First pick
Jardin de la Paix
Park or garden
5.3 ha1.3 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Halluin
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jean-Christophe Destailleur · CC BY-SA 3.04.8%woodland
Outdoors in Halluin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Halluin is within 800 m of a park or wood
32 km of footpaths cross Halluin (2.5 km per km²). 4.8% of Halluin is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Halluin; the nearest, Le Héron nature reserve, is 16 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Le Héron nature reserve, 16 km
Woodland
4.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
32 km
2.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.9 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
7
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Jardin de la Paix
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 Halluin 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%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland4.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
22out of 100
Footpaths2.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
66out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
64out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Halluin has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (20,143 to 21,379 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sceaux (11.7 km per km²) to L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (0.8 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sceaux Hauts-de-Seine | 11.7 | 17% | 0% | 154 km |
| 2 | Chaville Hauts-de-Seine | 8.3 | 46% | 0% | 148 km |
| 3 | Mons-en-Barœul Nord | 7.5 | 2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 4 | Mont-Saint-Aignan Seine-Maritime | 7.3 | 12% | 0% | 50 km |
| 5 | La Celle-Saint-Cloud Yvelines | 6.6 | 29% | 0% | 142 km |
| 6 | Saint-Cyr-l'École Yvelines | 6.3 | 7.8% | 0% | 143 km |
| 7 | Saint-Gratien Val-d'Oise | 6 | 0.7% | 0% | 137 km |
| 8 | Maurepas Yvelines | 5.8 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 9 | Carrières-sous-Poissy Yvelines | 5.3 | 5.6% | 0% | 129 km |
| 10 | Coudekerque-Branche Nord | 5.1 | 14% | 0% | 2.2 km |
| 11 | Fougères Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 33 km |
| 12 | Joinville-le-Pont Val-de-Marne | 4.4 | 1.7% | 0% | 158 km |
| 13 | Chilly-Mazarin Essonne | 4.2 | 2.8% | 0% | 163 km |
| 14 | Bouguenais Loire-Atlantique | 4 | 18% | 8.4% | 33 km |
| 15 | La Chapelle-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 3.8 | 20% | 1.9% | 43 km |
| 16 | Lingolsheim Bas-Rhin | 3.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 450 km |
| 17 | Ozoir-la-Ferrière Seine-et-Marne | 3.6 | 44% | 0% | 172 km |
| 18 | Forbach Moselle | 3.5 | 32% | 0% | 359 km |
| 19 | Croix Nord | 3.4 | 4.6% | 0% | 61 km |
| 20 | Le Plessis-Trévise Val-de-Marne | 3.4 | 9.3% | 0% | 163 km |
| 21 | Denain Nord | 3.2 | 5.9% | 0.1% | 103 km |
| 22 | Cugnaux Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 6.8% | 0% | 151 km |
| 23 | Wasquehal Nord | 3.1 | 4.7% | 0% | 60 km |
| 24 | Bourg-la-Reine Hauts-de-Seine | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 155 km |
| 25 | Le Creusot Saône-et-Loire | 3 | 23% | 0% | 361 km |
| 26 | Concarneau Finistère | 2.8 | 13% | 0.3% | On it |
| 27 | Grande-Synthe Nord | 2.8 | 5.3% | 7.4% | On it |
| 28 | Plaisance-du-Touch Haute-Garonne | 2.7 | 7.9% | 2.1% | 156 km |
| 29 | Sarreguemines Moselle | 2.6 | 32% | 0.9% | 374 km |
| 30 | Chaumont Haute-Marne | 2.6 | 52% | 0.3% | 342 km |
| 31 | Villeneuve-le-Roi Val-de-Marne | 2.6 | 0.9% | 0% | 164 km |
| 32 | Saint-Genis-Laval Rhône | 2.6 | 6% | 0% | 244 km |
| 33 | Beaune Côte-d'Or | 2.6 | 16% | 25% | 389 km |
| 34 | Halluin Nord | 2.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 50 km |
| 35 | Carquefou Loire-Atlantique | 2.5 | 14% | 5% | 47 km |
| 36 | Lannion Côtes-d'Armor | 2.3 | 15% | 5.9% | On it |
| 37 | Givors Rhône | 1.7 | 27% | 0.2% | 232 km |
| 38 | Montaigu-Vendée Vendée | 1.2 | 7.4% | 0% | 51 km |
| 39 | Mitry-Mory Seine-et-Marne | 1 | 4.8% | 0% | 151 km |
| 40 | Saint-Mandé Val-de-Marne | 1 | 0% | 0% | 154 km |
| 41 | L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Vaucluse | 0.8 | 4.8% | 7.3% | 54 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 Halluin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin de la Paix leads, at 5.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Espace Naturel du Colbras
Wood or forest
7.7 ha1.6 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.6 km of path
1.4 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Diefhondbos
Wood or forest · 290 m outside the commune
6.5 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
2.1 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de Boulogne
Park or garden · 220 m outside the commune
0.7 ha0.4 km of path
1.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Park Oude Leielaan
Park or garden · 80 m outside the commune
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
1.9 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Le Héron nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 16 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Le Héron nature reserve
16 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
32 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Halluin
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
32 km
2.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.9 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
4.8%
about 0.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
HalluinNord medianFrance median
Footpaths2.5
Hiking routes0.5
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
HalluinNord medianFrance median
Woodland4.8%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 78% 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 Halluin is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
9 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
E27.5 km
GR 5A Wandelronde van Vlaanderen (Zuid)7.5 km
Circuit Auger de Bousbecque12 km
Menen - Libercourt7.6 km
Boucle de la Fraude du Tabac4.7 km
Circuit de la Montagne1.6 km
Erfgoedwandelroute Menen1.5 km
Via Brugensis1.2 km
De Yvonne Serruys wandeling0.4 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Halluin: E2 and GR 5A Wandelronde van Vlaanderen (Zuid).
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Halluin: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lille-Lesquin, 23 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) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 51 | 52 | 45 | 62 | 64 | 68 | 71 | 57 | 64 | 75 | 73 |
April is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Halluin →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Halluin
Named gardens in the commune.
Parc arboretum du manoir aux loupsIn Halluin
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Halluin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BousbecqueRoncqNeuville-en-FerrainWervicq-SudLinsellesTourcoingHalluin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halluin | 0% | 4.8% | 2.5 | 50 km |
| Bousbecque 4,978 · 3.7 km | 0% | 1.4% | 1.5 | 49 km |
| Roncq 14,075 · 3.7 km | 0% | 2.5% | 2.3 | 53 km |
| Neuville-en-Ferrain 10,002 · 4.2 km | 0% | 5.6% | 2.4 | 54 km |
| Wervicq-Sud 5,426 · 5.4 km | 0% | 3% | 1.8 | 48 km |
| Linselles 8,161 · 5.5 km | 0% | 0.7% | 1 | 53 km |
| Tourcoing 98,772 · 6.4 km | 0% | 1.1% | 3.9 | 57 km |
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 Halluin
Is Halluin in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Le Héron nature reserve, 16 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Halluin?
OpenStreetMap maps 32 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Halluin is woodland?
4.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Halluin near the sea?
No: the coast is 50 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Halluin?
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 4, 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.