First pick
Parc au fil de l'eau
Park or garden · 100 m outside the commune
5.2 ha2.3 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.3 km of path
2.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Philiwik · CC BY-SA 3.09%of the land protected
Outdoors in Hillion · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Hillion is on the coast
Mapped woodland covers 6.9% of Hillion. Protected areas cover 9% of Hillion’s land. 38 km of footpaths cross Hillion (1.6 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
9%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
6.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
38 km
1.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
89%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 1.9 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 Hillion 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 areas9%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
71out of 100
Woodland6.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
30out of 100
Footpaths1.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
47out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
49out of 100
Green space nearby89%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
7out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Hillion has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,299 to 4,367 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sevrier (4.3 km per km²) to Buzançais (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sevrier Haute-Savoie | 4.3 | 49% | 100% | 255 km |
| 2 | Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost Ain | 4 | 21% | 17% | 262 km |
| 3 | Tigery Essonne | 3.6 | 41% | 0% | 176 km |
| 4 | Villard-de-Lans Isère | 3.4 | 57% | 100% | 188 km |
| 5 | Nilvange Moselle | 3.3 | 27% | 0% | 304 km |
| 6 | Gattières Alpes-Maritimes | 2.7 | 27% | 80% | 9.5 km |
| 7 | Niederbronn-les-Bains Bas-Rhin | 2.6 | 74% | 100% | 417 km |
| 8 | Poulx Gard | 2.5 | 0.1% | 56% | 47 km |
| 9 | Saulxures-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.3 | 31% | 0% | 369 km |
| 10 | Coignières Yvelines | 2.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 11 | Steenvoorde Nord | 1.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 29 km |
| 12 | Villeneuve Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 74 km |
| 13 | Cheval-Blanc Vaucluse | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 42 km |
| 14 | Is-sur-Tille Côte-d'Or | 1.6 | 41% | 0% | 388 km |
| 15 | Millery Rhône | 1.6 | 14% | 0% | 237 km |
| 16 | Hillion Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 6.9% | 9% | On it |
| 17 | Le Château-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.5% | 50% | On it |
| 18 | Le Val Var | 1.5 | 63% | 7.3% | 37 km |
| 19 | Louverné Mayenne | 1.5 | 3.9% | 0% | 74 km |
| 20 | Cadenet Vaucluse | 1.1 | 28% | 100% | 42 km |
| 21 | Camon Somme | 1.1 | 5.6% | 14% | 57 km |
| 22 | Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 38 km |
| 23 | Beaumont-lès-Valence Drôme | 0.8 | 9.8% | 0% | 157 km |
| 24 | Égletons Corrèze | 0.8 | 51% | 0.1% | 212 km |
| 25 | Chabanière Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 230 km |
| 26 | Morestel Isère | 0.8 | 16% | 12% | 252 km |
| 27 | Pons Charente-Maritime | 0.8 | 10% | 13% | 22 km |
| 28 | Langeais Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 71% | 100% | 163 km |
| 29 | Cours Rhône | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 283 km |
| 30 | Bessières Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.9% | 2.4% | 145 km |
| 31 | Friville-Escarbotin Somme | 0.5 | 2.1% | 100% | 7.2 km |
| 32 | Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 24% | 1.4% | 181 km |
| 33 | Saint-Savin Isère | 0.5 | 17% | 15% | 244 km |
| 34 | Sarralbe Moselle | 0.5 | 29% | 10% | 381 km |
| 35 | Valence-en-Poitou Vienne | 0.4 | 20% | 0% | 100 km |
| 36 | Ussac Corrèze | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 167 km |
| 37 | Montélier Drôme | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 38 | Rives de l'Yon Vendée | 0.3 | 7.1% | 0% | 25 km |
| 39 | Roullet-Saint-Estèphe Charente | 0.2 | 16% | 3.1% | 65 km |
| 40 | Bassillac et Auberoche Dordogne | 0.1 | 49% | 0% | 116 km |
| 41 | Buzançais Indre | 0.1 | 28% | 5.7% | 206 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 Hillion
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc au fil de l'eau leads, at 5.2 ha. Directions go to 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 Hillion 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).
89% within 800 m11% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
HillionCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Within 800 m89%
0%50%100%
About 500 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
9% of Hillion lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Baie de Saint-Brieuc nature reserve
1.8 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Baie de Saint-Brieuc - Est
9% of the commune1.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Baie de Saint-Brieuc - Est
1% of the commune1.8 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area9%
Nature reserve0.4%
Natura 2000 site9%
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.
9% of Hillion’s land is protected, more than in 71% 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
38 km of footpaths and 8 km of hiking routes cross Hillion
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
38 km
1.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.2 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
6.9%
about 1.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
HillionCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Footpaths1.6
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
HillionCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Woodland6.9%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 53% 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.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin des Douaniers, Erquy - Brehec14 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Hillion: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Quintenic, 17 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 Hillion →
Neighbors
Next to Hillion
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
YffiniacLangueuxTrégueuxSaint-BrieucQuessoyPlérinHillion
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Hillion
Is Hillion in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 9% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Hillion?
OpenStreetMap maps 38 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Hillion is woodland?
6.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Hillion near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 1.9 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Hillion?
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.