Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Within 5 km lie 4 beaches, unnamed on the map. Out to 10 km from the town’s edge, 5% of the land is protected; 2.3% is typical for a Canadian town. Biggest among them: Île d'Orléans (ouest du pont) Water Fowl Gathering Area, 325 ha, 6.1 km off.
Each figure against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (not city hubs or reserves), with the town marked and the typical one’s line. Outdoors isn’t one of Canada’s graded subjects, so there’s no letter here: each figure is set against other Canadian towns instead.
CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC, 2026), OpenStreetMap (November 2026). Distances from the town’s outline.
The 40 Canadian towns nearest in population (14,961 to 15,514 residents), by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected. Hover for each one’s figures; click for its page.
Against towns its size, Lairet does best for protected land nearby: 13 of the other 39 have more.
| Town | Protected within 10 km | In town | Areas | Routes | Beaches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whistler BC | 56% | 26% | 11 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | Pincourt QC | 33% | 0.6% | 38 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Lachine-Ouest QC | 19% | 0.1% | 28 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | Beauharnois QC | 17% | 2.2% | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Les Rapides QC | 16% | 0% | 34 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Arbutus Ridge BC | 15% | 0% | 12 | 2 | 62 |
| 7 | Gaspé QC | 13% | 21% | 41 | 13 | 51 |
| 8 | Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant ON | 8.1% | 0% | 14 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Dupéré QC | 7.7% | 0% | 23 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Pointe-Saint-Charles QC | 7.7% | 0% | 24 | 1 | 6 |
| 11 | Vieux-Longueuil QC | 6.4% | 0% | 24 | 0 | 5 |
| 12 | Lougheed BC | 5.6% | 0% | 53 | 2 | 49 |
| 13 | Saint-François QC | 5.4% | 1% | 56 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Lairet QC | 5% | 0% | 15 | 0 | 4 |
| 15 | Sainte-Adèle QC | 4.8% | 8% | 24 | 1 | 5 |
| 16 | Parksville BC | 4.4% | 13% | 24 | 0 | 11 |
| 17 | Vallée-de-la-Lièvre QC | 4.3% | 16% | 39 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Lachute QC | 3.5% | 0.9% | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Buttonville ON | 3.2% | 0% | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Limoges ON | 3.1% | 5.7% | 31 | 0 | 2 |
| 21 | Royal Orchard ON | 3% | 0% | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | François-Perrault QC | 2.6% | 0% | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Taylor-Massey ON | 2.3% | 13% | 12 | 1 | 15 |
| 24 | Doon South ON | 2.3% | 16% | 22 | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | Springbrook ON | 2.2% | 15% | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Byron ON | 2.1% | 0% | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | Pleasant View ON | 1.9% | 0% | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | East Willowdale ON | 1.7% | 0% | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Lawrence Park South ON | 1.7% | 0% | 15 | 2 | 1 |
| 30 | Hamilton Road ON | 1.7% | 0% | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Stonebridge SK | 1.7% | 0% | 18 | 0 | 1 |
| 32 | Saint-Vincent-de-Paul QC | 1.5% | 0% | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Pembroke ON | 1% | 0% | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| 34 | Campbellford ON | 0.8% | 0.5% | 24 | 7 | 0 |
| 35 | Dorchester ON | 0.6% | 1% | 17 | 2 | 2 |
| 36 | High River AB | 0.6% | 0% | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Central Elgin ON | 0.2% | 0.3% | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| 38 | Edenbridge-Humber Valley ON | 0.2% | 2.1% | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| 39 | Laurel AB | 0.2% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 40 | Edgemont AB | 0% | 0% | 1 | 0 | 2 |
The neighbourhood’s parks, woods, protected land and paths, with its named places numbered.
Parc linéaire de la rivière Saint-Charles is the largest, at 90 ha; the rest follow by size, numbered as on the map.
Parc linéaire de la rivière Saint-Charles plus Parc Cartier-Brébeuf account for 90% of the green.
Source: OpenStreetMap parks, gardens, commons and woods with a name, in the town or within 400 m, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Sizes are the mapped outline’s.
Residents of each 2021 dissemination area, at a point inside it, within 400 m (about a 5-minute walk) of a park or playing field mapped on OpenStreetMap.
For about 1,500 people, the nearest park is over 400 m away. A typical Canadian town reaches only 83%.
Every protected and conserved area in CPCAD within 10 km of the town’s edge: parks, reserves, wildlife areas and conservation land.
Public bodies own 10 of the 15; land trusts and private owners hold the others. Île d'Orléans (ouest du pont) Water Fowl Gathering Area is the biggest, 325 ha. Another 5 are privately owned conservation land; they count in the figures but aren’t named, as private land isn’t a place to visit.
