First pick
Parc du petit Candy
Park or garden
2.3 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
0.9 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: VVVCFFrance · CC BY-SA 4.00.8%woodland
Outdoors in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 0.8% of Quesnoy-sur-Deûle. No protected area reaches Quesnoy-sur-Deûle; the nearest, Le Héron nature reserve, is 14 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 15 km across Quesnoy-sur-Deûle (1 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: Le Héron nature reserve, 14 km
Woodland
0.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.8 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 du petit Candy
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 Quesnoy-sur-Deûle 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
Woodland0.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
6out of 100
Footpaths1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
33out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
49out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Quesnoy-sur-Deûle has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,734 to 6,874 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Noyelles-sous-Lens (5 km per km²) to Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noyelles-sous-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 5 | 10% | 0% | 77 km |
| 2 | Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes Seine-et-Marne | 4.3 | 11% | 0% | 164 km |
| 3 | Saint-Alban-Leysse Savoie | 4.2 | 44% | 75% | 233 km |
| 4 | Domène Isère | 3.8 | 24% | 0% | 202 km |
| 5 | Lutterbach Haut-Rhin | 3.7 | 43% | 12% | 442 km |
| 6 | Puilboreau Charente-Maritime | 3.5 | 1.5% | 0% | 3.8 km |
| 7 | Liancourt Oise | 3.4 | 26% | 0% | 110 km |
| 8 | Carnoux-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 31% | 0% | 5 km |
| 9 | Loos-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.6% | 0% | 71 km |
| 10 | Saint-Julien-les-Villas Aube | 2.9 | 7.6% | 0% | 275 km |
| 11 | Montfort-sur-Meu Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.5 | 30% | 0% | 40 km |
| 12 | Nyons Drôme | 2.5 | 44% | 100% | 103 km |
| 13 | Moëlan-sur-Mer Finistère | 2.5 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 14 | Gaillon Eure | 2 | 19% | 13% | 77 km |
| 15 | Beuvrages Nord | 1.9 | 4.2% | 99% | 102 km |
| 16 | Les Essarts-le-Roi Yvelines | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 137 km |
| 17 | Auvers-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 122 km |
| 18 | Poussan Hérault | 1.5 | 2.1% | 38% | 8.5 km |
| 19 | Acigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.4 | 11% | 0% | 52 km |
| 20 | Divion Pas-de-Calais | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 57 km |
| 21 | Le Coteau Loire | 1.4 | 0% | 0% | 274 km |
| 22 | Plouguerneau Finistère | 1.4 | 2.5% | 10% | On it |
| 23 | Laudun-l'Ardoise Gard | 1.3 | 19% | 2.1% | 73 km |
| 24 | Douvaine Haute-Savoie | 1.3 | 22% | 0.9% | 296 km |
| 25 | Meyreuil Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 45% | 0% | 20 km |
| 26 | Brindas Rhône | 1.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 245 km |
| 27 | Ploeren Morbihan | 1.1 | 13% | 96% | 3.1 km |
| 28 | Saint-Jean-d'Angély Charente-Maritime | 1 | 8% | 0% | 35 km |
| 29 | Quesnoy-sur-Deûle Nord | 1 | 0.8% | 0% | 52 km |
| 30 | Cambo-les-Bains Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.9 | 30% | 15% | 18 km |
| 31 | Veigné Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 35% | 0% | 179 km |
| 32 | Les Abrets en Dauphiné Isère | 0.7 | 17% | 0% | 238 km |
| 33 | Itteville Essonne | 0.6 | 33% | 7.1% | 177 km |
| 34 | Le Cateau-Cambrésis Nord | 0.6 | 1.4% | 0% | 130 km |
| 35 | Merville Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.8% | 5.4% | 163 km |
| 36 | Chabeuil Drôme | 0.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 162 km |
| 37 | Loudun Vienne | 0.3 | 6.4% | 0% | 122 km |
| 38 | Essarts-en-Bocage Vendée | 0.3 | 4.1% | 0% | 46 km |
| 39 | Caussade Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 172 km |
| 40 | Le Controis-en-Sologne Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 24% | 6.7% | 229 km |
| 41 | Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche Haute-Vienne | 0.1 | 24% | 0% | 151 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 Quesnoy-sur-Deûle
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du petit Candy leads, at 2.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Jocelyne Mahieux
Park or garden
1.9 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
Centralin the middle of Quesnoy-sur-Deûle
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, 14 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
14 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
15 km of footpaths cross Quesnoy-sur-Deûle
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
15 km
1 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.8 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
0.8%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Quesnoy-sur-DeûleNord medianFrance median
Footpaths1
Hiking routes0.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Quesnoy-sur-DeûleNord medianFrance median
Woodland0.8%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 67% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 94% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Quesnoy-sur-Deûle’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 121B9.1 km
Circuit du Genièvre8.5 km
Les Becques de Comines5.6 km
Circuit des Chouettes5.4 km
Circuit des Tilleuls2.1 km
GR 121B passes within 2 km of Quesnoy-sur-Deûle.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lille-Lesquin, 17 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 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 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 Quesnoy-sur-Deûle →
Neighbors
Next to Quesnoy-sur-Deûle
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
VerlinghemFrelinghienWambrechiesCominesPérenchiesMarquette-lez-LilleQuesnoy-sur-Deûle
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quesnoy-sur-Deûle | 0% | 0.8% | 1 | 52 km |
| Verlinghem 2,682 · 3.6 km | 0% | 6.3% | 1.1 | 55 km |
| Frelinghien 2,609 · 4 km | 0% | 1% | 0.7 | 51 km |
| Wambrechies 11,012 · 4.5 km | 0% | 2.9% | 1.9 | 57 km |
| Comines 12,731 · 4.9 km | 0% | 2.3% | 0.9 | 48 km |
| Pérenchies 8,455 · 5.5 km | 0% | 0.9% | 2.5 | 56 km |
| Marquette-lez-Lille 12,622 · 6 km | 0% | 4.2% | 5.6 | 58 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 Quesnoy-sur-Deûle
Is Quesnoy-sur-Deûle in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Le Héron nature reserve, 14 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 5 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Quesnoy-sur-Deûle is woodland?
0.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Quesnoy-sur-Deûle near the sea?
No: the coast is 52 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle?
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.