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Outdoors in Ploufragan · protected areas, woods and footpaths

Almost every home in Ploufragan is within 800 m of a park or wood

67 km of footpaths cross Ploufragan (2.5 km per km²). No protected area reaches Ploufragan; the nearest, Baie de Saint-Brieuc - Est (Natura 2000), is 4 km from the town center. 13% of Ploufragan is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.

13%woodland 67km of footpaths 5.7 kmto the coast

Protected areas

0.2%

of the commune’s land

Nearest: Baie de Saint-Brieuc - Est, 4 km

Woodland

13%

of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap

Compared town: 13%

Footpaths

67 km

2.5 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

named, in or within 400 m of the commune

First: Forêt départementale du Gouët

The sea

5.7 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 Ploufragan?

Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.

Near the seaThe coast is 5.7 km from the town center.Protected land nearbyBaie de Saint-Brieuc - Est (Natura 2000) is 4 km from the town center.

What sets Ploufragan apart: the sea nearby, then protected land close by.

Against French towns

How Ploufragan 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 areas0.2%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site

52out of 100

Woodland13%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap

49out of 100

Footpaths2.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune

67out 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

Ploufragan has the 19th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size

The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (11,315 to 11,703 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.

Ploufragan 2.5

Épinay-sous-SénartVauvert

05.511 km per km²

From Épinay-sous-Sénart (10.3 km per km²) to Vauvert (0.4 km per km²).

Every town in the comparison

	Town	Paths (km/km²)	Woodland	Protected	Coast
1	Épinay-sous-Sénart Essonne	10.3	54%	0%	171 km
2	Villecresnes Val-de-Marne	6.5	27%	0%	170 km
3	Enghien-les-Bains Val-d'Oise	5.4	0%	0%	137 km
4	Sassenage Isère	4.6	48%	50%	205 km
5	Briançon Hautes-Alpes	4.4	62%	0%	142 km
6	Gravelines Nord	3.9	7.7%	0%	On it
7	Gaillard Haute-Savoie	3.9	14%	8%	286 km
8	Dugny Seine-Saint-Denis	3.5	6.8%	9.5%	144 km
9	Arpajon Essonne	3.3	2.4%	0%	167 km
10	Maizières-lès-Metz Moselle	3.2	8.6%	0%	319 km
11	Plan-de-Cuques Bouches-du-Rhône	3.2	0.6%	59%	8.8 km
12	Le Haillan Gironde	3.2	18%	3.4%	16 km
13	Yvetot Seine-Maritime	3	3.5%	100%	28 km
14	Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon Essonne	3	16%	0%	167 km
15	Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer Var	2.9	30%	25%	On it
16	Dourdan Essonne	2.8	58%	0%	157 km
17	Saint-Estève Pyrénées-Orientales	2.8	2.8%	0.5%	16 km
18	Panazol Haute-Vienne	2.7	21%	0%	167 km
19	Ploufragan Côtes-d'Armor	2.5	13%	0.2%	5.7 km
20	Corbas Rhône	2.5	0.6%	0%	243 km
21	Saverne Bas-Rhin	2.5	65%	0%	418 km
22	Nœux-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais	2.4	4.6%	0%	66 km
23	Vaux-le-Pénil Seine-et-Marne	2.4	27%	0%	194 km
24	Ancenis-Saint-Géréon Loire-Atlantique	2.4	10%	27%	71 km
25	Pacé Ille-et-Vilaine	2.2	3.6%	0%	41 km
26	Montlouis-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire	2.1	15%	7.6%	192 km
27	La Roche-sur-Foron Haute-Savoie	2.1	21%	0%	270 km
28	Bruay-sur-l'Escaut Nord	2.1	14%	98%	102 km
29	Méricourt Pas-de-Calais	2	4.3%	0%	79 km
30	Les Avirons Réunion	1.7	47%	78%	On it
31	Fourmies Nord	1.6	48%	100%	157 km
32	Provins Seine-et-Marne	1.6	6.6%	0%	215 km
33	Bolbec Seine-Maritime	1.5	7.1%	0%	17 km
34	Chauny Aisne	1.2	5.7%	10%	127 km
35	Biganos Gironde	1.1	71%	100%	On it
36	Thiers Puy-de-Dôme	1	43%	100%	259 km
37	La Hague Manche	1	5.5%	14%	On it
38	Saint-Junien Haute-Vienne	0.8	17%	0%	139 km
39	Pontchâteau Loire-Atlantique	0.6	9.4%	24%	16 km
40	Pia Pyrénées-Orientales	0.5	0.2%	0%	10 km
41	Vauvert Gard	0.4	3.1%	71%	20 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 Ploufragan

Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt départementale du Gouët leads, at 258 ha. Directions go to a point inside.

First pick

Forêt départementale du Gouët

Wood or forest

258 ha23.8 km of path

5 h 15 minto walk all 23.8 km of path

2.6 km north-westfrom the center

Chemin de la Côte du BoisChemin des PlatièresChemin de la Côte Duval+2 paths

Directionsto a point inside

Square Barillot

Park or garden · 210 m outside the commune

0.3 ha

2.3 km north-eastfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.

Protected areas

Baie de Saint-Brieuc - Est is the nearest protected area, 4 km away

The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.

Natura 2000 site

Baie de Saint-Brieuc - Est

4 km from the town center

Share of the commune’s land

Any protected area0.2%

Natura 2000 site0.2%

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.

Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.

Footpaths and woods

67 km of footpaths cross Ploufragan

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

67 km

2.5 km per km²

Hiking routes

0 km

waymarked: 0 km per km²

Woodland

13%

about 3.5 km² of mapped woods

Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap

PloufraganCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median

Footpaths2.5

Hiking routes0

01.53 km per km²

Share of the land · mapped woods and forest

PloufraganCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median

Woodland13%

0%50%100%

That is more than in 67% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 51% 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 Ploufragan is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.

When to get out

The best walking months in Ploufragan: May to September

Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St Brieuc, 6.4 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	9	11	14	16	19	21	22	20	16	12	10
Rain (mm)	74	65	53	60	56	51	42	45	52	82	88	91

July is the driest month (42 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). 91 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 17 nights a year. The climate in Ploufragan →

Neighbors

Next to Ploufragan

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.

Saint-BrieucTrégueuxPlérinLangueuxPlédranPordicPloufragan

Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+

Town	Protected	Woodland	Paths (km/km²)	Coast
Ploufragan	0.2%	13%	2.5	5.7 km
Saint-Brieuc 44,364 · 3.4 km	2.1%	14%	5.3	On it
Trégueux 8,450 · 4.1 km	0%	5.5%	2.4	4.1 km
Plérin 14,425 · 5.8 km	1.8%	14%	2.9	On it
Langueux 7,939 · 6.2 km	8.6%	8%	3.7	On it
Plédran 6,933 · 6.2 km	0%	8.8%	1.1	6.7 km
Pordic 7,454 · 8.8 km	0%	8.1%	1.2	On it

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 Ploufragan

Is Ploufragan in a national or regional nature park?

No. The nearest protected area is Baie de Saint-Brieuc - Est, 4 km from the town center.

Are there good walks in Ploufragan?

OpenStreetMap maps 67 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).

How much of Ploufragan is woodland?

13% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.

Is Ploufragan near the sea?

No: the coast is 5.7 km from the town center, as the crow flies.

When is the best time for walking in Ploufragan?

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.