First pick
Forêt de Nieppe - Bois Clébert
Wood or forest · 10 m outside the commune
155 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
4.7 km southfrom the center
Drève du Baron
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Felouch Kotek · CC BY-SA 3.00.7%woodland
Outdoors in Hazebrouck · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Hazebrouck is within 800 m of a park or wood
0.7% of Hazebrouck is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Hazebrouck; the nearest, Caps et Marais d’Opale Regional Nature Park, is 10 km from the town center. 48 km of footpaths cross Hazebrouck (1.7 km per km²). 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: Caps et Marais d’Opale Regional Nature Park, 10 km
Woodland
0.7%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
48 km
1.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 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: Forêt de Nieppe - Bois Clébert
The sea
37 km
from the town center to the coast
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 Hazebrouck 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
Woodland0.7%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
5out of 100
Footpaths1.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
52out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Hazebrouck has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (21,238 to 22,567 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sèvres (8.9 km per km²) to Chemillé-en-Anjou (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sèvres Hauts-de-Seine | 8.9 | 24% | 0% | 147 km |
| 2 | Arcueil Val-de-Marne | 8.8 | 3.2% | 0% | 153 km |
| 3 | La Madeleine Nord | 8.6 | 0.6% | 0% | 61 km |
| 4 | Fontaine Isère | 8.1 | 37% | 39% | 204 km |
| 5 | Gif-sur-Yvette Essonne | 7.8 | 28% | 60% | 153 km |
| 6 | Montigny-lès-Cormeilles Val-d'Oise | 7 | 17% | 0% | 130 km |
| 7 | Saint-Cyr-l'École Yvelines | 6.3 | 7.8% | 0% | 143 km |
| 8 | Saint-Gratien Val-d'Oise | 6 | 0.7% | 0% | 137 km |
| 9 | Longjumeau Essonne | 5.9 | 4.2% | 0% | 163 km |
| 10 | Saint-Michel-sur-Orge Essonne | 5.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 168 km |
| 11 | Loos Nord | 5 | 4.6% | 0% | 63 km |
| 12 | Fleury-les-Aubrais Loiret | 4.9 | 16% | 0% | 203 km |
| 13 | Montigny-lès-Metz Moselle | 4.9 | 3.4% | 0% | 329 km |
| 14 | Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon Rhône | 4.8 | 10% | 0% | 249 km |
| 15 | Bruay-la-Buissière Pas-de-Calais | 4.5 | 22% | 0% | 61 km |
| 16 | Lagny-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 4 | 5.7% | 0% | 163 km |
| 17 | Montmorency Val-d'Oise | 3.8 | 20% | 0% | 136 km |
| 18 | Morsang-sur-Orge Essonne | 3.8 | 3.4% | 0% | 168 km |
| 19 | Gardanne Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.8 | 38% | 0% | 16 km |
| 20 | Achères Yvelines | 3.7 | 3.4% | 0% | 129 km |
| 21 | Ozoir-la-Ferrière Seine-et-Marne | 3.6 | 44% | 0% | 172 km |
| 22 | Neuilly-Plaisance Seine-Saint-Denis | 3.6 | 14% | 14% | 156 km |
| 23 | Allauch Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 28% | 65% | 9.7 km |
| 24 | Le Petit-Quevilly Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 0% | 0% | 51 km |
| 25 | Nogent-sur-Oise Oise | 3.3 | 19% | 0% | 115 km |
| 26 | Voiron Isère | 3.3 | 28% | 0% | 220 km |
| 27 | Mandelieu-la-Napoule Alpes-Maritimes | 2.9 | 48% | 0.1% | On it |
| 28 | Dax Landes | 2.5 | 21% | 37% | 30 km |
| 29 | Mantes-la-Ville Yvelines | 2.5 | 7.2% | 0% | 111 km |
| 30 | Oyonnax Ain | 2.4 | 59% | 0% | 312 km |
| 31 | Les Pennes-Mirabeau Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 11% | 0% | 4.3 km |
| 32 | Montereau-Fault-Yonne Seine-et-Marne | 2.2 | 4.3% | 8.8% | 217 km |
| 33 | Millau Aveyron | 2 | 35% | 100% | 91 km |
| 34 | Hazebrouck Nord | 1.7 | 0.7% | 0% | 37 km |
| 35 | Givors Rhône | 1.7 | 27% | 0.2% | 232 km |
| 36 | Épernay Marne | 1.7 | 44% | 7.2% | 208 km |
| 37 | Auch Gers | 1.6 | 18% | 0% | 161 km |
| 38 | Gujan-Mestras Gironde | 1.4 | 48% | 0.3% | On it |
| 39 | Abbeville Somme | 1.3 | 11% | 100% | 14 km |
| 40 | Villeneuve-sur-Lot Lot-et-Garonne | 0.5 | 11% | 0.9% | 123 km |
| 41 | Chemillé-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 4.3% | 0% | 98 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 Hazebrouck
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Nieppe - Bois Clébert leads, at 155 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois des Huit Rues
Wood or forest · 190 m outside the commune
69 ha5.2 km of path
1 h 10 minto walk all 5.2 km of path
3.9 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Forêt de Nieppe - Bois Flamingue
Wood or forest
84 ha1.7 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.7 km of path
4.7 km south-eastfrom the center
Drève du Train de Loos
Directionsto a point inside
Forêt de Nieppe - Bois d'Hazebrouck
Wood or forest · 0 m outside the commune
21 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
4.4 km south-eastfrom the center
Drève du Baron
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin Public
Park or garden
2.7 ha1.4 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Hazebrouck
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Château de l'Orme
Park or garden
1 ha
1 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Caps et Marais d’Opale Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 10 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
Caps et Marais d’Opale Regional Nature Park
10 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
48 km of footpaths cross Hazebrouck
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
48 km
1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.7%
about 0.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
HazebrouckNord medianFrance median
Footpaths1.7
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
HazebrouckNord medianFrance median
Woodland0.7%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 52% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 95% 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 Hazebrouck is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Hazebrouck: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Watten, 26 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 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 70 | 58 | 50 | 44 | 56 | 59 | 67 | 73 | 72 | 84 | 97 | 93 |
April is the driest month (44 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 97 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Hazebrouck →
Neighbors
Next to Hazebrouck
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MorbecqueVieux-BerquinSteenvoordeMervilleSaint-VenantIsberguesHazebrouck
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hazebrouck | 0% | 0.7% | 1.7 | 37 km |
| Morbecque 2,573 · 4.2 km | 0% | 52% | 1.5 | 41 km |
| Vieux-Berquin 2,628 · 7.4 km | 0% | 14% | 0.1 | 42 km |
| Steenvoorde 4,332 · 10 km | 0% | 1.9% | 1.8 | 29 km |
| Merville 9,808 · 11 km | 0% | 2% | 1 | 48 km |
| Saint-Venant 2,999 · 11 km | 0% | 2.5% | 0.8 | 48 km |
| Isbergues 8,650 · 13 km | 0% | 0.8% | 1.1 | 47 km |
Morbecque is more wooded.
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 Hazebrouck
Is Hazebrouck in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Caps et Marais d’Opale Regional Nature Park, 10 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Hazebrouck?
OpenStreetMap maps 48 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Hazebrouck is woodland?
0.7% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Hazebrouck near the sea?
No: the coast is 37 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Hazebrouck?
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.