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100%of the land protected

Outdoors in Wignehies · protected areas, woods and footpaths

Wignehies lies inside Avesnois Regional Nature Park

Protected areas cover 100% of Wignehies’ land. Footpaths add up to 2 km across Wignehies (0.1 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 13 km in Wignehies. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.

100%protected 0.5%woodland 2km of footpaths

Protected areas

100%

of the commune’s land

Compared town: 0.1%

Woodland

0.5%

of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap

Compared town: 13%

Footpaths

2 km

0.1 km per km²

Compared town: 1.7 km per km²

Hiking routes

13 km

waymarked, GR and others

Compared town: 0.3 km per km²

Green space nearby

91%

of residents within 800 m of a park or wood

Compared town: 100%

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 Wignehies?

Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.

Inside Avesnois Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On waymarked routes13 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Few mapped footpaths0.1 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.

What sets Wignehies apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes. It is shorter on footpaths.

Against French towns

How Wignehies 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site

94out of 100

Woodland0.5%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap

4out of 100

Footpaths0.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune

1out of 100

Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune

81out of 100

Green space nearby91%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood

8out of 100

Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.

Towns its size

Wignehies has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size

The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,774 to 2,836 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.

Wignehies 0.1

Éleu-dit-LeauwetteLevroux

036 km per km²

From Éleu-dit-Leauwette (5.5 km per km²) to Levroux (0 km per km²).

Every town in the comparison

	Town	Paths (km/km²)	Woodland	Protected	Coast
1	Éleu-dit-Leauwette Pas-de-Calais	5.5	16%	0%	76 km
2	Burbure Pas-de-Calais	3	3.7%	0%	55 km
3	Pinsaguel Haute-Garonne	2.8	14%	29%	146 km
4	Cosnes-et-Romain Meurthe-et-Moselle	2.6	35%	0%	273 km
5	Montfort-l'Amaury Yvelines	2.1	16%	100%	129 km
6	Saint-Saturnin Sarthe	1.9	8.9%	0%	129 km
7	Candé Maine-et-Loire	1.9	16%	0%	91 km
8	Peyruis Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	1.8	53%	6.2%	90 km
9	Arles-sur-Tech Pyrénées-Orientales	1.7	72%	6.8%	36 km
10	Ibos Hautes-Pyrénées	1.7	31%	0%	126 km
11	Anzin-Saint-Aubin Pas-de-Calais	1.7	6.2%	0%	77 km
12	Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel Var	1.6	80%	0%	9.2 km
13	Le Faouët Morbihan	1.4	21%	7.3%	24 km
14	L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs Doubs	1.4	50%	0%	413 km
15	Colombiers Hérault	1.2	1.4%	0%	13 km
16	Saint-Aignan Loir-et-Cher	1	31%	0%	218 km
17	La Fère Aisne	0.9	12%	11%	134 km
18	Ducey-Les Chéris Manche	0.9	13%	7.8%	5.3 km
19	Amancy Haute-Savoie	0.8	14%	0%	271 km
20	Langogne Lozère	0.7	23%	0.1%	131 km
21	Connerré Sarthe	0.7	23%	0%	144 km
22	Ayguesvives Haute-Garonne	0.7	8.4%	0%	128 km
23	Arcis-sur-Aube Aube	0.7	10%	0%	256 km
24	Uzerche Corrèze	0.7	22%	0.9%	176 km
25	Meslay-du-Maine Mayenne	0.7	1%	0%	96 km
26	Fère-en-Tardenois Aisne	0.7	40%	0%	171 km
27	Bourron-Marlotte Seine-et-Marne	0.7	42%	22%	211 km
28	Longny les Villages Orne	0.5	35%	100%	104 km
29	Baixas Pyrénées-Orientales	0.5	0%	3.9%	19 km
30	Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse Haute-Saône	0.5	46%	46%	422 km
31	Cour-Cheverny Loir-et-Cher	0.4	41%	29%	229 km
32	Blangy-sur-Bresle Seine-Maritime	0.4	32%	0.5%	23 km
33	Courville-sur-Eure Eure-et-Loir	0.4	0.2%	0%	127 km
34	Grandvilliers Oise	0.3	0.4%	0%	60 km
35	Rosières-aux-Salines Meurthe-et-Moselle	0.3	24%	0%	381 km
36	Buchy Seine-Maritime	0.3	4.8%	0%	42 km
37	Rodilhan Gard	0.2	0%	24%	40 km
38	Wignehies Nord	0.1	0.5%	100%	156 km
39	Sérifontaine Oise	0.1	21%	0%	80 km
40	Listrac-Médoc Gironde	0	72%	100%	8.3 km
41	Levroux Indre	0	8.7%	0%	222 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 Wignehies

Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt communale de Hirson leads, at 2,684 ha. Directions go to a point inside.

First pick

Forêt communale de Hirson

Wood or forest · 0 m outside the commune

2,684 ha78 km of path

17 h 20 minto walk all 78 km of path

9.3 km south-eastfrom the center

Single de Bon FeuParcours de SantéSentier des Carrières+5 paths

Directionsto a point inside

Parc des Soigneuses

Park or garden

1.5 ha0.5 km of path

5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path

Centralin the middle of Wignehies

Directionsto a point inside

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.

Close to home

9 in 10 residents of Wignehies live within 800 m of a park or wood

Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).

91% within 800 m9.3% further

Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents

WignehiesNord medianFrance median

Within 800 m91%

0%50%100%

About 300 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.

Protected areas

Protected land in and around Wignehies

The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.

Regional nature park

Avesnois Regional Nature Park

100% of the commune

Natura 2000 site

Forêt, bocage, étangs de Thiérache

1.8 km from the town center

Share of the commune’s land

Any protected area100%

Regional nature park100%

Natura 2000 site0.1%

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.

100% of Wignehies’ land is protected, more than in 94% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Nord has 0%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.

Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.

Footpaths and woods

2 km of footpaths and 13 km of hiking routes cross Wignehies

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

2 km

0.1 km per km²

Hiking routes

13 km

waymarked: 0.9 km per km²

Woodland

0.5%

about 0.1 km² of mapped woods

Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap

WignehiesNord medianFrance median

Footpaths0.1

Hiking routes0.9

01.53 km per km²

Share of the land · mapped woods and forest

WignehiesNord medianFrance median

Woodland0.5%

0%50%100%

That is less than in 99% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 96% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.

4 named hiking routes within 2 km

Other named walk

Sentier Pays et Nature de Wignehies3.6 km

Sentier Architecture de Wignehies3.2 km

Circuit du Chateau de Rainsars0.8 km

Le Camp de Giblou0.5 km

When to get out

The best walking months in Wignehies: May to July and September

Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Fontaine-Les-Vv, 22 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	16.3	15.9	14.5	12.5	10.6	8.9	8.1
High (°C)	5	6	10	14	18	21	23	23	19	14	9	6
Rain (mm)	75	62	62	50	63	67	71	81	59	71	74	92

April is the driest month (50 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 92 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 50 nights a year. The climate in Wignehies →

Neighbors

Next to Wignehies

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.

FourmiesAnorTrélonSains-du-NordHirsonAvesnes-sur-HelpeWignehies

Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+

Town	Protected	Woodland	Paths (km/km²)
Wignehies	100%	0.5%	0.1
Fourmies 11,449 · 3 km	100%	48%	1.6
Anor 3,099 · 7.4 km	100%	37%	0.8
Trélon 2,604 · 8.3 km	100%	78%	0.6
Sains-du-Nord 2,755 · 8.7 km	100%	34%	0.1
Hirson 8,469 · 12 km	66%	66%	1.8
Avesnes-sur-Helpe 4,012 · 13 km	100%	1.7%	1.4

Fourmies, Anor and Trélon are 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 Wignehies

Is Wignehies in a national or regional nature park?

Yes: Wignehies lies in Avesnois Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).

Are there good walks in Wignehies?

OpenStreetMap maps 2 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 13 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.

How much of Wignehies is woodland?

0.5% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.

Is Wignehies near the sea?

No: the coast is 156 km from the town center, as the crow flies.

When is the best time for walking in Wignehies?

May to July and 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.