First pick
Bois de Roquelaure
Wood or forest
308 ha8.6 km of path
1 h 55 minto walk all 8.6 km of path
2.5 km south-westfrom the center
Ancienne Ligne de Chemin de Fer Dite des "Anglais"Chemin de la Vasserie
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain17%woodland
Outdoors in Chocques · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Chocques is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 6 km across Chocques (0.7 km per km²). No protected area reaches Chocques; the nearest, Marais de Cambrin, Annequin, Cuinchy et Festubert nature reserve, is 11 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 4 km in Chocques. 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, 11 km
Woodland
17%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
6 km
0.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.5 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Roquelaure
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 Chocques 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
Woodland17%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
57out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
24out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
65out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Chocques has the 20th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,761 to 2,811 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
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 | Argelès-Gazost Hautes-Pyrénées | 4.3 | 17% | 100% | 130 km |
| 3 | Pabu Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 22% | 0% | 15 km |
| 4 | Pinsaguel Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 14% | 29% | 146 km |
| 5 | Cosnes-et-Romain Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 35% | 0% | 273 km |
| 6 | Saint-Lunaire Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.6 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Montfort-l'Amaury Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 100% | 129 km |
| 8 | Saint-Saturnin Sarthe | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 129 km |
| 9 | Candé Maine-et-Loire | 1.9 | 16% | 0% | 91 km |
| 10 | Peyruis Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 53% | 6.2% | 90 km |
| 11 | Ampuis Rhône | 1.7 | 36% | 95% | 222 km |
| 12 | Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel Var | 1.6 | 80% | 0% | 9.2 km |
| 13 | L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs Doubs | 1.4 | 50% | 0% | 413 km |
| 14 | Beaumont-le-Roger Eure | 1.2 | 79% | 2% | 50 km |
| 15 | Charolles Saône-et-Loire | 1.2 | 20% | 0% | 320 km |
| 16 | Mussidan Dordogne | 1.1 | 13% | 1.7% | 75 km |
| 17 | Saint-Aignan Loir-et-Cher | 1 | 31% | 0% | 218 km |
| 18 | La Fère Aisne | 0.9 | 12% | 11% | 134 km |
| 19 | Ducey-Les Chéris Manche | 0.9 | 13% | 7.8% | 5.3 km |
| 20 | Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 100% | 40 km |
| 21 | Amancy Haute-Savoie | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 271 km |
| 22 | Chocques Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 17% | 0% | 57 km |
| 23 | Connerré Sarthe | 0.7 | 23% | 0% | 144 km |
| 24 | Arcis-sur-Aube Aube | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 256 km |
| 25 | Meslay-du-Maine Mayenne | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 96 km |
| 26 | Marigny-Le-Lozon Manche | 0.7 | 0.2% | 46% | 21 km |
| 27 | Bourron-Marlotte Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 42% | 22% | 211 km |
| 28 | Dieuze Moselle | 0.6 | 21% | 24% | 380 km |
| 29 | Montignac-Lascaux Dordogne | 0.5 | 52% | 1.6% | 138 km |
| 30 | Longny les Villages Orne | 0.5 | 35% | 100% | 104 km |
| 31 | Baixas Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0% | 3.9% | 19 km |
| 32 | Wassy Haute-Marne | 0.5 | 61% | 0% | 302 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 | Thuré Vienne | 0.2 | 29% | 0% | 136 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 Chocques
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Roquelaure leads, at 308 ha. Directions go to 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, 11 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
11 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
6 km of footpaths cross Chocques
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
6 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.5 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
17%
about 1.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ChocquesPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0.6
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ChocquesPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Woodland17%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 76% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 57% 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 Chocques is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Ollain - Béthune11 km
Béthune - Ollain1.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Chocques: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Fiefs, 18 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 | 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 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 104 | 87 | 76 | 64 | 76 | 74 | 81 | 85 | 83 | 101 | 113 | 126 |
April is the driest month (64 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 126 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 53 nights a year. The climate in Chocques →
Neighbors
Next to Chocques
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GonnehemAnnezinLapugnoyAllouagneBéthuneVerquinChocques
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Lapugnoy 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 Chocques
Is Chocques in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais de Cambrin, Annequin, Cuinchy et Festubert nature reserve, 11 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Chocques?
OpenStreetMap maps 6 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Chocques is woodland?
17% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Chocques near the sea?
No: the coast is 57 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Chocques?
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 4, 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.