First pick
Parc des Berges de la Souchez
Park or garden · 40 m outside the commune
306 ha65.3 km of path
14 h 30 minto walk all 65.3 km of path
4.9 km south-westfrom the center
Chemin de HalageChemin des Bocquiaux
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jérémy Jännick · Public domain5.3%woodland
Outdoors in Carvin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Carvin is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 53 km across Carvin (2.5 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 5.3% of Carvin. No protected area reaches Carvin; the nearest, Les "Cinq Tailles" (Natura 2000), is 6.6 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: Les "Cinq Tailles", 6.6 km
Woodland
5.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
53 km
2.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.7 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc des Berges de la Souchez
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 Carvin 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
Woodland5.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
24out of 100
Footpaths2.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
67out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
52out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Carvin has the 18th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (17,313 to 18,538 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jouy-le-Moutier (10.3 km per km²) to Marmande (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jouy-le-Moutier Val-d'Oise | 10.3 | 23% | 0% | 123 km |
| 2 | Saint-Égrève Isère | 5.8 | 22% | 30% | 208 km |
| 3 | Bonneuil-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 3.6% | 0% | 163 km |
| 4 | L'Isle-d'Abeau Isère | 5.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 242 km |
| 5 | Floirac Gironde | 5.1 | 16% | 2.6% | 19 km |
| 6 | Villeneuve-Loubet Alpes-Maritimes | 5 | 30% | 16% | On it |
| 7 | Boissy-Saint-Léger Val-de-Marne | 4.4 | 50% | 0% | 166 km |
| 8 | Balma Haute-Garonne | 4.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 142 km |
| 9 | Éragny-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 4.1 | 15% | 0% | 124 km |
| 10 | Chamalières Puy-de-Dôme | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0.1% | 258 km |
| 11 | Moissy-Cramayel Seine-et-Marne | 3.9 | 4.7% | 0% | 180 km |
| 12 | Saran Loiret | 3.9 | 24% | 0% | 200 km |
| 13 | Écully Rhône | 3.8 | 14% | 0% | 253 km |
| 14 | Garches Hauts-de-Seine | 3.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 144 km |
| 15 | Bry-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 3.6 | 7% | 0% | 158 km |
| 16 | Cognac Charente | 3.5 | 13% | 17% | 43 km |
| 17 | Avion Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 13% | 0% | 77 km |
| 18 | Hendaye Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.4 | 8% | 26% | On it |
| 19 | Osny Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 14% | 0.1% | 119 km |
| 20 | Le Pontet Vaucluse | 2.9 | 2.8% | 3.4% | 56 km |
| 21 | Cluses Haute-Savoie | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 264 km |
| 22 | Yutz Moselle | 2.6 | 18% | 0% | 310 km |
| 23 | Soisy-sous-Montmorency Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 5% | 0% | 135 km |
| 24 | Carvin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 73 km |
| 25 | Digne-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.5 | 50% | 4% | 85 km |
| 26 | Pontarlier Doubs | 2.4 | 48% | 0% | 359 km |
| 27 | Sanary-sur-Mer Var | 2.2 | 16% | 0% | On it |
| 28 | Fécamp Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 25% | 2.9% | On it |
| 29 | Lattes Hérault | 2.2 | 0.8% | 22% | 5.5 km |
| 30 | Lunéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.1 | 9% | 0.1% | 389 km |
| 31 | Limay Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 6.1% | 112 km |
| 32 | Châteauneuf-les-Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône | 2 | 17% | 27% | 6 km |
| 33 | Sallanches Haute-Savoie | 2 | 32% | 35% | 250 km |
| 34 | Bagnols-sur-Cèze Gard | 1.6 | 27% | 8.2% | 79 km |
| 35 | Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume Var | 1 | 41% | 34% | 33 km |
| 36 | Brignoles Var | 0.9 | 48% | 17% | 34 km |
| 37 | Romorantin-Lanthenay Loir-et-Cher | 0.8 | 30% | 100% | 249 km |
| 38 | Vire Normandie Calvados | 0.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 41 km |
| 39 | Segré-en-Anjou Bleu Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 4.6% | 0% | 108 km |
| 40 | Ambarès-et-Lagrave Gironde | 0.4 | 4.8% | 35% | 11 km |
| 41 | Marmande Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 11% | 4% | 82 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 Carvin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc des Berges de la Souchez leads, at 306 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de Loisirs Léo Lagrange
Park or garden · 40 m outside the commune
26 ha6 km of path
1 h 20 minto walk all 6 km of path
2.7 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
La Tour d'Horloge
Wood or forest
36 ha9.4 km of path
2 h 5 minto walk all 9.4 km of path
1.7 km eastfrom 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, 6.6 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"
6.6 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
53 km of footpaths and 8 km of hiking routes cross Carvin
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
53 km
2.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.7 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
5.3%
about 1.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CarvinPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Footpaths2.5
Hiking routes0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CarvinPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Woodland5.3%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 67% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 76% 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 Carvin is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Béthune - Terril du Téléphérique13 km
Terril du Téléphérique - Terril 81A8.9 km
Libercourt - Terril du Téléphérique1.3 km
Menen - Libercourt0.7 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Carvin: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Douai, 14 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 | 15.5 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 51 | 53 | 42 | 57 | 63 | 68 | 68 | 61 | 64 | 71 | 73 |
April is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 73 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Carvin →
Neighbors
Next to Carvin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
LibercourtCourrièresOigniesProvinAnnœullinMeurchinCarvin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carvin | 0% | 5.3% | 2.5 |
| Libercourt 7,973 · 3.6 km | 0% | 23% | 4.5 |
| Courrières 10,176 · 3.8 km | 0% | 11% | 4.1 |
| Oignies 10,323 · 4 km | 0% | 12% | 3.7 |
| Provin 4,428 · 4.2 km | 0% | 4.7% | 2.4 |
| Annœullin 10,847 · 4.6 km | 0% | 4.2% | 2.8 |
| Meurchin 3,691 · 4.7 km | 0% | 7.8% | 1.9 |
Libercourt is 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 Carvin
Is Carvin in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Les "Cinq Tailles", 6.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Carvin?
OpenStreetMap maps 53 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Carvin is woodland?
5.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Carvin near the sea?
No: the coast is 73 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Carvin?
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.