First pick
Bois de Montigny
Wood or forest · 10 m outside the commune
40 ha4 km of path
55 minto walk all 4 km of path
2.1 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Ottaviani · Public domain98%of the land protected
Outdoors in Lallaing · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Lallaing lies inside Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park
98% of Lallaing’s land lies in protected areas. Lallaing has 6 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 16 km across Lallaing (2.7 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
98%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
16%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
16 km
2.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.9 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Montigny
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Lallaing?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park98% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On waymarked routes6 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Lallaing apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Lallaing 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 areas98%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
91out of 100
Woodland16%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
55out of 100
Footpaths2.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
70out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
83out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Lallaing has the 11th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,213 to 6,361 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Ambilly (6.6 km per km²) to Fleurance (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ambilly Haute-Savoie | 6.6 | 1.9% | 0% | 287 km |
| 2 | Nandy Seine-et-Marne | 5.7 | 64% | 0% | 183 km |
| 3 | Le Mesnil-le-Roi Yvelines | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 133 km |
| 4 | Wimereux Pas-de-Calais | 3.9 | 3.6% | 100% | On it |
| 5 | Jassans-Riottier Ain | 3.9 | 9.6% | 0% | 274 km |
| 6 | Châtel-Guyon Puy-de-Dôme | 3.5 | 41% | 100% | 273 km |
| 7 | Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 3.3 | 15% | 0% | 255 km |
| 8 | Dompierre-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 2.8 | 6.2% | 0% | 7 km |
| 9 | Pont-de-Chéruy Isère | 2.8 | 12% | 0% | 257 km |
| 10 | Thyez Haute-Savoie | 2.7 | 29% | 2.7% | 267 km |
| 11 | Lallaing Nord | 2.7 | 16% | 98% | 89 km |
| 12 | Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Mesmin Loiret | 2.7 | 7% | 20% | 206 km |
| 13 | Louvroil Nord | 2.7 | 5.6% | 0% | 131 km |
| 14 | Cuges-les-Pins Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.6 | 37% | 100% | 10 km |
| 15 | Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.4 | 21% | 0% | 257 km |
| 16 | Solliès-Toucas Var | 2.4 | 61% | 56% | 11 km |
| 17 | Homécourt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.3 | 28% | 0% | 311 km |
| 18 | Avallon Yonne | 1.9 | 45% | 100% | 340 km |
| 19 | Pluneret Morbihan | 1.8 | 19% | 100% | On it |
| 20 | Bonchamp-lès-Laval Mayenne | 1.7 | 1.2% | 0% | 79 km |
| 21 | Châtenoy-le-Royal Saône-et-Loire | 1.5 | 16% | 0% | 364 km |
| 22 | Vaugneray Rhône | 1.5 | 31% | 0% | 246 km |
| 23 | Milhaud Gard | 1.4 | 30% | 8% | 31 km |
| 24 | Pont-Évêque Isère | 1.4 | 17% | 0% | 229 km |
| 25 | Mornant Rhône | 1.3 | 6.3% | 0% | 233 km |
| 26 | Arpajon-sur-Cère Cantal | 1.2 | 24% | 0.2% | 192 km |
| 27 | Vouneuil-sous-Biard Vienne | 1.2 | 28% | 0% | 112 km |
| 28 | Migné-Auxances Vienne | 1.1 | 7.4% | 16% | 116 km |
| 29 | Esvres Indre-et-Loire | 1 | 31% | 0% | 183 km |
| 30 | Mazan Vaucluse | 1 | 13% | 100% | 70 km |
| 31 | Loches Indre-et-Loire | 0.9 | 17% | 5% | 186 km |
| 32 | Terrasson-Lavilledieu Dordogne | 0.9 | 39% | 7.1% | 149 km |
| 33 | Bellevigny Vendée | 0.9 | 7.1% | 0% | 38 km |
| 34 | Noyal-sur-Vilaine Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 6.9% | 0% | 55 km |
| 35 | Mer Loir-et-Cher | 0.8 | 8.5% | 22% | 211 km |
| 36 | Malaunay Seine-Maritime | 0.7 | 24% | 0% | 43 km |
| 37 | Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx Landes | 0.7 | 51% | 33% | 9.2 km |
| 38 | Bons-en-Chablais Haute-Savoie | 0.7 | 38% | 5.3% | 290 km |
| 39 | Villemur-sur-Tarn Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 12% | 1.2% | 156 km |
| 40 | Belin-Béliet Gironde | 0.4 | 86% | 100% | 26 km |
| 41 | Fleurance Gers | 0.4 | 10% | 0% | 161 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 Lallaing
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Montigny leads, at 40 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du Galibot
Park or garden · 250 m outside the commune
6.9 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
2 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Des Arbandries
Park or garden
4.7 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
0.8 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
Protected land in and around Lallaing
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
98% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area98%
Regional nature park98%
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.
98% of Lallaing’s land is protected, more than in 91% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Nord has 0%. 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
16 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Lallaing
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
16 km
2.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.9 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
16%
about 1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LallaingNord medianFrance median
Footpaths2.7
Hiking routes1
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LallaingNord medianFrance median
Woodland16%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 70% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 55% 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 Lallaing is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 121B5.4 km
GR 1214.5 km
Boucle 4 - Le Douaisis à pas de Géants18 km
Au fil de la Scarpe13 km
Boucle du Vivier6.2 km
Boucle 5 - Au cœur de l'héritage religieux et minier de l'Ostrevent4.5 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Lallaing: GR 121B and GR 121.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lallaing: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Douai, 6.8 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 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 51 | 53 | 42 | 57 | 63 | 68 | 68 | 61 | 64 | 71 | 73 |
April is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 73 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Lallaing →
Neighbors
Next to Lallaing
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Montigny-en-OstreventRâchesWaziersPecquencourtFlines-lez-RachesGuesnainLallaing
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lallaing | 98% | 16% | 2.7 |
| Montigny-en-Ostrevent 4,495 · 2.6 km | 0.4% | 13% | 2.8 |
| Râches 2,672 · 3.8 km | 99% | 25% | 1.5 |
| Waziers 7,266 · 3.8 km | 0% | 4.9% | 2.2 |
| Pecquencourt 6,092 · 4 km | 9.5% | 24% | 4 |
| Flines-lez-Raches 5,745 · 4.3 km | 100% | 21% | 0.6 |
| Guesnain 4,635 · 4.4 km | 0% | 3% | 2.3 |
Râches 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 Lallaing
Is Lallaing in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Lallaing lies in Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park (98% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Lallaing?
OpenStreetMap maps 16 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Lallaing is woodland?
16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lallaing near the sea?
No: the coast is 89 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lallaing?
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.