First pick
Parc Léon Blum
Park or garden · 290 m outside the commune
0.5 ha
2.2 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy · Public domain6.3%woodland
Outdoors in Escaudain · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Escaudain is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 29 km across Escaudain (2.9 km per km²). No protected area reaches Escaudain; the nearest, Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park, is 1.4 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 6 km in Escaudain. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.2%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park, 1.4 km
Woodland
6.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
29 km
2.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.1 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Léon Blum
Throughout this page, the Nord median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Against French towns
How Escaudain compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Protected areas0.2%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
52out of 100
Woodland6.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
28out of 100
Footpaths2.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
72out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
67out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Escaudain has the 18th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,877 to 9,189 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Magny-le-Hongre (6.5 km per km²) to La Fare-les-Oliviers (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magny-le-Hongre Seine-et-Marne | 6.5 | 11% | 0% | 167 km |
| 2 | Grabels Hérault | 6.1 | 9.7% | 0% | 17 km |
| 3 | Capbreton Landes | 5.9 | 58% | 11% | On it |
| 4 | Les Angles Gard | 5.1 | 27% | 13% | 56 km |
| 5 | Bougival Yvelines | 4.8 | 20% | 0% | 140 km |
| 6 | Epagny Metz-Tessy Haute-Savoie | 4.4 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 7 | Tomblaine Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.3 | 2.9% | 0% | 368 km |
| 8 | Périgny Charente-Maritime | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0% | 4.1 km |
| 9 | Chartres-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.1 | 5.2% | 0% | 55 km |
| 10 | Quetigny Côte-d'Or | 4 | 0.7% | 0% | 406 km |
| 11 | Meulan-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 3.8 | 11% | 0.4% | 118 km |
| 12 | Velaux Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 29% | 25% | 19 km |
| 13 | Longvic Côte-d'Or | 3.1 | 3.4% | 0% | 406 km |
| 14 | Pibrac Haute-Garonne | 3 | 27% | 0% | 159 km |
| 15 | Quéven Morbihan | 2.9 | 26% | 5.9% | On it |
| 16 | Prévessin-Moëns Ain | 2.9 | 17% | 0% | 297 km |
| 17 | Chécy Loiret | 2.9 | 18% | 9.7% | 210 km |
| 18 | Escaudain Nord | 2.9 | 6.3% | 0.2% | 101 km |
| 19 | Breuillet Essonne | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 164 km |
| 20 | Irigny Rhône | 2.8 | 13% | 0% | 242 km |
| 21 | Launaguet Haute-Garonne | 2.7 | 7.2% | 0% | 149 km |
| 22 | Bellerive-sur-Allier Allier | 2.7 | 23% | 2.2% | 289 km |
| 23 | Cébazat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.6 | 5.6% | 0% | 263 km |
| 24 | Lamorlaye Oise | 2.5 | 42% | 100% | 125 km |
| 25 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Drôme | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 100 km |
| 26 | Boucau Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.2 | 26% | 5.8% | 3.1 km |
| 27 | Morières-lès-Avignon Vaucluse | 2.1 | 4.7% | 0% | 54 km |
| 28 | Roquevaire Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 11% | 66% | 15 km |
| 29 | Beuvry Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 14% | 0% | 61 km |
| 30 | Cornebarrieu Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 158 km |
| 31 | Scionzier Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 56% | 9.8% | 264 km |
| 32 | Varennes-Vauzelles Nièvre | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 336 km |
| 33 | Joigny Yonne | 0.9 | 70% | 0% | 274 km |
| 34 | Gonfreville-l'Orcher Seine-Maritime | 0.9 | 5.2% | 6.1% | On it |
| 35 | Veauche Loire | 0.9 | 1.5% | 3.3% | 223 km |
| 36 | Ussel Corrèze | 0.7 | 38% | 0.1% | 235 km |
| 37 | Le Thor Vaucluse | 0.7 | 0.9% | 7.2% | 54 km |
| 38 | Le Teich Gironde | 0.6 | 81% | 100% | On it |
| 39 | Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue Vaucluse | 0.5 | 2% | 11% | 61 km |
| 40 | Grenade Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 9.5% | 14% | 165 km |
| 41 | La Fare-les-Oliviers Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.2 | 0.8% | 44% | 23 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Escaudain
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Léon Blum leads, at 0.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin Public Francis Dupire
Park or garden
0.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Escaudain
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 1.4 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park
1.4 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.2%
Regional nature park0.2%
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
29 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Escaudain
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Footpaths
29 km
2.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.1 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
6.3%
about 0.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
EscaudainNord medianFrance median
Footpaths2.9
Hiking routes0.6
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
EscaudainNord medianFrance median
Woodland6.3%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 72% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 72% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. Every home in Escaudain is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit des Anciennes Carrières10 km
Denain, Ville d'Eau, de Charbon et d'Acier2.1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Escaudain: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Valenciennes, 8.4 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 47 | 51 | 42 | 58 | 63 | 66 | 68 | 52 | 60 | 64 | 69 |
April is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 69 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Escaudain →
Neighbors
Next to Escaudain
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
LourchesRœulxAbsconDenainHornaingNeuville-sur-EscautEscaudain
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Hornaing has at least twice as much protected land.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Escaudain
Is Escaudain in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park, 1.4 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Escaudain?
OpenStreetMap maps 29 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Escaudain is woodland?
6.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Escaudain near the sea?
No: the coast is 101 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Escaudain?
April to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.