First pick
Parc de la Deule
Park or garden
107 ha9.9 km of path
2 h 10 minto walk all 9.9 km of path
2.3 km north-eastfrom the center
Chemin des Longs RiezLe Perchoir
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: VVVCFFrance · CC BY-SA 4.06.6%woodland
Outdoors in Wavrin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Wavrin is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Wavrin; the nearest, Les "Cinq Tailles" (Natura 2000), is 12 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 6.6% of Wavrin. Footpaths add up to 28 km across Wavrin (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: Les "Cinq Tailles", 12 km
Woodland
6.6%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
28 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.1 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
8
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de la Deule
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 Wavrin 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
Woodland6.6%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
29out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
58out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
46out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Wavrin has the 18th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,673 to 7,850 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Chessy (11.5 km per km²) to Lys-Haut-Layon (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chessy Seine-et-Marne | 11.5 | 14% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Émerainville Seine-et-Marne | 9 | 43% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Malzéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.6 | 19% | 32% | 364 km |
| 4 | Noisy-le-Roi Yvelines | 4.9 | 20% | 0% | 139 km |
| 5 | Terville Moselle | 4.6 | 24% | 0% | 307 km |
| 6 | Lagord Charente-Maritime | 4.3 | 3% | 0% | 2.8 km |
| 7 | Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse Yvelines | 4.2 | 48% | 100% | 149 km |
| 8 | Thann Haut-Rhin | 3.8 | 75% | 100% | 448 km |
| 9 | Claix Isère | 3.5 | 55% | 64% | 196 km |
| 10 | Neuville-sur-Saône Rhône | 3.3 | 18% | 0% | 264 km |
| 11 | Courcelles-lès-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 7.7% | 0% | 82 km |
| 12 | Montreuil-Juigné Maine-et-Loire | 2.9 | 8.8% | 15% | 117 km |
| 13 | Bompas Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.9 | 0.2% | 0% | 8.5 km |
| 14 | Falaise Calvados | 2.8 | 4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 15 | Bidart Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.4 | 19% | 7.8% | On it |
| 16 | Baillargues Hérault | 2.3 | 1.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 17 | La Verpillière Isère | 2.3 | 30% | 0% | 243 km |
| 18 | Wavrin Nord | 2 | 6.6% | 0% | 64 km |
| 19 | Cappelle-la-Grande Nord | 2 | 0.2% | 0% | 4.6 km |
| 20 | Saint-Marcellin Isère | 1.9 | 4.3% | 0% | 192 km |
| 21 | Cranves-Sales Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 28% | 5% | 284 km |
| 22 | La Couronne Charente | 1.7 | 29% | 21% | 70 km |
| 23 | Moirans Isère | 1.4 | 9.7% | 0% | 215 km |
| 24 | Corte Haute-Corse | 1.3 | 22% | 100% | 32 km |
| 25 | Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc Gironde | 1.3 | 70% | 0% | 15 km |
| 26 | Saint-Denis-en-Val Loiret | 1.3 | 8.5% | 14% | 209 km |
| 27 | Mimizan Landes | 1.3 | 75% | 8.2% | On it |
| 28 | Sisteron Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.2 | 38% | 7.1% | 106 km |
| 29 | Les Andelys Eure | 1.1 | 22% | 6.1% | 79 km |
| 30 | Langon Gironde | 1 | 12% | 3.9% | 58 km |
| 31 | Beynes Yvelines | 0.9 | 31% | 0% | 128 km |
| 32 | Nieppe Nord | 0.9 | 1.1% | 0% | 48 km |
| 33 | Hettange-Grande Moselle | 0.8 | 28% | 0.4% | 304 km |
| 34 | Pluvigner Morbihan | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 35 | Bain-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 5% | 0% | 65 km |
| 36 | Coulounieix-Chamiers Dordogne | 0.7 | 33% | 0% | 102 km |
| 37 | Pézenas Hérault | 0.7 | 10% | 6.9% | 19 km |
| 38 | Machecoul-Saint-Même Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 12% | 27% | 13 km |
| 39 | Les Avenières Veyrins-Thuellin Isère | 0.4 | 22% | 11% | 249 km |
| 40 | Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 4.4% | 36% | 29 km |
| 41 | Lys-Haut-Layon Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 6.8% | 0% | 105 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 Wavrin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Deule leads, at 107 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Le Bois de la Gîte
Wood or forest
55 ha7.8 km of path
1 h 45 minto walk all 7.8 km of path
2.3 km eastfrom the center
Chemin des Longs RiezLe Perchoir
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Ansereuilles
Park or garden
13 ha1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
Centralin the middle of Wavrin
Directionsto a point inside
L'Archipel de Don
Park or garden · 240 m outside the commune
7.1 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
3.2 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
L'Étang du Bourg
Park or garden
6.2 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
0.7 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
La Butte aux alouettes
Wood or forest
8.2 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
1.1 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Le Bois Lezy
Wood or forest
7.2 ha0.5 km of path
0.7 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de Léance
Wood or forest · 350 m outside the commune
3 ha
1.8 km southfrom 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, 12 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"
12 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
28 km of footpaths cross Wavrin
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
28 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.1 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
6.6%
about 0.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
WavrinNord medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
WavrinNord medianFrance median
Woodland6.6%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 58% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 71% 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 Wavrin 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
Les Ansereuilles4 km
La Grande Allée1.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Wavrin: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lille-Lesquin, 11 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 Wavrin →
Neighbors
Next to Wavrin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Sainghin-en-WeppesSantesAllennes-les-MaraisHouplin-AncoisneGondecourtAnnœullinWavrin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wavrin | 0% | 6.6% | 2 |
| Sainghin-en-Weppes 5,638 · 2.9 km | 0% | 4.8% | 1.5 |
| Santes 5,652 · 3.2 km | 0% | 11% | 3 |
| Allennes-les-Marais 3,545 · 3.6 km | 0% | 7.5% | 2.2 |
| Houplin-Ancoisne 3,326 · 3.8 km | 0% | 4.4% | 3 |
| Gondecourt 4,148 · 4 km | 0% | 4.8% | 1.2 |
| Annœullin 10,847 · 4.7 km | 0% | 4.2% | 2.8 |
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 Wavrin
Is Wavrin in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Les "Cinq Tailles", 12 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Wavrin?
OpenStreetMap maps 28 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Wavrin is woodland?
6.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Wavrin near the sea?
No: the coast is 64 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Wavrin?
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.