First pick
Terril de Roeulx (169)
Park or garden · 30 m outside the commune
26 ha4 km of path
55 minto walk all 4 km of path
0.9 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Ottaviani Serge · CC BY-SA 4.00.4%woodland
Outdoors in Rœulx · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Rœulx is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Rœulx; the nearest, Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park, is 3.8 km from the town center. Rœulx has almost no mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 5 km across Rœulx (1.2 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: Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park, 3.8 km
Woodland
0.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
5 km
1.2 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
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Terril de Roeulx (169)
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 Rœulx?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyScarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park is 3.8 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.4% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Rœulx apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Rœulx 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
Woodland0.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
3out of 100
Footpaths1.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
39out 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
Rœulx has the 21st fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,715 to 3,772 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sochaux (5.8 km per km²) to Courtenay (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sochaux Doubs | 5.8 | 6.7% | 0% | 418 km |
| 2 | Bailly Yvelines | 5.5 | 31% | 0% | 140 km |
| 3 | Cabourg Calvados | 4.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 0.8 km |
| 4 | Doussard Haute-Savoie | 2.7 | 53% | 100% | 244 km |
| 5 | Pélussin Loire | 2.7 | 50% | 100% | 212 km |
| 6 | Bohars Finistère | 2.6 | 11% | 0% | 3.3 km |
| 7 | Lourches Nord | 2.5 | 5.6% | 0% | 103 km |
| 8 | La Ferté-Alais Essonne | 2.3 | 26% | 100% | 181 km |
| 9 | Les Rousses Jura | 2.3 | 52% | 100% | 321 km |
| 10 | Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort Gard | 2.2 | 38% | 58% | 47 km |
| 11 | Audierne Finistère | 2.2 | 16% | 12% | On it |
| 12 | Ganges Hérault | 2 | 30% | 65% | 48 km |
| 13 | Charlieu Loire | 1.7 | 5.4% | 0% | 289 km |
| 14 | Malville Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 17% | 1.9% | 24 km |
| 15 | Veyre-Monton Puy-de-Dôme | 1.5 | 6.6% | 1.6% | 245 km |
| 16 | Isneauville Seine-Maritime | 1.5 | 6.7% | 0% | 47 km |
| 17 | Torreilles Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.5 | 0.4% | 20% | On it |
| 18 | Saint-Ay Loiret | 1.3 | 6.3% | 10% | 203 km |
| 19 | Varennes-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 1.7% | 38% | 218 km |
| 20 | Échillais Charente-Maritime | 1.2 | 9% | 8.5% | On it |
| 21 | Rœulx Nord | 1.2 | 0.4% | 0% | 103 km |
| 22 | Plobannalec-Lesconil Finistère | 1.1 | 3.3% | 0% | On it |
| 23 | Saïx Tarn | 0.9 | 12% | 3.3% | 93 km |
| 24 | Houdan Yvelines | 0.9 | 1.9% | 0% | 115 km |
| 25 | Saint-Martin-la-Plaine Loire | 0.9 | 11% | 0% | 224 km |
| 26 | Brantôme en Périgord Dordogne | 0.8 | 48% | 20% | 104 km |
| 27 | Bouzonville Moselle | 0.8 | 27% | 2.8% | 332 km |
| 28 | Pujols Lot-et-Garonne | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 123 km |
| 29 | Objat Corrèze | 0.7 | 8.2% | 0% | 160 km |
| 30 | Bouxwiller Bas-Rhin | 0.7 | 11% | 0.3% | 418 km |
| 31 | Pannes Loiret | 0.7 | 8.9% | 0% | 233 km |
| 32 | Fougerolles-Saint-Valbert Haute-Saône | 0.7 | 36% | 100% | 429 km |
| 33 | Montamisé Vienne | 0.5 | 37% | 38% | 124 km |
| 34 | Sartène Corse-du-Sud | 0.4 | 17% | 39% | On it |
| 35 | Labastide-Saint-Pierre Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 3.4% | 1.5% | 169 km |
| 36 | Puiseux-en-France Val-d'Oise | 0.4 | 2.2% | 0% | 138 km |
| 37 | Plémet Côtes-d'Armor | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 35 km |
| 38 | Ribérac Dordogne | 0.3 | 9% | 12% | 77 km |
| 39 | Ardentes Indre | 0.3 | 24% | 0% | 231 km |
| 40 | Montreuil-Bellay Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 8.5% | 100% | 119 km |
| 41 | Courtenay Loiret | 0 | 20% | 0% | 253 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 Rœulx
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Terril de Roeulx (169) leads, at 26 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Léon Blum
Park or garden · 380 m outside the commune
0.5 ha
1.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 3.8 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
Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park
3.8 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
5 km of footpaths cross Rœulx
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
5 km
1.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.4%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RœulxNord medianFrance median
Footpaths1.2
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RœulxNord medianFrance median
Woodland0.4%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 61% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 97% 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 Rœulx is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit des Anciennes Carrières10 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Rœulx: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Valenciennes, 9.2 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 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 47 | 51 | 42 | 58 | 63 | 66 | 68 | 52 | 60 | 64 | 69 |
April is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 69 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Rœulx →
Neighbors
Next to Rœulx
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
LourchesNeuville-sur-EscautEscaudainBouchainAbsconDouchy-les-MinesRœulx
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rœulx | 0% | 0.4% | 1.2 |
| Lourches 3,734 · 1.6 km | 0% | 5.6% | 2.5 |
| Neuville-sur-Escaut 2,901 · 1.8 km | 0% | 0.8% | 0.4 |
| Escaudain 9,039 · 2.7 km | 0.2% | 6.3% | 2.9 |
| Bouchain 4,113 · 3.2 km | 0% | 18% | 1.8 |
| Abscon 4,108 · 3.7 km | 0% | 6.4% | 1.6 |
| Douchy-les-Mines 10,109 · 4.2 km | 0% | 11% | 1 |
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 Rœulx
Is Rœulx in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park, 3.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Rœulx?
OpenStreetMap maps 5 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Rœulx is woodland?
0.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Rœulx near the sea?
No: the coast is 103 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Rœulx?
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.