Source: Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD) 2.9.0, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
National parks (Parks Canada) and provincial or territorial parks by direction and distance from the town’s edge: every one within 10 km, and the nearest of each within 100 km.
No national park lies within 100 km of Lairet; the provincial parks are the big protected land within reach. In Québec, a parc national is a provincial park (Sépaq), not one of Parks Canada’s.
Source: CPCAD 2.9.0 (ECCC): areas and outlines, distances outline to outline; directions from the town’s centre point.
OpenStreetMap footpaths, paths, bridleways and steps, and tracks open on foot, in the town and 1 km around it; woods as mapped (landuse=forest, natural=wood).
For woods, 76% of Canadian towns have more. Paths are denser here than in 59% of Canadian towns.
Source: OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Mapping varies by place: a dense figure can mean keen local mappers as much as many paths.
Named walking and hiking routes on OpenStreetMap with at least 300 m within 2 km of the town, longest first; national routes lead.
Nothing near the neighbourhood is mapped as a named walking route, which often means the trails just haven’t been entered as routes.
Source: OpenStreetMap (route relations hiking, foot and walking), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Trans Canada Trail sections as OSM maps them.
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals from Quebec Jean Lesage (Airport) (11 km), and daylight at the town’s latitude. Good months: 12½+ hours of daylight, highs of 15–30 °C, little rain.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.9 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | -7 | -5 | 1 | 8 | 18 | 23 | 25 | 24 | 19 | 11 | 4 | -3 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 87 | 66 | 78 | 94 | 92 | 115 | 119 | 109 | 111 | 116 | 91 | 96 |
Some 299 cm of snow falls each winter. Summer highs reach 25 °C in July; in January they stay near -7 °C. The wettest month is the warmest, July (119 mm); February has 66 mm. The climate in Lairet →
Beaches on OpenStreetMap within 5 km of the town’s edge, nearest first, with directions.
For water quality, look to the local health unit: no open beach-testing data covers Canada.
Source: OpenStreetMap (natural=beach), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Viewpoints, peaks, waterfalls, picnic sites, nature reserves, playgrounds, dog parks, campsites and boat launches mapped within 2 km of the town.
The map shows 76 playgrounds, ahead of the rest.
Plus 9 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Plus 75 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Plus 1 slipway without a name on the map.
Source: OpenStreetMap (tourism, natural, waterway and leisure tags), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Gardens and arboretums within 15 km of the town’s edge, and the historic gardens, parks and estates in the town itself, nearest first.
Sources: OpenStreetMap (leisure=garden), © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, and Wikidata (CC0), as gathered in TownRatings’ Canadian attractions set; historic places from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places and Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel.
The nearest places, coloured by the share of the land within 10 km that is protected; tap one for its outdoors page.
| Town | Protected within 10 km | Areas | Routes | Beaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lairet | 5% | 15 | 0 | 4 |
| Vieux-Limoilou 1.4 km | 4.9% | 17 | 1 | 7 |
| Saint-Rodrigue 1.5 km | 4.8% | 15 | 1 | 4 |
| Maizerets 1.7 km | 5.2% | 17 | 0 | 6 |
| Vanier 2.2 km | 4.2% | 15 | 1 | 3 |
| Saint-Roch 2.6 km | 5.1% | 17 | 1 | 3 |
| Jésuites 2.7 km | 4.6% | 17 | 1 | 6 |
No place nearby has double Lairet’s share of protected land.
Jacques-Cartier National Park (Québec), 30 km away.
Île d'Orléans (ouest du pont) Water Fowl Gathering Area: 325 ha, a wildlife area.
May and August: long days, mild highs and little rain.
There are beaches within 5 km, none of them named.
Within 10 km, 5% of the land lies in protected areas.
No national park lies within 100 km of Lairet.
Protected areas: Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD) 2.9.0, Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2026: every area within 10 km and the nearest national and provincial parks, measured outline to outline.
Walking routes and beaches: OpenStreetMap, November 2026: named hiking, foot and walking route relations within 2 km and beaches within 5 km.
Towns: Statistics Canada 2021 Census boundaries and populations; the comparison is the Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, not city hubs or reserves.
When to go: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, from the nearest station that publishes them.
Gardens: OpenStreetMap (leisure=garden) and Wikidata gardens within 15 km, as gathered in TownRatings’ Canadian attractions set; historic gardens and parks from Canada’s heritage registers (Parks Canada DFHD, the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel).
Green space, paths, woods, things to do: OpenStreetMap (Geofabrik’s Canada extract), November 2026: parks, gardens, playing fields, woods, footpaths, the coastline and things to do in and around each town.
Residents: Statistics Canada 2021 Census dissemination areas (population, boundaries), each at a point inside it.
Walking routes and beaches © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).
Not on this page: trailheads and trail grades, and beach water quality. No open Canadian dataset gives these for every town yet.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).