Photo: Amélie Tsaag Valren · CC BY-SA 4.0Samer lies inside Caps et Marais d’Opale Regional Nature Park
100% of Samer’s land lies in protected areas. Samer has 19 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 6 km across Samer (0.3 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is Samer?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Samer apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Samer 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Samer has the 2nd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,668 to 4,740 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Ban-Saint-Martin (4.6 km per km²) to Saint-Georges-de-Reneins (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Ban-Saint-Martin Moselle | 4.6 | 27% | 0% | 326 km |
| 2 | Bavilliers Territoire de Belfort | 4.6 | 16% | 0% | 430 km |
| 3 | L'Huisserie Mayenne | 3.8 | 16% | 0% | 80 km |
| 4 | Munster Haut-Rhin | 3.6 | 55% | 100% | 464 km |
| 5 | Bièvres Essonne | 3.5 | 31% | 0% | 154 km |
| 6 | Sequedin Nord | 3.3 | 5.9% | 0% | 60 km |
| 7 | Le Trait Seine-Maritime | 3.1 | 63% | 100% | 33 km |
| 8 | Sangatte Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 1.7% | 99% | On it |
| 9 | Reichstett Bas-Rhin | 2.9 | 18% | 0% | 446 km |
| 10 | L'Hermitage Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.8 | 4.9% | 0% | 43 km |
| 11 | La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.7 | 3% | 0% | 40 km |
| 12 | Ribeauvillé Haut-Rhin | 2.7 | 72% | 100% | 461 km |
| 13 | Hallennes-lez-Haubourdin Nord | 2.7 | 1.3% | 0% | 61 km |
| 14 | Chavagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.4 | 8% | 0% | 51 km |
| 15 | Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 5.8% | 0% | 258 km |
| 16 | Village-Neuf Haut-Rhin | 2.2 | 9% | 36% | 424 km |
| 17 | Clohars-Carnoët Finistère | 2 | 24% | 1.3% | On it |
| 18 | Soufflenheim Bas-Rhin | 1.8 | 46% | 0.8% | 444 km |
| 19 | Viuz-en-Sallaz Haute-Savoie | 1.5 | 40% | 0% | 278 km |
| 20 | Grésy-sur-Aix Savoie | 1.3 | 26% | 1.2% | 248 km |
| 21 | Vermelles Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 0.5% | 0% | 67 km |
| 22 | Saint-Paul-en-Jarez Loire | 1 | 18% | 97% | 217 km |
| 23 | Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 14% | 0% | 47 km |
| 24 | Mirecourt Vosges | 1 | 20% | 0% | 386 km |
| 25 | Graveson Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 10% | 0% | 45 km |
| 26 | Rognes Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 51% | 12% | 34 km |
| 27 | Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis Charente-Maritime | 0.9 | 3.1% | 0% | 12 km |
| 28 | La Charité-sur-Loire Nièvre | 0.8 | 9.6% | 13% | 319 km |
| 29 | Flayosc Var | 0.8 | 36% | 0% | 32 km |
| 30 | Bourbon-Lancy Saône-et-Loire | 0.7 | 21% | 13% | 341 km |
| 31 | La Suze-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 0.6 | 31% | 0% | 132 km |
| 32 | Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas Gard | 0.6 | 4.6% | 0% | 59 km |
| 33 | Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.5 | 4.3% | 0.1% | On it |
| 34 | Phalsbourg Moselle | 0.5 | 19% | 25% | 411 km |
| 35 | Beuzeville Eure | 0.4 | 2.8% | 0% | 10 km |
| 36 | Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire Charente | 0.4 | 3.4% | 7.8% | 46 km |
| 37 | Fumel Lot-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 33% | 0.1% | 135 km |
| 38 | Aigondigné Deux-Sèvres | 0.4 | 1.6% | 61% | 66 km |
| 39 | Herrlisheim Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 6.9% | 3.3% | 448 km |
| 40 | Samer Pas-de-Calais | 0.3 | 20% | 100% | 12 km |
| 41 | Saint-Georges-de-Reneins Rhône | 0.3 | 10% | 25% | 282 km |
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.
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Samer
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Cappe leads, at 37 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin public
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected land in and around Samer
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Caps et Marais d’Opale Regional Nature Park
Molinet nature reserve
Pelouses et bois neutrocalcicoles de la cuesta sud du Boulonnais
Share of the commune’s land
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.
100% of Samer’s land is protected, more than in 99% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Pas-de-Calais has 0%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
6 km of footpaths and 19 km of hiking routes cross Samer
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 92% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 63% 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 Samer is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
10 named hiking routes within 2 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Samer: GR 127A and GR 121.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Samer: May to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Boulogne-Sem, 15 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) | 7 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 77 | 56 | 48 | 48 | 55 | 48 | 54 | 63 | 70 | 96 | 107 | 103 |
March is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 21 °C). 107 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 19 nights a year. The climate in Samer →
Next to Samer
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samer | 100% | 20% | 0.3 | 12 km |
| Desvres 4,829 · 7 km | 100% | 56% | 1 | 18 km |
| Neufchâtel-Hardelot 4,115 · 9.2 km | 100% | 27% | 2.5 | On it |
| Saint-Étienne-au-Mont 5,029 · 10 km | 100% | 35% | 2.8 | On it |
| Saint-Léonard 3,353 · 10 km | 0.2% | 7.5% | 0.9 | 4 km |
| Camiers 2,582 · 13 km | 32% | 30% | 2 | On it |
| Saint-Martin-Boulogne 10,888 · 13 km | 0.1% | 8.3% | 1.7 | 2.1 km |
Desvres, Saint-Étienne-au-Mont and Camiers are more wooded.
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 Samer
Is Samer in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Samer lies in Caps et Marais d’Opale Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Samer?
OpenStreetMap maps 6 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 19 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Samer is woodland?
20% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Samer near the sea?
No: the coast is 12 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Samer?
May to August: 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 8, 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.