First pick
Bois de Roscouré
Wood or forest · 360 m outside the commune
134 ha11.9 km of path
2 h 40 minto walk all 11.9 km of path
3.2 km westfrom the center
Sentier CôtierAllée des Chênes
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Citizen lambda · CC BY-SA 3.012%woodland
Outdoors in Bénodet · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Bénodet is on the coast
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 7 km in Bénodet. No protected area reaches Bénodet; the nearest, Marais de Mousterlin (Natura 2000), is 1.3 km from the town center. 20 km of footpaths cross Bénodet (1.9 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Marais de Mousterlin, 1.3 km
Woodland
12%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 km
1.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
94%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 0.6 km from its center
Throughout this page, the Finistère 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 Bénodet?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 0.6 km from its center.Protected land nearbyMarais de Mousterlin (Natura 2000) is 1.3 km from the town center.
What sets Bénodet apart: the sea, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Bénodet 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%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
48out of 100
Woodland12%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
45out of 100
Footpaths1.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
56out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
72out of 100
Green space nearby94%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
11out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bénodet has the 11th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,825 to 3,872 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Palais-sur-Mer (5.1 km per km²) to Pipriac (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Palais-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 5.1 | 58% | 55% | On it |
| 2 | Collonges-sous-Salève Haute-Savoie | 5 | 40% | 51% | 283 km |
| 3 | Montgermont Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.8 | 3.2% | 0% | 43 km |
| 4 | Réhon Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.8 | 42% | 0% | 277 km |
| 5 | La Bresse Vosges | 3.5 | 58% | 100% | 450 km |
| 6 | Fraisses Loire | 2.7 | 33% | 0% | 203 km |
| 7 | La Plagne Tarentaise Savoie | 2.7 | 30% | 2.5% | 208 km |
| 8 | Les Martres-de-Veyre Puy-de-Dôme | 2.6 | 13% | 15% | 245 km |
| 9 | Pringy Seine-et-Marne | 2.6 | 24% | 100% | 189 km |
| 10 | Pleumeur-Bodou Côtes-d'Armor | 2.2 | 26% | 17% | On it |
| 11 | Bénodet Finistère | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | On it |
| 12 | Vagney Vosges | 1.9 | 59% | 100% | 440 km |
| 13 | Meyrargues Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.8 | 57% | 46% | 35 km |
| 14 | Saint-Valery-en-Caux Seine-Maritime | 1.8 | 4.3% | 3.2% | On it |
| 15 | Le Vigan Gard | 1.7 | 68% | 100% | 57 km |
| 16 | Saint-Cergues Haute-Savoie | 1.6 | 42% | 19% | 288 km |
| 17 | Saint-Mard Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 12% | 0% | 146 km |
| 18 | Sargé-lès-le-Mans Sarthe | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 136 km |
| 19 | Le Thuit de l'Oison Eure | 1.5 | 11% | 0% | 46 km |
| 20 | Fléac Charente | 1.4 | 12% | 3.7% | 71 km |
| 21 | Genilac Loire | 1.3 | 14% | 0% | 223 km |
| 22 | La Croix-Valmer Var | 1.3 | 40% | 95% | On it |
| 23 | Ribécourt-Dreslincourt Oise | 1.2 | 37% | 1.5% | 116 km |
| 24 | Wimille Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 5.1% | 100% | 1.8 km |
| 25 | Saint-Léger-de-Linières Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 27% | 0% | 109 km |
| 26 | Violaines Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 4.8% | 0% | 63 km |
| 27 | Hasnon Nord | 0.8 | 47% | 100% | 94 km |
| 28 | Mondragon Vaucluse | 0.7 | 30% | 17% | 88 km |
| 29 | Lapalud Vaucluse | 0.6 | 5% | 6.7% | 96 km |
| 30 | Celles-sur-Belle Deux-Sèvres | 0.5 | 7.6% | 20% | 67 km |
| 31 | Vouziers Ardennes | 0.5 | 14% | 18% | 234 km |
| 32 | Villieu-Loyes-Mollon Ain | 0.4 | 24% | 17% | 276 km |
| 33 | Saint-Georges-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 7.3% | 7.3% | 101 km |
| 34 | Ferrières-en-Gâtinais Loiret | 0.4 | 19% | 0% | 233 km |
| 35 | Mazères Ariège | 0.3 | 2% | 0.5% | 116 km |
| 36 | Saint-André-de-l'Eure Eure | 0.3 | 11% | 0% | 89 km |
| 37 | Saint-Gildas-des-Bois Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 12% | 3.5% | 25 km |
| 38 | Gundershoffen Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 23% | 0.1% | 422 km |
| 39 | Terranjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 118 km |
| 40 | Bosroumois Eure | 0.2 | 1.5% | 0% | 44 km |
| 41 | Pipriac Ille-et-Vilaine | 0 | 3.5% | 0% | 48 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 Bénodet
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Roscouré leads, at 134 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de Kerobistin
Park or garden · 310 m outside the commune
2.2 ha0.1 km of path
2 km westfrom the center
Directionsto 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 Bénodet 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).
94% within 800 m6.5% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
BénodetFinistère medianFrance median
Within 800 m94%
0%50%100%
About 200 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
Marais de Mousterlin is the nearest protected area, 1.3 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
Marais de Mousterlin
1.3 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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
20 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Bénodet
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
20 km
1.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.2 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
12%
about 1.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BénodetFinistère medianFrance median
Footpaths1.9
Hiking routes0.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BénodetFinistère medianFrance median
Woodland12%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 56% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 55% 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, Pointe du Raz - Concarneau21 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bénodet: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pont-L’abbe, 9.6 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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 18 | 14 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 124 | 101 | 74 | 72 | 62 | 48 | 51 | 59 | 59 | 104 | 129 | 130 |
June is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 130 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 21 nights a year. The climate in Bénodet →
Neighbors
Next to Bénodet
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GouesnachPleuvenCombritFouesnantPlomelinLoctudyBénodet
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Gouesnach and Combrit are more wooded.
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 Bénodet
Is Bénodet in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais de Mousterlin, 1.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Bénodet?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Bénodet is woodland?
12% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bénodet near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 0.6 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Bénodet?
April 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.