First pick
Bois de Poulmic
Wood or forest
158 ha5.1 km of path
1 h 10 minto walk all 5.1 km of path
8.2 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Romainbehar · CC0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Crozon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Crozon lies inside Armorique Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Crozon’s land. Crozon has 56 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 192 km across Crozon (2.4 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
15%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
192 km
2.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
56 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
6
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Poulmic
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 1.3 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 Crozon?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Armorique Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 1.3 km from its center.
What sets Crozon apart: the regional nature park around it, then the sea.
Against French towns
How Crozon 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
92out of 100
Woodland15%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
54out of 100
Footpaths2.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
64out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
72out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Crozon has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,388 to 7,612 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Prix (8.4 km per km²) to Loireauxence (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Prix Val-d'Oise | 8.4 | 64% | 0.5% | 132 km |
| 2 | Gérardmer Vosges | 6.3 | 70% | 100% | 445 km |
| 3 | Huningue Haut-Rhin | 4.9 | 0.9% | 0% | 423 km |
| 4 | Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil Essonne | 4.8 | 28% | 0% | 177 km |
| 5 | Sausset-les-Pins Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.2 | 5.8% | 51% | On it |
| 6 | Soisy-sur-Seine Essonne | 3.6 | 64% | 0% | 173 km |
| 7 | Remiremont Vosges | 3.5 | 70% | 18% | 432 km |
| 8 | Lesneven Finistère | 3.4 | 4% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 9 | Saint-Apollinaire Côte-d'Or | 3.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 403 km |
| 10 | Clisson Loire-Atlantique | 3.1 | 9% | 0% | 54 km |
| 11 | Saint-Péray Ardèche | 3 | 27% | 11% | 165 km |
| 12 | Fabrègues Hérault | 2.9 | 7.6% | 8.4% | 9.4 km |
| 13 | Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.7 | 20% | 0% | 256 km |
| 14 | Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente Charente | 2.5 | 20% | 8.7% | 74 km |
| 15 | Faverges-Seythenex Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 65% | 100% | 239 km |
| 16 | Crozon Finistère | 2.4 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 17 | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Savoie | 2.2 | 37% | 0% | 190 km |
| 18 | Châteaubourg Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 19 | Carhaix-Plouguer Finistère | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 40 km |
| 20 | Saujon Charente-Maritime | 1.8 | 4% | 14% | 4.1 km |
| 21 | Saint-Maixent-l'École Deux-Sèvres | 1.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 72 km |
| 22 | Villard-Bonnot Isère | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 203 km |
| 23 | Céret Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.7 | 61% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 24 | Toulouges Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.6 | 0.2% | 0% | 17 km |
| 25 | Wissembourg Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 54% | 67% | 429 km |
| 26 | Saint-Berthevin Mayenne | 1.5 | 17% | 0% | 74 km |
| 27 | Langres Haute-Marne | 1.2 | 9.7% | 0.1% | 371 km |
| 28 | Pordic Côtes-d'Armor | 1.2 | 8.1% | 0% | On it |
| 29 | Yssingeaux Haute-Loire | 1.2 | 39% | 15% | 176 km |
| 30 | Lagnieu Ain | 1.1 | 35% | 0% | 274 km |
| 31 | Melesse Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.1 | 3.7% | 0% | 38 km |
| 32 | Jaunay-Marigny Vienne | 0.9 | 9.6% | 27% | 123 km |
| 33 | Parentis-en-Born Landes | 0.8 | 69% | 13% | 16 km |
| 34 | Ruelle-sur-Touvre Charente | 0.8 | 6.5% | 8% | 81 km |
| 35 | Sucé-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 13% | 25% | 48 km |
| 36 | Rosporden Finistère | 0.8 | 4.7% | 0% | 11 km |
| 37 | Auxonne Côte-d'Or | 0.7 | 42% | 8.8% | 413 km |
| 38 | Rethel Ardennes | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 207 km |
| 39 | Déols Indre | 0.6 | 4.6% | 6.9% | 225 km |
| 40 | Chaumes-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 41 | Loireauxence Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 8.3% | 10% | 84 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 Crozon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Poulmic leads, at 158 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois du Kador
Wood or forest
88 ha5.4 km of path
1 h 10 minto walk all 5.4 km of path
3.8 km southfrom the center
Sentier CôtierSentier Côtier fermé
Directionsto a point inside
Forêt domaniale de Dinan
Wood or forest
15 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
5.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin insolit(h)e des roches de Bretagne
Park or garden
0.7 ha0.3 km of path
5.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square des Frères Stipon
Park or garden
0.2 ha0.2 km of path
4.3 km northfrom the center
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 Crozon
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
100% of the commune
Nature reserve
Sites d’Intérêt Géologique de la Presqu’Île de Crozon nature reserve
1.8 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Presqu’Ile de Crozon
29% of the commune1.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Rade de Brest, estuaire de l’Aulne
1.2% of the commune7 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Rade de Brest : Baie de Daoulas, Anse de Poulmic
6.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Nature reserve0.1%
Natura 2000 site30%
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 Crozon’s land is protected, more than in 92% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Finistère has 0.5%. 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
192 km of footpaths and 56 km of hiking routes cross Crozon
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
192 km
2.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
56 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
15%
about 12.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CrozonFinistère medianFrance median
Footpaths2.4
Hiking routes0.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CrozonFinistère medianFrance median
Woodland15%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 64% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 54% 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 Crozon is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin des Douaniers, Lanvéoc - Pentrez66 km
Chemin des Douaniers, Marros - Lanvéoc13 km
L'Anse Saint-Nicolas12 km
La balade de Saint-Fiacre6.4 km
Balade Sonore de l'Île Vierge4.7 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Crozon: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lanveoc, 5.3 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 | 16.1 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 118 | 98 | 72 | 75 | 61 | 56 | 57 | 62 | 70 | 108 | 127 | 127 |
June is the driest month (56 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 21 °C). 127 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 9 nights a year. The climate in Crozon →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Crozon
Named gardens in the commune.
Jardin insolit(h)e des roches de BretagneIn Crozon
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Crozon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Plougastel-DaoulasPlouzanéBrestLocmaria-PlouzanéLe Relecq-KerhuonLoperhetCrozon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crozon | 100% | 15% | 2.4 | On it |
| Plougastel-Daoulas 13,434 · 16 km | 6.5% | 28% | 2.6 | On it |
| Plouzané 13,567 · 16 km | 0% | 8% | 2.2 | On it |
| Brest 142,346 · 17 km | 0% | 6.7% | 5.9 | On it |
| Locmaria-Plouzané 5,130 · 18 km | 0% | 5.5% | 1.3 | On it |
| Le Relecq-Kerhuon 11,897 · 19 km | 0% | 7.6% | 4.8 | On it |
| Loperhet 3,959 · 20 km | 3.9% | 27% | 1.7 | On it |
Plougastel-Daoulas and Loperhet 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 Crozon
Is Crozon in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Crozon lies in Armorique Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Crozon?
OpenStreetMap maps 192 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 56 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Crozon is woodland?
15% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Crozon near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 1.3 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Crozon?
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.