First pick
Stangala
Wood or forest
312 ha18.5 km of path
4 h 5 minto walk all 18.5 km of path
8 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Mouh2jijel · CC BY-SA 3.06.1%woodland
Outdoors in Briec · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Briec is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 36 km across Briec (0.5 km per km²). No protected area reaches Briec; the nearest, Armorique Regional Nature Park, is 8 km from the town center. 6.1% of Briec is mapped woodland. 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: Armorique Regional Nature Park, 8 km
Woodland
6.1%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
36 km
0.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
31 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Stangala
The sea
14 km
from the town center to the coast
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 Briec?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyArmorique Regional Nature Park is 8 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.5 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Briec apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Briec 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
22out of 100
Woodland6.1%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
27out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
15out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
58out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Briec has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,779 to 5,854 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Buc (5.6 km per km²) to Le Barp (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buc Yvelines | 5.6 | 45% | 0% | 148 km |
| 2 | Chambourcy Yvelines | 4.7 | 37% | 0% | 133 km |
| 3 | Algrange Moselle | 3.6 | 48% | 0% | 302 km |
| 4 | Roquefort-la-Bédoule Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 50% | 40% | 5.6 km |
| 5 | Boé Lot-et-Garonne | 3.2 | 2.6% | 4.3% | 135 km |
| 6 | Simiane-Collongue Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 60% | 44% | 12 km |
| 7 | Fenouillet Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 6.2% | 8.1% | 154 km |
| 8 | Sillingy Haute-Savoie | 3.1 | 21% | 0% | 267 km |
| 9 | Ludres Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.9 | 24% | 0% | 369 km |
| 10 | Vergèze Gard | 2.9 | 17% | 19% | 23 km |
| 11 | Seloncourt Doubs | 2.8 | 36% | 0% | 412 km |
| 12 | Villabé Essonne | 2.6 | 22% | 0% | 179 km |
| 13 | Annezin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 10% | 0% | 59 km |
| 14 | Garéoult Var | 2.2 | 30% | 51% | 26 km |
| 15 | Calvi Haute-Corse | 2.2 | 5.6% | 11% | On it |
| 16 | Fegersheim Bas-Rhin | 2 | 8.4% | 0% | 455 km |
| 17 | Ventabren Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.9 | 8% | 45% | 20 km |
| 18 | Dol-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 6.4 km |
| 19 | Arradon Morbihan | 1.8 | 16% | 100% | On it |
| 20 | Nieul-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 1.8 | 0.2% | 4.5% | On it |
| 21 | Bédarieux Hérault | 1.6 | 23% | 100% | 41 km |
| 22 | Port-la-Nouvelle Aude | 1.6 | 5.2% | 82% | On it |
| 23 | Cessy Ain | 1.5 | 5.4% | 0.2% | 304 km |
| 24 | Oye-Plage Pas-de-Calais | 1.5 | 3% | 5% | On it |
| 25 | Magny-en-Vexin Val-d'Oise | 1.3 | 13% | 100% | 100 km |
| 26 | Lannemezan Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.2 | 26% | 0% | 160 km |
| 27 | Kembs Haut-Rhin | 1.1 | 50% | 63% | 431 km |
| 28 | Wasselonne Bas-Rhin | 1 | 18% | 0% | 431 km |
| 29 | Saint-Just-en-Chaussée Oise | 0.8 | 7.8% | 0% | 92 km |
| 30 | Roye Somme | 0.8 | 3.5% | 0% | 96 km |
| 31 | Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 0.3% | 100% | 27 km |
| 32 | Viry Haute-Savoie | 0.7 | 30% | 0% | 284 km |
| 33 | Saint-Galmier Loire | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | 227 km |
| 34 | Bessan Hérault | 0.6 | 3.4% | 39% | 8.1 km |
| 35 | Mouroux Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 21% | 0% | 180 km |
| 36 | Briec Finistère | 0.5 | 6.1% | 0% | 14 km |
| 37 | Saint-Laurent-de-Mure Rhône | 0.4 | 3.2% | 0% | 248 km |
| 38 | Montmorillon Vienne | 0.4 | 11% | 28% | 152 km |
| 39 | Fismes Marne | 0.4 | 21% | 0% | 174 km |
| 40 | Sarrians Vaucluse | 0.4 | 5.2% | 2.5% | 71 km |
| 41 | Le Barp Gironde | 0.2 | 67% | 100% | 21 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 Briec
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Stangala leads, at 312 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Kerolven
Wood or forest · 0 m outside the commune
27 ha1.7 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.7 km of path
4.4 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Anita Conti
Park or garden
3.4 ha1.3 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.3 km of path
1.6 km north-eastfrom the center
Parcours de Santé du Jardin Anita Conti
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de la Boissière
Wood or forest
2.9 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
1.2 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Armorique Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 8 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Armorique Regional Nature Park
8 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
36 km of footpaths and 31 km of hiking routes cross Briec
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
36 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
31 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
6.1%
about 4.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BriecFinistère medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0.5
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BriecFinistère medianFrance median
Woodland6.1%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 85% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 73% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of Briec’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 3826 km
GR 38 passes within 2 km of Briec.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Briec: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St-Segal S A, 16 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 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 130 | 107 | 77 | 84 | 70 | 59 | 65 | 68 | 76 | 118 | 132 | 141 |
June is the driest month (59 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 141 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 31 nights a year. The climate in Briec →
Neighbors
Next to Briec
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Ergué-GabéricPlogonnecChâteaulinElliantQuimperPleybenBriec
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Briec | 0% | 6.1% | 0.5 | 14 km |
| Ergué-Gabéric 8,606 · 10 km | 0% | 21% | 1.8 | 6.3 km |
| Plogonnec 3,236 · 12 km | 0% | 11% | 0.7 | 9.6 km |
| Châteaulin 5,085 · 13 km | 100% | 21% | 2.5 | On it |
| Elliant 3,427 · 13 km | 0% | 7.4% | 0.4 | 12 km |
| Quimper 64,385 · 13 km | 0% | 25% | 2.9 | On it |
| Pleyben 3,692 · 15 km | 100% | 13% | 0.7 | 9.4 km |
Châteaulin and Pleyben have at least twice as much protected land. Ergué-Gabéric, Châteaulin and Quimper 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 Briec
Is Briec in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Armorique Regional Nature Park, 8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Briec?
OpenStreetMap maps 36 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 31 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Briec is woodland?
6.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Briec near the sea?
No: the coast is 14 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Briec?
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.