First pick
Le Pré Rolland
Park or garden
2.5 ha1.3 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Plancoët
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Rundvald · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Plancoët · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Plancoët lies inside Vallée de la Rance - Côte d’Emeraude Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Plancoët’s land. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 16 km in Plancoët. Footpaths add up to 16 km across Plancoët (1.4 km per km²). 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
13%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
16 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: Le Pré Rolland
The sea
3.9 km
from the town center to the coast
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Plancoët?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Vallée de la Rance - Côte d’Emeraude Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On waymarked routes16 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Near the seaThe coast is 3.9 km from the town center.
What sets Plancoët apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Plancoët 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
Woodland13%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
48out of 100
Footpaths1.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
43out of 100
Hiking routes1.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
91out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Plancoët has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,080 to 3,127 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Étiolles (3.7 km per km²) to Bérat (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Étiolles Essonne | 3.7 | 72% | 0% | 175 km |
| 2 | Buhl Haut-Rhin | 3.7 | 74% | 100% | 461 km |
| 3 | Villers-Bocage Calvados | 3.1 | 7.7% | 0% | 29 km |
| 4 | Asnières-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 51% | 100% | 125 km |
| 5 | Tarascon-sur-Ariège Ariège | 3 | 48% | 1.5% | 118 km |
| 6 | La Chapelle-en-Serval Oise | 2.9 | 45% | 100% | 132 km |
| 7 | Morainvilliers Yvelines | 2.4 | 32% | 0% | 127 km |
| 8 | Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 9 | Beaumont Haute-Savoie | 2.2 | 40% | 48% | 280 km |
| 10 | Béthisy-Saint-Pierre Oise | 2.1 | 37% | 21% | 127 km |
| 11 | Custines Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2 | 38% | 0% | 355 km |
| 12 | Fumay Ardennes | 2 | 92% | 100% | 185 km |
| 13 | La Sentinelle Nord | 1.9 | 3.3% | 0.5% | 104 km |
| 14 | Le Touvet Isère | 1.9 | 48% | 58% | 212 km |
| 15 | Arbois Jura | 1.4 | 51% | 12% | 373 km |
| 16 | Plancoët Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 3.9 km |
| 17 | Besse-sur-Issole Var | 1.3 | 36% | 0.7% | 26 km |
| 18 | Gréoux-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.2 | 62% | 20% | 63 km |
| 19 | Saint-Genix-les-Villages Savoie | 1.2 | 33% | 4.4% | 247 km |
| 20 | Champcevinel Dordogne | 1.1 | 51% | 0% | 106 km |
| 21 | Le Plan-de-la-Tour Var | 1.1 | 40% | 0% | 7.3 km |
| 22 | Guichainville Eure | 1.1 | 15% | 0% | 78 km |
| 23 | Appoigny Yonne | 1 | 46% | 2.7% | 289 km |
| 24 | Vémars Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 25 | Arleux Nord | 0.9 | 7.5% | 0% | 99 km |
| 26 | Boussois Nord | 0.9 | 5.1% | 100% | 131 km |
| 27 | Anor Nord | 0.8 | 37% | 100% | 162 km |
| 28 | Thézan-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.8 | 0.9% | 0% | 22 km |
| 29 | Colayrac-Saint-Cirq Lot-et-Garonne | 0.7 | 14% | 3.8% | 126 km |
| 30 | Soulac-sur-Mer Gironde | 0.7 | 23% | 100% | On it |
| 31 | Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 54 km |
| 32 | Le Molay-Littry Calvados | 0.5 | 10% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 33 | Montfrin Gard | 0.5 | 3.1% | 14% | 47 km |
| 34 | Le Grand-Lemps Isère | 0.4 | 24% | 10% | 220 km |
| 35 | Saint-Hippolyte Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 0% | 68% | 6.1 km |
| 36 | Blancs-Coteaux Marne | 0.2 | 35% | 2.1% | 220 km |
| 37 | Dissay Vienne | 0.2 | 34% | 24% | 127 km |
| 38 | Miramont-de-Guyenne Lot-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 11% | 0% | 88 km |
| 39 | Lailly-en-Val Loiret | 0.1 | 52% | 60% | 210 km |
| 40 | Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure Charente | 0.1 | 23% | 0% | 103 km |
| 41 | Bérat Haute-Garonne | 0 | 11% | 0% | 159 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 Plancoët
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Le Pré Rolland leads, at 2.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du Petit Billy
Park or garden
0.8 ha0.4 km of path
0.9 km north-westfrom the center
Promenade du Bily
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Plancoët
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Vallée de la Rance - Côte d’Emeraude Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Baie de Lancieux, Baie de l’Arguenon, Archipel de Saint Malo et Dinard
2.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site0.5%
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 Plancoët’s land is protected, more than in 94% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Côtes-d'Armor has 2%. 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
16 km of footpaths and 16 km of hiking routes cross Plancoët
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
16 km
1.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
16 km
waymarked: 1.4 km per km²
Woodland
13%
about 1.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PlancoëtCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Footpaths1.4
Hiking routes1.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PlancoëtCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Woodland13%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 57% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 52% 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 Plancoët is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Eau et Nature20 km
Circuit de Montafilant7.5 km
Chemin des Dolmens0.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Plancoët: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Dinard, 13 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 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 17 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 64 | 56 | 48 | 54 | 56 | 54 | 46 | 58 | 60 | 81 | 89 | 86 |
July is the driest month (46 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). 89 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 22 nights a year. The climate in Plancoët →
Neighbors
Next to Plancoët
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Val-d'ArguenonBeaussais-sur-MerSaint-Cast-le-GuildoPleslin-TrigavouQuévertTrélivanPlancoët
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plancoët | 100% | 13% | 1.4 | 3.9 km |
| Val-d'Arguenon 2,844 · 3.8 km | 0% | 9.5% | 0.6 | 6 km |
| Beaussais-sur-Mer 4,498 · 8.6 km | 100% | 12% | 0.9 | On it |
| Saint-Cast-le-Guildo 3,371 · 11 km | 100% | 12% | 1.7 | On it |
| Pleslin-Trigavou 4,065 · 12 km | 100% | 15% | 0.9 | 5.1 km |
| Quévert 3,955 · 13 km | 100% | 12% | 1.3 | 6.9 km |
| Trélivan 2,865 · 14 km | 100% | 18% | 1.1 | 9.5 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 Plancoët
Is Plancoët in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Plancoët lies in Vallée de la Rance - Côte d’Emeraude Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Plancoët?
OpenStreetMap maps 16 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 Plancoët is woodland?
13% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Plancoët near the sea?
No: the coast is 3.9 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Plancoët?
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 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.