First pick
Parc de la Prairie
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Wormhout
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Pierre André · CC BY-SA 4.00.3%woodland
Outdoors in Wormhout · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Wormhout
No protected area reaches Wormhout; the nearest, Vallon de la Petite Becque nature reserve, is 5 km from the town center. Wormhout has almost no mapped woodland. Wormhout has 12 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: Vallon de la Petite Becque nature reserve, 5 km
Woodland
0.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
42 km
1.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
12 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
89%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
19 km
from the town center to the coast
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 Wormhout?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyVallon de la Petite Becque nature reserve is 5 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.3% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Wormhout apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Wormhout 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
Woodland0.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
3out of 100
Footpaths1.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
46out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
56out of 100
Green space nearby89%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
7out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Wormhout has the 19th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,517 to 5,652 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Rungis (6.2 km per km²) to Ludon-Médoc (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rungis Val-de-Marne | 6.2 | 3.6% | 0% | 159 km |
| 2 | Le Port-Marly Yvelines | 5.9 | 13% | 0% | 138 km |
| 3 | Challes-les-Eaux Savoie | 3.9 | 32% | 40% | 229 km |
| 4 | Saint-Martin-d'Uriage Isère | 3.8 | 65% | 9.9% | 197 km |
| 5 | Santes Nord | 3 | 11% | 0% | 62 km |
| 6 | Nouzonville Ardennes | 3 | 67% | 100% | 203 km |
| 7 | La Ville-aux-Dames Indre-et-Loire | 2.9 | 19% | 13% | 189 km |
| 8 | Ternay Rhône | 2.7 | 18% | 0% | 234 km |
| 9 | Lardy Essonne | 2.7 | 46% | 0.1% | 173 km |
| 10 | Coublevie Isère | 2.7 | 18% | 73% | 220 km |
| 11 | Liverdun Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 72% | 0.1% | 355 km |
| 12 | Beaurains Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 1.1% | 0% | 79 km |
| 13 | Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent Eure | 2.2 | 35% | 0% | 71 km |
| 14 | Aussillon Tarn | 2 | 41% | 100% | 75 km |
| 15 | Delle Territoire de Belfort | 1.8 | 32% | 20% | 416 km |
| 16 | Baisieux Nord | 1.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 17 | Saint-Gilles Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 6.4% | 0% | 40 km |
| 18 | Nogent-sur-Seine Aube | 1.6 | 18% | 2.5% | 230 km |
| 19 | Wormhout Nord | 1.5 | 0.3% | 0% | 19 km |
| 20 | Sainghin-en-Weppes Nord | 1.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 64 km |
| 21 | Ille-sur-Têt Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.4 | 7.9% | 0.1% | 34 km |
| 22 | Pollestres Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.3 | 0.9% | 0% | 14 km |
| 23 | Genay Rhône | 1.2 | 9% | 0% | 266 km |
| 24 | Ambazac Haute-Vienne | 1.2 | 50% | 8.1% | 177 km |
| 25 | Montrond-les-Bains Loire | 1.2 | 3.1% | 17% | 231 km |
| 26 | Viarmes Val-d'Oise | 1.1 | 31% | 100% | 126 km |
| 27 | Quincy-Voisins Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 30% | 0% | 166 km |
| 28 | Sauvian Hérault | 1 | 0.4% | 0.3% | 6 km |
| 29 | Montval-sur-Loir Sarthe | 1 | 5.9% | 0% | 168 km |
| 30 | Les Achards Vendée | 0.9 | 4.6% | 0% | 15 km |
| 31 | La Gorgue Nord | 0.8 | 0.8% | 0% | 51 km |
| 32 | Bohain-en-Vermandois Aisne | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 129 km |
| 33 | Gannat Allier | 0.8 | 13% | 0% | 290 km |
| 34 | Wallers Nord | 0.8 | 28% | 99% | 99 km |
| 35 | Carbonne Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.8% | 7.6% | 153 km |
| 36 | Chazelles-sur-Lyon Loire | 0.6 | 13% | 0% | 232 km |
| 37 | Roquemaure Gard | 0.3 | 12% | 13% | 66 km |
| 38 | Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 16% | 1.8% | 173 km |
| 39 | Rives-du-Loir-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 17% | 26% | 131 km |
| 40 | Servian Hérault | 0.3 | 7.4% | 0% | 17 km |
| 41 | Ludon-Médoc Gironde | 0.2 | 5.6% | 100% | 3.7 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 Wormhout
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Prairie leads, at 1.2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Dehaene
Park or garden
0.6 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Wormhout
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 Wormhout 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).
89% within 800 m11% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
WormhoutNord medianFrance median
Within 800 m89%
0%50%100%
About 600 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
Vallon de la Petite Becque nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 5 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Vallon de la Petite Becque nature reserve
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
42 km of footpaths and 12 km of hiking routes cross Wormhout
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
1.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
12 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
0.3%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
WormhoutNord medianFrance median
Footpaths1.5
Hiking routes0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
WormhoutNord medianFrance median
Woodland0.3%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 54% 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.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 13014 km
GR 1281.9 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Wormhout: GR 130 and GR 128.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Wormhout: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Watten, 19 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 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 70 | 58 | 50 | 44 | 56 | 59 | 67 | 73 | 72 | 84 | 97 | 93 |
April is the driest month (44 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 97 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Wormhout →
Neighbors
Next to Wormhout
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BerguesHoymilleSteenvoordeHondschooteCappelle-la-GrandeTéteghem-Coudekerque-VillageWormhout
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wormhout | 0% | 0.3% | 1.5 | 19 km |
| Bergues 3,525 · 10 km | 0% | 18% | 12 | 8.9 km |
| Hoymille 3,259 · 10 km | 0% | 1.1% | 1.6 | 9 km |
| Steenvoorde 4,332 · 11 km | 0% | 1.9% | 1.8 | 29 km |
| Hondschoote 3,957 · 14 km | 0% | 0% | 1.6 | 12 km |
| Cappelle-la-Grande 7,839 · 15 km | 0% | 0.2% | 2 | 4.6 km |
| Téteghem-Coudekerque-Village 8,247 · 16 km | 0% | 9.1% | 2.8 | 4.1 km |
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 Wormhout
Is Wormhout in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallon de la Petite Becque nature reserve, 5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Wormhout?
OpenStreetMap maps 42 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 12 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Wormhout is woodland?
0.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Wormhout near the sea?
No: the coast is 19 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Wormhout?
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.