First pick
Les Jardins de la Baie Saint-Jean
Park or garden · 310 m outside the commune
1.3 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
2.3 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: René Desclée (°Tournai 1868 - †Tournai 1953). Voir Base AUTOR : base biographique.→ http://www2.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/autor_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_98=REF&VALUE_98=AW00110 https://mediatheque-patrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/collection/objet/rene-des… · Public domain100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Wimille · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Wimille lies inside Caps et Marais d’Opale Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Wimille’s land. Wimille has 18 km of waymarked hiking routes. 5.1% of Wimille is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
5.1%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
24 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
18 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: Les Jardins de la Baie Saint-Jean
The sea
1.8 km
from the town center to the coast
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 Wimille?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Caps et Marais d’Opale Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On waymarked routes18 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Near the seaThe coast is 1.8 km from the town center.
What sets Wimille apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Wimille 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
94out of 100
Woodland5.1%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
23out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
34out 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
Wimille has the 19th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,836 to 3,893 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Palais-sur-Mer (5.1 km per km²) to Pipriac (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Palais-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 5.1 | 58% | 55% | On it |
| 2 | Beaulieu-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes | 4.2 | 0.2% | 0.9% | On it |
| 3 | Réhon Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.8 | 42% | 0% | 277 km |
| 4 | La Bresse Vosges | 3.5 | 58% | 100% | 450 km |
| 5 | Fraisses Loire | 2.7 | 33% | 0% | 203 km |
| 6 | La Plagne Tarentaise Savoie | 2.7 | 30% | 2.5% | 208 km |
| 7 | Pringy Seine-et-Marne | 2.6 | 24% | 100% | 189 km |
| 8 | Belz Morbihan | 2.4 | 25% | 13% | On it |
| 9 | Pleumeur-Bodou Côtes-d'Armor | 2.2 | 26% | 17% | On it |
| 10 | Bénodet Finistère | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | On it |
| 11 | Vagney Vosges | 1.9 | 59% | 100% | 440 km |
| 12 | Meyrargues Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.8 | 57% | 46% | 35 km |
| 13 | Saint-Valery-en-Caux Seine-Maritime | 1.8 | 4.3% | 3.2% | On it |
| 14 | Le Vigan Gard | 1.7 | 68% | 100% | 57 km |
| 15 | Saint-Cergues Haute-Savoie | 1.6 | 42% | 19% | 288 km |
| 16 | Sargé-lès-le-Mans Sarthe | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 136 km |
| 17 | Châteaubernard Charente | 1.5 | 1.2% | 1.6% | 44 km |
| 18 | Fléac Charente | 1.4 | 12% | 3.7% | 71 km |
| 19 | Genilac Loire | 1.3 | 14% | 0% | 223 km |
| 20 | La Croix-Valmer Var | 1.3 | 40% | 95% | On it |
| 21 | Ribécourt-Dreslincourt Oise | 1.2 | 37% | 1.5% | 116 km |
| 22 | Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon Essonne | 1.1 | 28% | 0% | 167 km |
| 23 | Wimille Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 5.1% | 100% | 1.8 km |
| 24 | Saint-Léger-de-Linières Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 27% | 0% | 109 km |
| 25 | Tavaux Jura | 0.9 | 10% | 0% | 398 km |
| 26 | Violaines Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 4.8% | 0% | 63 km |
| 27 | Hasnon Nord | 0.8 | 47% | 100% | 94 km |
| 28 | Le Val-d'Ajol Vosges | 0.8 | 53% | 100% | 431 km |
| 29 | Blainville-sur-l'Eau Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 388 km |
| 30 | Lapalud Vaucluse | 0.6 | 5% | 6.7% | 96 km |
| 31 | Prunelli-di-Fiumorbo Haute-Corse | 0.5 | 36% | 100% | On it |
| 32 | Villieu-Loyes-Mollon Ain | 0.4 | 24% | 17% | 276 km |
| 33 | Saint-Georges-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 7.3% | 7.3% | 101 km |
| 34 | Ferrières-en-Gâtinais Loiret | 0.4 | 19% | 0% | 233 km |
| 35 | Lherm Haute-Garonne | 0.3 | 6.9% | 0% | 156 km |
| 36 | Mazères Ariège | 0.3 | 2% | 0.5% | 116 km |
| 37 | Jonquières-Saint-Vincent Gard | 0.3 | 0.1% | 29% | 41 km |
| 38 | Saint-Gildas-des-Bois Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 12% | 3.5% | 25 km |
| 39 | Terranjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 118 km |
| 40 | Bosroumois Eure | 0.2 | 1.5% | 0% | 44 km |
| 41 | Pipriac Ille-et-Vilaine | 0 | 3.5% | 0% | 48 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 Wimille
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Les Jardins de la Baie Saint-Jean leads, at 1.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Wimille
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Caps et Marais d’Opale Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Falaises et dunes de Wimereux, estuaire de la Slack, Garennes et Communaux d’Ambleteuse-Audresselles
2.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
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 Wimille’s land is protected, more than in 94% 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.
Footpaths and woods
24 km of footpaths and 18 km of hiking routes cross Wimille
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
24 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
18 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
5.1%
about 1.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
WimillePas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0.8
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
WimillePas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Woodland5.1%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 77% 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 Wimille is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
10 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 12013 km
Ceinture de Boulogne20 km
Le Mont Duez14 km
Le Parcours Impérial14 km
Tour du Boulonnais11 km
Les Deux Wims6.6 km
La Baie Saint-Jean4.7 km
Le Rendal4.1 km
Les Voyettes2.9 km
Ambleteuse Cité Historique2.6 km
GR 120 passes within 2 km of Wimille.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Wimille: May to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Boulogne-Sem, 3.3 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 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 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 Wimille →
Neighbors
Next to Wimille
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
WimereuxSaint-Martin-BoulogneBoulogne-sur-MerLe PortelOutreauSaint-LéonardWimille
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wimille | 100% | 5.1% | 1.1 | 1.8 km |
| Wimereux 6,256 · 2.5 km | 100% | 3.6% | 3.9 | On it |
| Saint-Martin-Boulogne 10,888 · 3.4 km | 0.1% | 8.3% | 1.7 | 2.1 km |
| Boulogne-sur-Mer 40,539 · 3.7 km | 0% | 1.3% | 5.8 | On it |
| Le Portel 8,768 · 6.1 km | 6.7% | 3.3% | 5.5 | On it |
| Outreau 13,138 · 6.3 km | 0% | 4.8% | 2.6 | 1.7 km |
| Saint-Léonard 3,353 · 7 km | 0.2% | 7.5% | 0.9 | 4 km |
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 Wimille
Is Wimille in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Wimille lies in Caps et Marais d’Opale Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Wimille?
OpenStreetMap maps 24 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 18 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Wimille is woodland?
5.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Wimille near the sea?
No: the coast is 1.8 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Wimille?
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 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.