First pick
Bois de la Citadelle
Wood or forest
35 ha4.5 km of path
1 hto walk all 4.5 km of path
1.5 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Floflo62 · CC BY-SA 4.04%woodland
Outdoors in Achicourt · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Achicourt has more footpaths per km² than 8 in 10 French towns
21 km of footpaths cross Achicourt (3.6 km per km²). 4% of Achicourt is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Achicourt; the nearest, Massif forestier de Lucheux (Natura 2000), is 24 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: Massif forestier de Lucheux, 24 km
Woodland
4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
21 km
3.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.9 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: Bois de la Citadelle
Throughout this page, the Pas-de-Calais 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 Achicourt?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths3.6 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Little mapped woodland4% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Achicourt apart: its footpaths. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Achicourt 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
Woodland4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
18out of 100
Footpaths3.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
81out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
48out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Achicourt has the 8th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,765 to 7,981 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 Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc (0.4 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 | Malzéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.6 | 19% | 32% | 364 km |
| 3 | Jouy-en-Josas Yvelines | 5.9 | 42% | 0% | 151 km |
| 4 | Terville Moselle | 4.6 | 24% | 0% | 307 km |
| 5 | Libercourt Pas-de-Calais | 4.5 | 23% | 0% | 75 km |
| 6 | Lagord Charente-Maritime | 4.3 | 3% | 0% | 2.8 km |
| 7 | Langueux Côtes-d'Armor | 3.7 | 8% | 8.6% | On it |
| 8 | Achicourt Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 4% | 0% | 78 km |
| 9 | Billy-Montigny Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 8.6% | 0% | 79 km |
| 10 | Claix Isère | 3.5 | 55% | 64% | 196 km |
| 11 | Publier Haute-Savoie | 3.4 | 17% | 6.1% | 300 km |
| 12 | Neuville-sur-Saône Rhône | 3.3 | 18% | 0% | 264 km |
| 13 | Courcelles-lès-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 7.7% | 0% | 82 km |
| 14 | Montreuil-Juigné Maine-et-Loire | 2.9 | 8.8% | 15% | 117 km |
| 15 | Bompas Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.9 | 0.2% | 0% | 8.5 km |
| 16 | Gargenville Yvelines | 2.4 | 16% | 42% | 117 km |
| 17 | Romagnat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.3 | 22% | 3.1% | 252 km |
| 18 | Baillargues Hérault | 2.3 | 1.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 19 | La Verpillière Isère | 2.3 | 30% | 0% | 243 km |
| 20 | Le Soler Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 4.9% | 0% | 20 km |
| 21 | Cappelle-la-Grande Nord | 2 | 0.2% | 0% | 4.6 km |
| 22 | La Couronne Charente | 1.7 | 29% | 21% | 70 km |
| 23 | Lège-Cap-Ferret Gironde | 1.6 | 73% | 21% | On it |
| 24 | Houplines Nord | 1.4 | 1.4% | 0% | 51 km |
| 25 | Moirans Isère | 1.4 | 9.7% | 0% | 215 km |
| 26 | Contes Alpes-Maritimes | 1.4 | 37% | 0% | 9.9 km |
| 27 | Corte Haute-Corse | 1.3 | 22% | 100% | 32 km |
| 28 | Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc Gironde | 1.3 | 70% | 0% | 15 km |
| 29 | Lure Haute-Saône | 1.3 | 47% | 0.1% | 440 km |
| 30 | Saint-Denis-en-Val Loiret | 1.3 | 8.5% | 14% | 209 km |
| 31 | Sisteron Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.2 | 38% | 7.1% | 106 km |
| 32 | Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny Haute-Savoie | 1.2 | 28% | 0.2% | 269 km |
| 33 | Saint-Affrique Aveyron | 1.2 | 37% | 100% | 85 km |
| 34 | Geispolsheim Bas-Rhin | 1.1 | 17% | 0.5% | 451 km |
| 35 | Mordelles Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.1 | 5.4% | 0% | 48 km |
| 36 | Saint-Julien-de-Concelles Loire-Atlantique | 0.9 | 6.1% | 17% | 50 km |
| 37 | Hettange-Grande Moselle | 0.8 | 28% | 0.4% | 304 km |
| 38 | Coulounieix-Chamiers Dordogne | 0.7 | 33% | 0% | 102 km |
| 39 | Pézenas Hérault | 0.7 | 10% | 6.9% | 19 km |
| 40 | Ustaritz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.6 | 47% | 28% | 11 km |
| 41 | Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 4.4% | 36% | 29 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 Achicourt
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de la Citadelle leads, at 35 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Espace vert des Hautes-Fontaines
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
7.6 ha2.1 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.1 km of path
1.8 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin des Allées
Park or garden · 310 m outside the commune
5.1 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
1.6 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Centre Vert
Park or garden · 250 m outside the commune
4 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
2.7 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Tourelle
Park or garden
2.5 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
Centralin the middle of Achicourt
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Jean Jaurès
Park or garden · 40 m outside the commune
1 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
1.2 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
Massif forestier de Lucheux is the nearest protected area, 24 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
Massif forestier de Lucheux
24 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
Footpaths and woods in Achicourt
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
21 km
3.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.9 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
4%
about 0.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AchicourtPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Footpaths3.6
Hiking routes0.3
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AchicourtPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Woodland4%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 81% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 82% 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 Achicourt is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 1217.8 km
GR 1455.2 km
Arras - Bavincourt8.2 km
Loué - Arras4.3 km
Via Francigena France 01, Calais - Arras2.7 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Achicourt: GR 121 and GR 145.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Achicourt: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Arras, 7.5 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 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 49 | 50 | 43 | 61 | 61 | 65 | 63 | 58 | 65 | 64 | 76 |
April is the driest month (43 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 76 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Achicourt →
Neighbors
Next to Achicourt
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BeaurainsArrasDainvilleSaint-NicolasSainte-CatherineSaint-Laurent-BlangyAchicourt
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Achicourt | 0% | 4% | 3.6 |
| Beaurains 5,559 · 1.6 km | 0% | 1.1% | 2.5 |
| Arras 42,875 · 2 km | 0% | 3.4% | 6.5 |
| Dainville 5,683 · 3 km | 0% | 4.1% | 2 |
| Saint-Nicolas 4,494 · 3.9 km | 0% | 2.8% | 4.8 |
| Sainte-Catherine 3,471 · 4 km | 0% | 6.1% | 3.3 |
| Saint-Laurent-Blangy 6,459 · 4.1 km | 0% | 7.9% | 3.8 |
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 Achicourt
Is Achicourt in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Massif forestier de Lucheux, 24 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Achicourt?
OpenStreetMap maps 21 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Achicourt is woodland?
4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Achicourt near the sea?
No: the coast is 78 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Achicourt?
May 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.