First pick
Parc Thermal
Park or garden
28 ha6.6 km of path
1 h 30 minto walk all 6.6 km of path
0.9 km north-westfrom the center
Avenue du Casino
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Fuinius · CC BY-SA 3.023%woodland
Outdoors in Vittel · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Vittel
Vittel has 24 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 23% of Vittel. No protected area reaches Vittel; the nearest, Gîtes à chiroptères de la Vôge (Natura 2000), is 11 km from the town center. 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: Gîtes à chiroptères de la Vôge, 11 km
Woodland
23%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
26 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
24 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
92%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
Throughout this page, the Vosges 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 Vittel 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
Woodland23%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
67out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
34out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
83out of 100
Green space nearby92%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
9out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Vittel has the 17th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,743 to 4,817 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Marolles-en-Brie (6.1 km per km²) to Sanilhac (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marolles-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.1 | 42% | 0% | 169 km |
| 2 | Pompey Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.3 | 68% | 0% | 356 km |
| 3 | Chasseneuil-du-Poitou Vienne | 3.4 | 6.9% | 30% | 121 km |
| 4 | Teyran Hérault | 3.2 | 11% | 10% | 15 km |
| 5 | Dagneux Ain | 2.5 | 18% | 0% | 266 km |
| 6 | Écouflant Maine-et-Loire | 2.1 | 10% | 46% | 123 km |
| 7 | Ingersheim Haut-Rhin | 2 | 17% | 1.3% | 469 km |
| 8 | L'Horme Loire | 2 | 3.4% | 0% | 217 km |
| 9 | Robion Vaucluse | 1.8 | 24% | 100% | 48 km |
| 10 | La Haie-Fouassière Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 12% | 0% | 47 km |
| 11 | La Grand-Combe Gard | 1.7 | 71% | 0% | 73 km |
| 12 | Saint-Martin-des-Champs Finistère | 1.7 | 17% | 1.4% | On it |
| 13 | Charly Rhône | 1.7 | 0.2% | 0% | 239 km |
| 14 | Locminé Morbihan | 1.6 | 7.8% | 0% | 24 km |
| 15 | Rilhac-Rancon Haute-Vienne | 1.6 | 33% | 0% | 170 km |
| 16 | Marvejols Lozère | 1.6 | 19% | 0.1% | 125 km |
| 17 | Bourgbarré Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 18 | Limas Rhône | 1.4 | 8.5% | 0% | 273 km |
| 19 | Sadirac Gironde | 1.4 | 37% | 3.6% | 29 km |
| 20 | Saint-Romain-de-Colbosc Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 3.5% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 21 | Verneuil-en-Halatte Oise | 1.3 | 49% | 58% | 117 km |
| 22 | Le Coudray-Montceaux Essonne | 1.2 | 19% | 0% | 182 km |
| 23 | Cléon Seine-Maritime | 1.1 | 16% | 2% | 51 km |
| 24 | Cerizay Deux-Sèvres | 1.1 | 3.5% | 0% | 67 km |
| 25 | Vittel Vosges | 1.1 | 23% | 0% | 381 km |
| 26 | Milizac-Guipronvel Finistère | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 9.1 km |
| 27 | Tinchebray-Bocage Orne | 0.8 | 4.9% | 0% | 48 km |
| 28 | Casteljaloux Lot-et-Garonne | 0.7 | 49% | 0.8% | 94 km |
| 29 | La Plaine-sur-Mer Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 6% | 0.1% | On it |
| 30 | Maraussan Hérault | 0.6 | 1.3% | 0% | 17 km |
| 31 | Les Monts d'Aunay Calvados | 0.6 | 23% | 25% | 37 km |
| 32 | Venansault Vendée | 0.5 | 6.2% | 0% | 27 km |
| 33 | La Ferté-Gaucher Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 7.6% | 0% | 195 km |
| 34 | Ruy-Montceau Isère | 0.4 | 21% | 12% | 240 km |
| 35 | Saint-Germain-du-Puy Cher | 0.4 | 7.4% | 0% | 290 km |
| 36 | Billom Puy-de-Dôme | 0.4 | 7.1% | 100% | 247 km |
| 37 | Argenton-sur-Creuse Indre | 0.3 | 25% | 3.9% | 205 km |
| 38 | Saverdun Ariège | 0.2 | 13% | 0.7% | 123 km |
| 39 | Legé Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 33 km |
| 40 | Salbris Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 81% | 100% | 256 km |
| 41 | Sanilhac Dordogne | 0.1 | 56% | 0% | 105 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 Vittel
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Thermal leads, at 28 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Plaine de jardins
Park or garden
3.8 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
2.2 km northfrom the center
Chemin de la Tuilerie
Directionsto a point inside
Vit Tel ta Nature
Park or garden
3 ha0.2 km of path
2.5 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Vittel live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
92% within 800 m8.5% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
VittelVosges medianFrance median
Within 800 m92%
0%50%100%
About 400 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
Gîtes à chiroptères de la Vôge 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.
Natura 2000 site
Gîtes à chiroptères de la Vôge
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
26 km of footpaths and 24 km of hiking routes cross Vittel
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
26 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
24 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
23%
about 5.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
VittelVosges medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
VittelVosges medianFrance median
Woodland23%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 67% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 50714 km
GR 71413 km
Variante Temps Pluvieux1.7 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Vittel: GR 507 and GR 714.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Vittel: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bains, 32 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) | 8.8 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 132 | 106 | 108 | 87 | 116 | 90 | 96 | 99 | 105 | 127 | 138 | 154 |
April is the driest month (87 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 154 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 85 nights a year. The climate in Vittel →
Neighbors
Next to Vittel
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ContrexévilleMirecourtNeufchâteauVittel
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vittel | 0% | 23% | 1.1 |
| Contrexéville 2,923 · 4.4 km | 0% | 34% | 1.1 |
| Mirecourt 4,700 · 18 km | 0% | 20% | 1 |
| Neufchâteau 6,732 · 25 km | 0% | 33% | 0.8 |
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 Vittel
Is Vittel in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Gîtes à chiroptères de la Vôge, 11 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Vittel?
OpenStreetMap maps 26 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); 24 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Vittel is woodland?
23% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Vittel near the sea?
No: the coast is 381 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Vittel?
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 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.