First pick
Forêt Domaniale de Phalempin
Wood or forest
643 ha58.6 km of path
13 hto walk all 58.6 km of path
6 km south-eastfrom the center
Drève d'AttichesPetit Sentier du Bois d'HameteDrève du Parc+5 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: VVVCFFrance · CC BY-SA 4.03.3%woodland
Outdoors in Seclin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Seclin is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 3.3% of Seclin. No protected area reaches Seclin; the nearest, Les "Cinq Tailles" (Natura 2000), is 6.5 km from the town center. Seclin has 1 km of waymarked hiking routes. 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", 6.5 km
Woodland
3.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
31 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.4 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 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 Seclin?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyLes "Cinq Tailles" (Natura 2000) is 6.5 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland3.3% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Seclin apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Seclin 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
Woodland3.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
16out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
53out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
29out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Seclin has the 19th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (12,937 to 13,606 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-André-lez-Lille (8.6 km per km²) to Gien (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-André-lez-Lille Nord | 8.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 59 km |
| 2 | Anzin Nord | 5.4 | 3.1% | 0.5% | 103 km |
| 3 | Lons Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 4.2 | 7.7% | 9% | 92 km |
| 4 | Freyming-Merlebach Moselle | 4.1 | 19% | 0% | 358 km |
| 5 | Saint-Jean-de-Védas Hérault | 3.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 9 km |
| 6 | Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Gard | 3.1 | 13% | 22% | 58 km |
| 7 | Val-de-Reuil Eure | 3.1 | 16% | 24% | 64 km |
| 8 | Mouvaux Nord | 3 | 3.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 9 | Les Ponts-de-Cé Maine-et-Loire | 2.8 | 6.5% | 33% | 120 km |
| 10 | Lourdes Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.8 | 52% | 6.8% | 129 km |
| 11 | Kingersheim Haut-Rhin | 2.7 | 13% | 0% | 445 km |
| 12 | Plougastel-Daoulas Finistère | 2.6 | 28% | 6.5% | On it |
| 13 | Canet-en-Roussillon Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.6 | 1.1% | 50% | On it |
| 14 | Outreau Pas-de-Calais | 2.6 | 4.8% | 0% | 1.7 km |
| 15 | Betton Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.5 | 3.3% | 0.2% | 43 km |
| 16 | Guéret Creuse | 2.5 | 39% | 0.1% | 220 km |
| 17 | Berck Pas-de-Calais | 2.3 | 19% | 29% | On it |
| 18 | Claye-Souilly Seine-et-Marne | 2.3 | 30% | 0% | 155 km |
| 19 | Tarnos Landes | 2.3 | 41% | 21% | On it |
| 20 | Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez Vendée | 2.3 | 12% | 48% | On it |
| 21 | Plouzané Finistère | 2.2 | 8% | 0% | On it |
| 22 | Bonneville Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 47% | 5.2% | 269 km |
| 23 | Seclin Nord | 1.8 | 3.3% | 0% | 69 km |
| 24 | Auriol Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 49% | 75% | 19 km |
| 25 | Argentan Orne | 1.7 | 2.2% | 11% | 62 km |
| 26 | Noyon Oise | 1.6 | 19% | 18% | 116 km |
| 27 | Cuers Var | 1.5 | 32% | 0% | 16 km |
| 28 | Amboise Indre-et-Loire | 1.4 | 58% | 5% | 203 km |
| 29 | Fonsorbes Haute-Garonne | 1.4 | 8.5% | 1.7% | 160 km |
| 30 | Autun Saône-et-Loire | 1.3 | 43% | 100% | 377 km |
| 31 | Genas Rhône | 1.3 | 2.3% | 0% | 252 km |
| 32 | Tergnier Aisne | 1.2 | 9% | 4.8% | 130 km |
| 33 | Amilly Loiret | 1.2 | 33% | 0% | 240 km |
| 34 | Moissac Tarn-et-Garonne | 1 | 27% | 2.5% | 167 km |
| 35 | Tulle Corrèze | 1 | 34% | 0% | 187 km |
| 36 | Cusset Allier | 0.9 | 18% | 1.4% | 290 km |
| 37 | Monteux Vaucluse | 0.7 | 2.6% | 26% | 65 km |
| 38 | Petite-Île Réunion | 0.6 | 22% | 4.9% | On it |
| 39 | Bras-Panon Réunion | 0.6 | 69% | 83% | On it |
| 40 | Graulhet Tarn | 0.3 | 9.2% | 0% | 116 km |
| 41 | Gien Loiret | 0.3 | 35% | 1.8% | 256 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 Seclin
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.
Bois d'Avelin
Wood or forest · 120 m outside the commune
60 ha
3.3 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des époux Rosenberg
Park or garden
3.2 ha
0.6 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Fort de Seclin
Wood or forest
3.4 ha0.3 km of path
1.8 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
Les "Cinq Tailles" is the nearest protected area, 6.5 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"
6.5 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
31 km of footpaths cross Seclin
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
31 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.4 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
3.3%
about 0.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SeclinNord medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes0.1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SeclinNord medianFrance median
Woodland3.3%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 53% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 84% 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 Seclin is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 121B11 km
Menen - Libercourt8.4 km
Circuit de Phalempin5.4 km
GR 121B passes within 2 km of Seclin.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Seclin: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lille-Lesquin, 5.3 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) | 8.4 | 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 Seclin →
Neighbors
Next to Seclin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GondecourtTemplemarsPhalempinHouplin-AncoisneAvelinWattigniesSeclin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seclin | 0% | 3.3% | 1.8 |
| Gondecourt 4,148 · 3.4 km | 0% | 4.8% | 1.2 |
| Templemars 3,669 · 3.4 km | 0% | 0.6% | 2.1 |
| Phalempin 4,847 · 3.7 km | 0% | 32% | 4 |
| Houplin-Ancoisne 3,326 · 3.8 km | 0% | 4.4% | 3 |
| Avelin 2,561 · 4 km | 0% | 6.1% | 0.6 |
| Wattignies 15,525 · 4.6 km | 0% | 1.5% | 3.5 |
Phalempin 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 Seclin
Is Seclin in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Les "Cinq Tailles", 6.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Seclin?
OpenStreetMap maps 31 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 1 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Seclin is woodland?
3.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Seclin near the sea?
No: the coast is 69 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Seclin?
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.