First pick
Forêt de Lorge
Wood or forest
3,162 ha6.9 km of path
1 h 30 minto walk all 6.9 km of path
3.9 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Brault Martine, Martine 22 · CC BY-SA 4.01.6%of the land protected
Outdoors in Plœuc-L'Hermitage · protected areas, woods and footpaths
41% of Plœuc-L'Hermitage is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 19 km across Plœuc-L'Hermitage (0.2 km per km²). 1.6% of Plœuc-L'Hermitage’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
1.6%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
41%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
19 km
0.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt de Lorge
The sea
18 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 Plœuc-L'Hermitage?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune41% mapped woodland, more than in 86% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Few mapped footpaths0.2 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Plœuc-L'Hermitage apart: its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Plœuc-L'Hermitage 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 areas1.6%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
58out of 100
Woodland41%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
86out of 100
Footpaths0.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
4out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Plœuc-L'Hermitage has the 2nd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,072 to 4,133 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Longeville-lès-Metz (7.3 km per km²) to Benet (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Longeville-lès-Metz Moselle | 7.3 | 9.3% | 0% | 327 km |
| 2 | Chanteloup-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 6.5 | 24% | 0% | 166 km |
| 3 | Le Revest-les-Eaux Var | 4 | 27% | 28% | 5.3 km |
| 4 | Bouxières-aux-Dames Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.5 | 30% | 0% | 359 km |
| 5 | Leffrinckoucke Nord | 3.4 | 0.6% | 25% | On it |
| 6 | Neufchâtel-Hardelot Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 27% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Aramon Gard | 2.4 | 2.4% | 15% | 51 km |
| 8 | Monéteau Yonne | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 293 km |
| 9 | Bouchain Nord | 1.8 | 18% | 0% | 105 km |
| 10 | Le Houlme Seine-Maritime | 1.7 | 37% | 0% | 44 km |
| 11 | Abscon Nord | 1.6 | 6.4% | 0% | 100 km |
| 12 | Baccarat Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 39% | 17% | 412 km |
| 13 | Brie Charente | 1.5 | 35% | 19% | 86 km |
| 14 | Staffelfelden Haut-Rhin | 1.5 | 34% | 0% | 449 km |
| 15 | Loctudy Finistère | 1.4 | 1.4% | 0.3% | On it |
| 16 | Val d'Oingt Rhône | 1.3 | 20% | 0% | 266 km |
| 17 | Ghyvelde Nord | 1.3 | 0.2% | 6.9% | 3.7 km |
| 18 | Avermes Allier | 1.2 | 4.2% | 13% | 338 km |
| 19 | Pont-de-l'Arche Eure | 1.2 | 72% | 1.4% | 59 km |
| 20 | Nissan-lez-Enserune Hérault | 1.1 | 4.6% | 38% | 12 km |
| 21 | Survilliers Val-d'Oise | 1.1 | 23% | 71% | 135 km |
| 22 | Chaingy Loiret | 1 | 21% | 2.3% | 202 km |
| 23 | La Destrousse Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 11% | 6.2% | 19 km |
| 24 | Domfront en Poiraie Orne | 0.9 | 13% | 100% | 52 km |
| 25 | Caissargues Gard | 0.9 | 10% | 1.7% | 34 km |
| 26 | Arsac Gironde | 0.9 | 59% | 100% | 6.4 km |
| 27 | Neuilly-en-Thelle Oise | 0.8 | 7.9% | 0% | 114 km |
| 28 | Val-Couesnon Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 7.2% | 1.5% | 19 km |
| 29 | Plélan-le-Grand Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 12% | 0.2% | 55 km |
| 30 | Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets Eure-et-Loir | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 97 km |
| 31 | Chevry-Cossigny Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 32% | 0% | 175 km |
| 32 | Eauze Gers | 0.6 | 24% | 9.8% | 117 km |
| 33 | Pusignan Rhône | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 256 km |
| 34 | Pézilla-la-Rivière Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 1.8% | 0% | 22 km |
| 35 | Allassac Corrèze | 0.4 | 21% | 2.2% | 164 km |
| 36 | Cuxac-d'Aude Aude | 0.4 | 4.6% | 14% | 17 km |
| 37 | Les Mées Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 49% | 17% | 91 km |
| 38 | Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 9.9% | 0% | 161 km |
| 39 | Saint-Joachim Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 0.1% | 100% | 8.8 km |
| 40 | Plœuc-L'Hermitage Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 41% | 1.6% | 18 km |
| 41 | Benet Vendée | 0.2 | 0.7% | 100% | 41 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 Plœuc-L'Hermitage
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Lorge leads, at 3,162 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
1.6% of Plœuc-L'Hermitage 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
Forêt de Lorge, landes de Lanfains, cime de Kerchouan
1.6% of the commune3.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area1.6%
Natura 2000 site1.6%
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.
1.6% of Plœuc-L'Hermitage’s land is protected, more than in 58% 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
19 km of footpaths cross Plœuc-L'Hermitage
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
19 km
0.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
41%
about 34.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Plœuc-L'HermitageCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Footpaths0.2
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Plœuc-L'HermitageCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Woodland41%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 96% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 86% 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 Plœuc-L'Hermitage is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Plœuc-L'Hermitage: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Ploeuc-Sur-Lie, 1 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) | 8 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 104 | 87 | 69 | 71 | 63 | 57 | 46 | 59 | 66 | 103 | 113 | 119 |
July is the driest month (46 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 119 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Plœuc-L'Hermitage →
Neighbors
Next to Plœuc-L'Hermitage
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PlaintelPlédranQuintinQuessoyTrégueuxYffiniacPlœuc-L'Hermitage
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 Plœuc-L'Hermitage
Is Plœuc-L'Hermitage in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 1.6% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Plœuc-L'Hermitage?
OpenStreetMap maps 19 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Plœuc-L'Hermitage is woodland?
41% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Plœuc-L'Hermitage near the sea?
No: the coast is 18 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Plœuc-L'Hermitage?
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.