First pick
Parc Germinal
Park or garden · 230 m outside the commune
12 ha1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
1.5 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Pierre André · CC BY-SA 4.03.2%woodland
Outdoors in Haisnes · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Haisnes is within 800 m of a park or wood
Haisnes has 5 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 3.2% of Haisnes. Footpaths add up to 15 km across Haisnes (2.7 km per km²). 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, 4.5 km
Woodland
3.2%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
2.7 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
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Germinal
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 Haisnes?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyMarais de Cambrin, Annequin, Cuinchy et Festubert nature reserve is 4.5 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland3.2% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Haisnes apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Haisnes 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
Woodland3.2%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
15out of 100
Footpaths2.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
69out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
77out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Haisnes has the 3rd most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,362 to 4,431 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Labège (3.9 km per km²) to Bastelicaccia (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Labège Haute-Garonne | 3.9 | 6.5% | 0% | 137 km |
| 2 | Château-Renault Indre-et-Loire | 2.9 | 7.9% | 0% | 203 km |
| 3 | Haisnes Pas-de-Calais | 2.7 | 3.2% | 0% | 67 km |
| 4 | Le Tréport Seine-Maritime | 2.6 | 4.9% | 3.1% | On it |
| 5 | Provin Nord | 2.4 | 4.7% | 0% | 69 km |
| 6 | Carignan-de-Bordeaux Gironde | 2.3 | 14% | 3.4% | 23 km |
| 7 | Aime-la-Plagne Savoie | 2.2 | 33% | 2.4% | 209 km |
| 8 | Serres-Castet Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 92 km |
| 9 | Pins-Justaret Haute-Garonne | 1.8 | 3% | 2.1% | 145 km |
| 10 | Ornans Doubs | 1.8 | 66% | 92% | 384 km |
| 11 | Cheval-Blanc Vaucluse | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 42 km |
| 12 | Le Château-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.5% | 50% | On it |
| 13 | Kaysersberg Vignoble Haut-Rhin | 1.5 | 69% | 100% | 464 km |
| 14 | La Tour-d'Aigues Vaucluse | 1.5 | 24% | 100% | 45 km |
| 15 | Ormes Loiret | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 198 km |
| 16 | Chazay-d'Azergues Rhône | 1.3 | 11% | 0% | 262 km |
| 17 | Cadenet Vaucluse | 1.1 | 28% | 100% | 42 km |
| 18 | Craon Mayenne | 1.1 | 1.4% | 0% | 92 km |
| 19 | La Brède Gironde | 1.1 | 46% | 6.5% | 37 km |
| 20 | Morlaàs Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 20% | 0% | 101 km |
| 21 | Ardres Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 1.9% | 5.1% | 13 km |
| 22 | Morigny-Champigny Essonne | 0.9 | 22% | 0.4% | 173 km |
| 23 | Ham Somme | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 111 km |
| 24 | Sierentz Haut-Rhin | 0.9 | 39% | 36% | 430 km |
| 25 | Villemoustaussou Aude | 0.8 | 4.8% | 0% | 63 km |
| 26 | Truchtersheim Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 1.2% | 0% | 438 km |
| 27 | Marckolsheim Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 37% | 47% | 475 km |
| 28 | Riec-sur-Bélon Finistère | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | On it |
| 29 | Langeais Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 71% | 100% | 163 km |
| 30 | Ghisonaccia Haute-Corse | 0.6 | 11% | 15% | On it |
| 31 | Carnoules Var | 0.6 | 43% | 21% | 21 km |
| 32 | Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 24% | 1.4% | 181 km |
| 33 | Saint-Georges-lès-Baillargeaux Vienne | 0.5 | 35% | 34% | 125 km |
| 34 | Millas Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 3.2% | 0.1% | 28 km |
| 35 | Sarralbe Moselle | 0.5 | 29% | 10% | 381 km |
| 36 | Montbeton Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 8% | 0% | 180 km |
| 37 | Angerville Essonne | 0.3 | 3.4% | 0% | 174 km |
| 38 | Prigonrieux Dordogne | 0.3 | 21% | 1.2% | 80 km |
| 39 | Miniac-Morvan Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.2 | 16% | 100% | 3.2 km |
| 40 | Mesnil-en-Ouche Eure | 0.2 | 13% | 0.4% | 55 km |
| 41 | Bastelicaccia Corse-du-Sud | 0 | 15% | 0.2% | 4.2 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 Haisnes
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Germinal leads, at 12 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de la fosse 6
Park or garden
3.9 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
0.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin public des Augustins
Park or garden · 350 m outside the commune
0.2 ha0.2 km of path
2.8 km northfrom 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, 4.5 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Marais de Cambrin, Annequin, Cuinchy et Festubert nature reserve
4.5 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
15 km of footpaths cross Haisnes
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
15 km
2.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.5 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
3.2%
about 0.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
HaisnesPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Footpaths2.7
Hiking routes0.8
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
HaisnesPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Woodland3.2%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 69% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 85% 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 Haisnes 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
Bully-Les-Mines - Terril 81A10 km
Béthune - Terril du Téléphérique8.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Haisnes: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Douai, 23 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 Haisnes →
Neighbors
Next to Haisnes
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Auchy-les-MinesDouvrinHulluchLa BasséeWinglesViolainesHaisnes
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Haisnes
Is Haisnes in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais de Cambrin, Annequin, Cuinchy et Festubert nature reserve, 4.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Haisnes?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 5 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Haisnes is woodland?
3.2% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Haisnes near the sea?
No: the coast is 67 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Haisnes?
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.