First pick
Bois des Bruyères
Wood or forest
84 ha3.6 km of path
50 minto walk all 3.6 km of path
1.2 km southfrom the center
Chemin de la Longue Crête
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: A. Y. Jackson · Public domain14%woodland
Outdoors in Angres · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Angres is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Angres; the nearest, Marais de Cambrin, Annequin, Cuinchy et Festubert nature reserve, is 12 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 10 km across Angres (2.1 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 2 km in Angres. 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: Marais de Cambrin, Annequin, Cuinchy et Festubert nature reserve, 12 km
Woodland
14%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
10 km
2.1 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
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois des Bruyères
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.
Against French towns
How Angres 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
Woodland14%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
50out of 100
Footpaths2.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
59out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
53out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Angres has the 13th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,610 to 4,672 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Tremblade (4.3 km per km²) to Vayres (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Tremblade Charente-Maritime | 4.3 | 72% | 89% | On it |
| 2 | Auzeville-Tolosane Haute-Garonne | 3.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 140 km |
| 3 | L'Huisserie Mayenne | 3.8 | 16% | 0% | 80 km |
| 4 | Ars-sur-Moselle Moselle | 3.7 | 59% | 100% | 327 km |
| 5 | La Tour-de-Salvagny Rhône | 3.3 | 28% | 0% | 255 km |
| 6 | Mandeure Doubs | 3 | 59% | 11% | 410 km |
| 7 | Sangatte Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 1.7% | 99% | On it |
| 8 | Évin-Malmaison Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 19% | 0% | 80 km |
| 9 | Ascain Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.6 | 20% | 51% | 5.2 km |
| 10 | Guesnain Nord | 2.3 | 3% | 0% | 93 km |
| 11 | Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 5.8% | 0% | 258 km |
| 12 | Auchy-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 2.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 66 km |
| 13 | Angres Pas-de-Calais | 2.1 | 14% | 0% | 75 km |
| 14 | Auberchicourt Nord | 1.9 | 2% | 0.3% | 97 km |
| 15 | Plouha Côtes-d'Armor | 1.9 | 15% | 0.1% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Leu-d'Esserent Oise | 1.8 | 22% | 0.3% | 119 km |
| 17 | Trouville-sur-Mer Calvados | 1.8 | 7.9% | 0.5% | On it |
| 18 | Bar-sur-Aube Aube | 1.5 | 14% | 22% | 309 km |
| 19 | Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 20% | 11% | 343 km |
| 20 | La Fouillouse Loire | 1.3 | 26% | 0% | 217 km |
| 21 | Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu Rhône | 1.2 | 14% | 0% | 243 km |
| 22 | Neufchâtel-en-Bray Seine-Maritime | 1.2 | 17% | 3.7% | 32 km |
| 23 | Jargeau Loiret | 1 | 7.3% | 20% | 218 km |
| 24 | Montville Seine-Maritime | 1 | 39% | 0% | 41 km |
| 25 | Soucieu-en-Jarrest Rhône | 1 | 15% | 0% | 240 km |
| 26 | Bouloc Haute-Garonne | 1 | 22% | 0% | 158 km |
| 27 | Véretz Indre-et-Loire | 1 | 13% | 0% | 188 km |
| 28 | Bas-en-Basset Haute-Loire | 0.9 | 54% | 97% | 194 km |
| 29 | Les Garennes sur Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.9 | 12% | 23% | 121 km |
| 30 | Puget-Ville Var | 0.9 | 23% | 19% | 20 km |
| 31 | Bédée Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 0.5% | 0% | 35 km |
| 32 | Montbard Côte-d'Or | 0.6 | 74% | 0% | 344 km |
| 33 | La Bouëxière Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 35% | 0% | 48 km |
| 34 | Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas Gard | 0.6 | 4.6% | 0% | 59 km |
| 35 | Hagetmau Landes | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 68 km |
| 36 | Pluméliau-Bieuzy Morbihan | 0.4 | 16% | 0% | 26 km |
| 37 | Dompierre-sur-Yon Vendée | 0.4 | 8.7% | 0% | 39 km |
| 38 | Saint-Méen-le-Grand Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 36 km |
| 39 | Villers-Bretonneux Somme | 0.3 | 8.8% | 0% | 69 km |
| 40 | Soullans Vendée | 0.2 | 5.9% | 51% | 11 km |
| 41 | Vayres Gironde | 0.2 | 2.2% | 11% | 24 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 Angres
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois des Bruyères leads, at 84 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Givenchy
Wood or forest · 190 m outside the commune
42 ha2.3 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.3 km of path
2.2 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Stade Parc Rollencourt
Park or garden
10 ha2.4 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.4 km of path
0.8 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
Marais de Cambrin, Annequin, Cuinchy et Festubert nature reserve 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.
Nature reserve
Marais de Cambrin, Annequin, Cuinchy et Festubert nature reserve
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
10 km of footpaths cross Angres
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
10 km
2.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.9 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
14%
about 0.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AngresPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Footpaths2.1
Hiking routes0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AngresPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Woodland14%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 59% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 50% 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 Angres is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
8 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Terril des Pinchonvalles - Mont de Justice6.8 km
Terril des Pinchonvalles - Monument aux morts3.8 km
Monument aux Morts - Bois de l'Abbé3.3 km
Via Francigena France 01, Calais - Arras1.9 km
Terril 81A - Terril des Pinchonvalles1.7 km
Dennebrœucq - Mont de Justice1.5 km
Mont de Justice - Ollain1.5 km
Mont de Justice - Bois de l'Abbé0.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Angres: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Arras, 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) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| 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 Angres →
Neighbors
Next to Angres
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
SouchezLiévinAix-NouletteÉleu-dit-LeauwetteGrenayBully-les-MinesAngres
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angres | 0% | 14% | 2.1 |
| Souchez 2,663 · 2 km | 0% | 9% | 1.7 |
| Liévin 30,063 · 2.3 km | 0% | 5.2% | 4.7 |
| Aix-Noulette 3,902 · 3.6 km | 0% | 16% | 1.3 |
| Éleu-dit-Leauwette 2,805 · 4.1 km | 0% | 16% | 5.5 |
| Grenay 6,644 · 4.8 km | 0% | 6.7% | 6.3 |
| Bully-les-Mines 12,146 · 4.8 km | 0% | 3.1% | 3.4 |
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 Angres
Is Angres in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais de Cambrin, Annequin, Cuinchy et Festubert nature reserve, 12 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Angres?
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Angres is woodland?
14% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Angres near the sea?
No: the coast is 75 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Angres?
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.