First pick
Forêt Domaniale de Phalempin
Wood or forest
643 ha58.6 km of path
13 hto walk all 58.6 km of path
4 km south-eastfrom the center
Drève d'AttichesPetit Sentier du Bois d'HameteDrève du Parc+5 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Pierre André Leclercq · CC BY 4.032%woodland
Outdoors in Phalempin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Phalempin has more footpaths per km² than 8 in 10 French towns
32 km of footpaths cross Phalempin (4 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 5 km in Phalempin. No protected area reaches Phalempin; the nearest, Les "Cinq Tailles" (Natura 2000), is 3.9 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: Les "Cinq Tailles", 3.9 km
Woodland
32%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
32 km
4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.5 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt Domaniale de Phalempin
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 Phalempin?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths4 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.A wooded commune32% mapped woodland, more than in 78% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyLes "Cinq Tailles" (Natura 2000) is 3.9 km from the town center.
What sets Phalempin apart: its footpaths, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Phalempin 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
Woodland32%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
78out of 100
Footpaths4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
84out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
71out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Phalempin has the 3rd most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,811 to 4,884 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Quiberon (6.6 km per km²) to Bonneval (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quiberon Morbihan | 6.6 | 2.8% | 18% | On it |
| 2 | Rosières-près-Troyes Aube | 4 | 9.4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 3 | Phalempin Nord | 4 | 32% | 0% | 72 km |
| 4 | Ceyreste Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 42% | 49% | 2.9 km |
| 5 | L'Île-d'Yeu Vendée | 2.8 | 21% | 44% | On it |
| 6 | La Turballe Loire-Atlantique | 2.7 | 13% | 24% | On it |
| 7 | Die Drôme | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 150 km |
| 8 | Uchaud Gard | 2.1 | 32% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 9 | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Haut-Rhin | 2 | 76% | 100% | 450 km |
| 10 | Paron Yonne | 2 | 26% | 1.2% | 249 km |
| 11 | Volvic Puy-de-Dôme | 1.9 | 57% | 100% | 269 km |
| 12 | Plateau d'Hauteville Ain | 1.9 | 65% | 1.2% | 284 km |
| 13 | Lambres-lez-Douai Nord | 1.8 | 4.4% | 0% | 90 km |
| 14 | Robion Vaucluse | 1.8 | 24% | 100% | 48 km |
| 15 | Charly Rhône | 1.7 | 0.2% | 0% | 239 km |
| 16 | La Voulte-sur-Rhône Ardèche | 1.5 | 15% | 33% | 149 km |
| 17 | Le Quesnoy Nord | 1.4 | 2.1% | 100% | 120 km |
| 18 | Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues Gard | 1.3 | 49% | 0% | 67 km |
| 19 | Montbazon Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 29% | 0% | 178 km |
| 20 | Blendecques Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 18% | 84% | 32 km |
| 21 | Pignans Var | 1 | 50% | 43% | 20 km |
| 22 | Desvres Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 56% | 100% | 18 km |
| 23 | Milizac-Guipronvel Finistère | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 9.1 km |
| 24 | Cysoing Nord | 0.8 | 26% | 0% | 74 km |
| 25 | Tinchebray-Bocage Orne | 0.8 | 4.9% | 0% | 48 km |
| 26 | Fagnières Marne | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 235 km |
| 27 | Écommoy Sarthe | 0.5 | 28% | 0.2% | 151 km |
| 28 | La Côte-Saint-André Isère | 0.5 | 10% | 0% | 218 km |
| 29 | Amplepuis Rhône | 0.4 | 29% | 0% | 269 km |
| 30 | Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule Allier | 0.4 | 6.2% | 9.3% | 311 km |
| 31 | Cazères Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 4.1% | 11% | 162 km |
| 32 | Conches-en-Ouche Eure | 0.4 | 51% | 0% | 68 km |
| 33 | Saint-Jean-de-Bournay Isère | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 229 km |
| 34 | Monnaie Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 197 km |
| 35 | Bornel Oise | 0.3 | 33% | 0.1% | 112 km |
| 36 | Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac Gironde | 0.3 | 6.2% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 37 | Vic-en-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 0.3 | 20% | 2.2% | 125 km |
| 38 | Bazas Gironde | 0.2 | 30% | 2.9% | 69 km |
| 39 | Legé Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 33 km |
| 40 | Vitry-en-Artois Pas-de-Calais | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 90 km |
| 41 | Bonneval Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 9.3% | 30% | 159 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 Phalempin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt Domaniale de Phalempin leads, at 643 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Les "Cinq Tailles" is the nearest protected area, 3.9 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Les "Cinq Tailles"
3.9 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
Footpaths and woods in Phalempin
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
4 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.5 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
32%
about 2.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PhalempinNord medianFrance median
Footpaths4
Hiking routes0.7
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PhalempinNord medianFrance median
Woodland32%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 84% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more 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. 99% of Phalempin’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
8 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 121B12 km
Menen - Libercourt10 km
Circuit de Phalempin9.4 km
Terril 81A - Libercourt5.3 km
A l’Orée du Bois5 km
Béthune - Terril du Téléphérique1.7 km
Terril du Téléphérique - Terril 81A1.5 km
Libercourt - Terril du Téléphérique1.5 km
GR 121B passes within 2 km of Phalempin.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Phalempin: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lille-Lesquin, 8.3 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 | 15.5 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 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 Phalempin →
Neighbors
Next to Phalempin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
SeclinWahagniesLibercourtGondecourtCarvinAllennes-les-MaraisPhalempin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phalempin | 0% | 32% | 4 |
| Seclin 13,261 · 3.7 km | 0% | 3.3% | 1.8 |
| Wahagnies 2,613 · 3.7 km | 0% | 30% | 1.9 |
| Libercourt 7,973 · 3.9 km | 0% | 23% | 4.5 |
| Gondecourt 4,148 · 4.1 km | 0% | 4.8% | 1.2 |
| Carvin 17,909 · 5.1 km | 0% | 5.3% | 2.5 |
| Allennes-les-Marais 3,545 · 5.2 km | 0% | 7.5% | 2.2 |
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 Phalempin
Is Phalempin in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Les "Cinq Tailles", 3.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Phalempin?
OpenStreetMap maps 32 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 5 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Phalempin is woodland?
32% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Phalempin near the sea?
No: the coast is 72 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Phalempin?
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 8, 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.