First pick
Parc du Lion
Park or garden
39 ha7.6 km of path
1 h 40 minto walk all 7.6 km of path
0.7 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jamain · CC BY-SA 4.03.3%woodland
Outdoors in Wattrelos · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Wattrelos is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 42 km across Wattrelos (3.1 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 3.3% of Wattrelos. No protected area reaches Wattrelos; the nearest, Le Héron nature reserve, is 7.6 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: Le Héron nature reserve, 7.6 km
Woodland
3.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
42 km
3.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.6 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
6
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du Lion
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 Wattrelos?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyLe Héron nature reserve is 7.6 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland3.3% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Wattrelos apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Wattrelos 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
Footpaths3.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
75out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
43out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Wattrelos has the 15th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (38,168 to 43,597 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 6e (8.4 km per km²) to Saint-Benoît (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 6e Paris | 8.4 | 1.7% | 0% | 149 km |
| 2 | Bron Rhône | 7.1 | 6.1% | 0% | 251 km |
| 3 | Villepinte Seine-Saint-Denis | 7 | 15% | 16% | 149 km |
| 4 | Marseille 6e Bouches-du-Rhône | 6.8 | 1.2% | 0% | 1 km |
| 5 | Neuilly-sur-Marne Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.6 | 9.5% | 11% | 157 km |
| 6 | Rezé Loire-Atlantique | 6.6 | 7% | 3.6% | 37 km |
| 7 | Arras Pas-de-Calais | 6.5 | 3.4% | 0% | 78 km |
| 8 | Colomiers Haute-Garonne | 6.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 155 km |
| 9 | Stains Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.3 | 6.9% | 14% | 142 km |
| 10 | Boulogne-sur-Mer Pas-de-Calais | 5.8 | 1.3% | 0% | On it |
| 11 | Chartres Eure-et-Loir | 5.5 | 2.4% | 0% | 138 km |
| 12 | Bagnolet Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.5 | 1.4% | 3.6% | 151 km |
| 13 | Valenciennes Nord | 5.2 | 6.6% | 0.2% | 105 km |
| 14 | Caluire-et-Cuire Rhône | 5.1 | 9.1% | 0.1% | 255 km |
| 15 | Gagny Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.3 | 9.6% | 0.5% | 155 km |
| 16 | Oullins-Pierre-Bénite Rhône | 4.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 246 km |
| 17 | Pontault-Combault Seine-et-Marne | 4.1 | 27% | 0% | 166 km |
| 18 | Angoulême Charente | 4.1 | 14% | 3.6% | 75 km |
| 19 | Anglet Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 4 | 18% | 4.5% | On it |
| 20 | Garges-lès-Gonesse Val-d'Oise | 4 | 8.7% | 0% | 141 km |
| 21 | Mantes-la-Jolie Yvelines | 3.7 | 12% | 7.1% | 109 km |
| 22 | Bourg-en-Bresse Ain | 3.5 | 16% | 0% | 307 km |
| 23 | Douai Nord | 3.5 | 5.3% | 1.1% | 88 km |
| 24 | Marcq-en-Barœul Nord | 3.4 | 3.7% | 0% | 60 km |
| 25 | Compiègne Oise | 3.4 | 74% | 76% | 119 km |
| 26 | La Ciotat Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 20% | 27% | On it |
| 27 | Wattrelos Nord | 3.1 | 3.3% | 0% | 60 km |
| 28 | Tremblay-en-France Seine-Saint-Denis | 3 | 3.9% | 0% | 151 km |
| 29 | Poissy Yvelines | 3 | 12% | 0% | 131 km |
| 30 | Le Cannet Alpes-Maritimes | 2.8 | 9.9% | 0% | 2.4 km |
| 31 | Thionville Moselle | 2.7 | 33% | 0% | 307 km |
| 32 | Joué-lès-Tours Indre-et-Loire | 2.5 | 15% | 0% | 179 km |
| 33 | Villenave-d'Ornon Gironde | 2.4 | 7% | 14% | 26 km |
| 34 | Gap Hautes-Alpes | 2.3 | 28% | 33% | 133 km |
| 35 | Châteauroux Indre | 2.3 | 3.8% | 4.8% | 224 km |
| 36 | Châlons-en-Champagne Marne | 2.2 | 0.7% | 0% | 237 km |
| 37 | Montélimar Drôme | 1.8 | 8% | 0.9% | 123 km |
| 38 | Draguignan Var | 1.5 | 29% | 0% | 26 km |
| 39 | Castres Tarn | 1.1 | 9.7% | 1.2% | 90 km |
| 40 | Saint-Joseph Réunion | 0.6 | 50% | 85% | On it |
| 41 | Saint-Benoît Réunion | 0.4 | 59% | 78% | On it |
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 Wattrelos
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Lion leads, at 39 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de l'Union
Park or garden · 380 m outside the commune
4.1 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
2.9 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Mont-à-Leux - Mont-à-Leux Park
Park or garden
1.8 ha0.4 km of path
2 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Moulin Tonton
Park or garden
1 ha0.5 km of path
2.8 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Abeilles
Park or garden · 390 m outside the commune
0.6 ha
3.2 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square du Broutteux
Park or garden · 230 m outside the commune
0.6 ha
3 km westfrom the center
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, 7.6 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
7.6 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
42 km of footpaths cross Wattrelos
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
42 km
3.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.6 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
3.3%
about 0.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
WattrelosNord medianFrance median
Footpaths3.1
Hiking routes0.3
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
WattrelosNord medianFrance median
Woodland3.3%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 75% 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 Wattrelos is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit du Plouys5.3 km
Voie verte Somain Halluin0.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Wattrelos: 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 Wattrelos →
Neighbors
Next to Wattrelos
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RoubaixLeersLys-lez-LannoyTourcoingMouvauxCroixWattrelos
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Wattrelos
Is Wattrelos in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Le Héron nature reserve, 7.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Wattrelos?
OpenStreetMap maps 42 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Wattrelos is woodland?
3.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Wattrelos near the sea?
No: the coast is 60 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Wattrelos?
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.