First pick
Parc du Château de Bienassis
Wood or forest
44 ha
5.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Rémih · CC BY-SA 4.015%of the land protected
Outdoors in Erquy · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Erquy is on the coast
Protected areas cover 15% of Erquy’s land. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 16 km in Erquy. 6.8% of Erquy is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
15%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
6.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
36 km
1.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
16 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: Parc du Château de Bienassis
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 0.9 km from its center
Throughout this page, the Côtes-d'Armor 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 Erquy 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 areas15%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
76out of 100
Woodland6.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
30out of 100
Footpaths1.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
43out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
67out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Erquy has the 12th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,953 to 3,996 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Nabord (2.1 km per km²) to Aiguillon (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Nabord Vosges | 2.1 | 62% | 3.6% | 429 km |
| 2 | Allevard Isère | 2 | 55% | 0% | 211 km |
| 3 | Pujaut Gard | 2 | 10% | 0% | 62 km |
| 4 | Condrieu Rhône | 2 | 20% | 100% | 219 km |
| 5 | Mozac Puy-de-Dôme | 2 | 1.7% | 0% | 270 km |
| 6 | Toufflers Nord | 1.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 65 km |
| 7 | Pléneuf-Val-André Côtes-d'Armor | 1.8 | 10% | 2.6% | On it |
| 8 | Oberhoffen-sur-Moder Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 25% | 11% | 442 km |
| 9 | Hondschoote Nord | 1.6 | 0% | 0% | 12 km |
| 10 | Argences Calvados | 1.5 | 16% | 0% | 18 km |
| 11 | Porte-de-Savoie Savoie | 1.4 | 18% | 86% | 224 km |
| 12 | Erquy Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 6.8% | 15% | On it |
| 13 | Duclair Seine-Maritime | 1.3 | 8.1% | 100% | 37 km |
| 14 | Quévert Côtes-d'Armor | 1.3 | 12% | 100% | 6.9 km |
| 15 | Allaire Morbihan | 1.2 | 17% | 6.3% | 22 km |
| 16 | Boos Seine-Maritime | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 60 km |
| 17 | Rousies Nord | 1.2 | 20% | 100% | 132 km |
| 18 | Ingwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 61% | 100% | 414 km |
| 19 | La Gacilly Morbihan | 1.1 | 27% | 4.9% | 34 km |
| 20 | Fourchambault Nièvre | 1.1 | 16% | 11% | 332 km |
| 21 | Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 30% | 19% | 29 km |
| 22 | Plouvien Finistère | 1 | 9.4% | 0.6% | 3.9 km |
| 23 | Propriano Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 19% | 3.7% | On it |
| 24 | Fontaine-le-Comte Vienne | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 110 km |
| 25 | Semur-en-Auxois Côte-d'Or | 0.9 | 21% | 0% | 357 km |
| 26 | Cires-lès-Mello Oise | 0.8 | 36% | 0% | 112 km |
| 27 | Sailly-sur-la-Lys Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 1.3% | 0.9% | 51 km |
| 28 | Le Bignon Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 37 km |
| 29 | Maing Nord | 0.7 | 4.2% | 0% | 108 km |
| 30 | Villeveyrac Hérault | 0.6 | 7% | 85% | 12 km |
| 31 | Gourin Morbihan | 0.6 | 12% | 1.7% | 34 km |
| 32 | Le Lude Sarthe | 0.5 | 23% | 7.6% | 157 km |
| 33 | Saint-Fulgent Vendée | 0.5 | 5.8% | 0% | 57 km |
| 34 | Châtelaudren-Plouagat Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 35 | Verfeil Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 7.7% | 0% | 133 km |
| 36 | Poligny Jura | 0.4 | 77% | 0.1% | 368 km |
| 37 | Salses-le-Château Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 4.1% | 34% | 10 km |
| 38 | Grand Bourgtheroulde Eure | 0.3 | 4.2% | 0% | 40 km |
| 39 | Replonges Ain | 0.3 | 9.3% | 19% | 311 km |
| 40 | Saint-Chély-d'Apcher Lozère | 0.2 | 21% | 0% | 150 km |
| 41 | Aiguillon Lot-et-Garonne | 0.1 | 1.4% | 2.5% | 108 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 Erquy
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Château de Bienassis leads, at 44 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Cavé
Wood or forest
6.7 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
1.2 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
15% of Erquy lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Cap d’Erquy-Cap Fréhel
15% of the commune1.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Cap d’Erquy-Cap Fréhel
14% of the commune1.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Baie de Saint-Brieuc - Est
1.2 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Baie de Saint-Brieuc - Est
1.2 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area15%
Natura 2000 site15%
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.
15% of Erquy’s land is protected, more than in 76% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Côtes-d'Armor has 2%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
36 km of footpaths and 16 km of hiking routes cross Erquy
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
36 km
1.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
16 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
6.8%
about 1.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ErquyCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Footpaths1.4
Hiking routes0.6
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ErquyCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Woodland6.8%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 57% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 70% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of Erquy’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin des Douaniers, La Rance - Erquy, tracé principal16 km
Chemin des Douaniers, Erquy - Brehec6.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Erquy: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Quintenic, 12 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 66 | 59 | 53 | 59 | 57 | 54 | 49 | 52 | 61 | 85 | 90 | 86 |
July is the driest month (49 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 90 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 29 nights a year. The climate in Erquy →
Neighbors
Next to Erquy
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Pléneuf-Val-AndréSaint-Cast-le-GuildoLamballe-ArmorVal-d'ArguenonHillionPlancoëtErquy
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erquy | 15% | 6.8% | 1.4 | On it |
| Pléneuf-Val-André 3,988 · 8.1 km | 2.6% | 10% | 1.8 | On it |
| Saint-Cast-le-Guildo 3,371 · 15 km | 100% | 12% | 1.7 | On it |
| Lamballe-Armor 17,241 · 17 km | 2% | 5% | 0.8 | On it |
| Val-d'Arguenon 2,844 · 18 km | 0% | 9.5% | 0.6 | 6 km |
| Hillion 4,335 · 20 km | 9% | 6.9% | 1.6 | On it |
| Plancoët 3,104 · 21 km | 100% | 13% | 1.4 | 3.9 km |
Saint-Cast-le-Guildo and Plancoët have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Erquy
Is Erquy in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 15% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Erquy?
OpenStreetMap maps 36 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 16 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Erquy is woodland?
6.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Erquy near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 0.9 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Erquy?
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.