First pick
Forêt domaniale d'Olhain
Wood or forest
344 ha27.5 km of path
6 h 5 minto walk all 27.5 km of path
3.9 km south-westfrom the center
Allée du Train de Loos
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Floflo62 · CC BY-SA 4.015%woodland
Outdoors in Hersin-Coupigny · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Hersin-Coupigny is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Hersin-Coupigny; the nearest, Marais de Cambrin, Annequin, Cuinchy et Festubert nature reserve, is 9.1 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 2 km in Hersin-Coupigny. Mapped woodland covers 15% of Hersin-Coupigny. 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, 9.1 km
Woodland
15%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 km
1.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt domaniale d'Olhain
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 Hersin-Coupigny 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
Woodland15%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
54out of 100
Footpaths1.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
48out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
34out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Hersin-Coupigny has the 19th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,008 to 6,155 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux (5.7 km per km²) to Mesnils-sur-Iton (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux Isère | 5.7 | 52% | 71% | 207 km |
| 2 | Fouquières-lès-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 4.7 | 22% | 0% | 78 km |
| 3 | Le Barcarès Pyrénées-Orientales | 4.4 | 3.4% | 35% | On it |
| 4 | Quint-Fonsegrives Haute-Garonne | 4.4 | 9.5% | 0% | 139 km |
| 5 | Pecquencourt Nord | 4 | 24% | 9.5% | 93 km |
| 6 | Dourges Pas-de-Calais | 3.9 | 11% | 0% | 79 km |
| 7 | Blainville-sur-Orne Calvados | 3.9 | 7.2% | 0% | 7 km |
| 8 | Jonage Rhône | 3.6 | 16% | 33% | 260 km |
| 9 | Palavas-les-Flots Hérault | 3.6 | 0% | 72% | On it |
| 10 | Mutzig Bas-Rhin | 3.4 | 44% | 0% | 439 km |
| 11 | Ostricourt Nord | 3.2 | 34% | 0% | 78 km |
| 12 | Esbly Seine-et-Marne | 3 | 12% | 0% | 164 km |
| 13 | Bois-le-Roi Seine-et-Marne | 2.8 | 31% | 18% | 199 km |
| 14 | Mondonville Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 27% | 0% | 161 km |
| 15 | Prades Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.7 | 33% | 0.3% | 50 km |
| 16 | Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau Loire-Atlantique | 2.4 | 15% | 29% | 26 km |
| 17 | Trith-Saint-Léger Nord | 2.1 | 6.9% | 0% | 106 km |
| 18 | Haute-Goulaine Loire-Atlantique | 1.6 | 12% | 31% | 46 km |
| 19 | Hersin-Coupigny Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 15% | 0% | 68 km |
| 20 | Pierrefeu-du-Var Var | 1.6 | 24% | 28% | 13 km |
| 21 | Saint-Girons Ariège | 1.5 | 36% | 100% | 155 km |
| 22 | Oraison Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.4 | 45% | 29% | 78 km |
| 23 | Jouars-Pontchartrain Yvelines | 1.4 | 20% | 100% | 133 km |
| 24 | Le Castellet Var | 1.3 | 18% | 81% | 7.5 km |
| 25 | Mortagne-sur-Sèvre Vendée | 1.3 | 7.8% | 0% | 77 km |
| 26 | Sainte-Sigolène Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 40% | 1.3% | 188 km |
| 27 | Vendenheim Bas-Rhin | 1.3 | 21% | 0% | 443 km |
| 28 | Donzère Drôme | 1.2 | 22% | 8.5% | 110 km |
| 29 | Vaison-la-Romaine Vaucluse | 1.2 | 29% | 100% | 90 km |
| 30 | Pavilly Seine-Maritime | 1 | 21% | 0% | 36 km |
| 31 | Marly-la-Ville Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 5.5% | 0% | 135 km |
| 32 | Gévezé Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.9 | 4% | 0% | 34 km |
| 33 | Saint-Cannat Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 21% | 34% | 29 km |
| 34 | Luc-la-Primaube Aveyron | 0.8 | 7.6% | 0% | 131 km |
| 35 | Maule Yvelines | 0.7 | 15% | 0% | 124 km |
| 36 | Commentry Allier | 0.5 | 13% | 0% | 288 km |
| 37 | Bouillargues Gard | 0.5 | 0.8% | 29% | 37 km |
| 38 | Noves Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 5.9% | 7% | 46 km |
| 39 | Beauvoisin Gard | 0.4 | 7.3% | 46% | 25 km |
| 40 | Vexin-sur-Epte Eure | 0.3 | 16% | 2.2% | 91 km |
| 41 | Mesnils-sur-Iton Eure | 0.2 | 13% | 0% | 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 Hersin-Coupigny
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale d'Olhain leads, at 344 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin Public
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Hersin-Coupigny
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, 9.1 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
9.1 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
20 km of footpaths cross Hersin-Coupigny
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
20 km
1.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
2 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
15%
about 2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Hersin-CoupignyPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Footpaths1.6
Hiking routes0.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Hersin-CoupignyPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Woodland15%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 52% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 54% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Hersin-Coupigny’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Béthune - Ollain11 km
Dennebrœucq - Mont de Justice7.7 km
Via Francigena France 01, Calais - Arras7.7 km
Mont de Justice - Ollain7.3 km
Ollain - Béthune0.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Hersin-Coupigny: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Arras, 26 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 Hersin-Coupigny →
Neighbors
Next to Hersin-Coupigny
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Sains-en-GohelleBarlinNœux-les-MinesBully-les-MinesAix-NouletteMazingarbeHersin-Coupigny
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hersin-Coupigny | 0% | 15% | 1.6 |
| Sains-en-Gohelle 5,948 · 2.2 km | 0% | 1.5% | 1.7 |
| Barlin 7,331 · 2.8 km | 0% | 5.8% | 2.9 |
| Nœux-les-Mines 11,590 · 3.1 km | 0% | 4.6% | 2.4 |
| Bully-les-Mines 12,146 · 5.1 km | 0% | 3.1% | 3.4 |
| Aix-Noulette 3,902 · 5.1 km | 0% | 16% | 1.3 |
| Mazingarbe 8,217 · 5.4 km | 0% | 7.4% | 2.9 |
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 Hersin-Coupigny
Is Hersin-Coupigny in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais de Cambrin, Annequin, Cuinchy et Festubert nature reserve, 9.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Hersin-Coupigny?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Hersin-Coupigny is woodland?
15% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Hersin-Coupigny near the sea?
No: the coast is 68 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Hersin-Coupigny?
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.