First pick
Bois Daniel
Wood or forest
31 ha2.7 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.7 km of path
3.3 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Vicomte de Villiers du Terrage · Public domain7.4%woodland
Outdoors in Elliant · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Elliant
25 km of footpaths cross Elliant (0.4 km per km²). No protected area reaches Elliant; the nearest, Dunes et côtes de Trévignon (Natura 2000), is 12 km from the town center. 7.4% of Elliant 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: Dunes et côtes de Trévignon, 12 km
Woodland
7.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
25 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
75%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
12 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.
Against French towns
How Elliant 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
Woodland7.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
32out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
9out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
44out of 100
Green space nearby75%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
2out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Elliant has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,403 to 3,452 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Mours-Saint-Eusèbe (3.7 km per km²) to Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mours-Saint-Eusèbe Drôme | 3.7 | 12% | 0% | 180 km |
| 2 | Fontanil-Cornillon Isère | 3.5 | 42% | 36% | 210 km |
| 3 | Nantua Ain | 3 | 71% | 0% | 302 km |
| 4 | Verquin Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 5.5% | 0% | 62 km |
| 5 | Choisy-au-Bac Oise | 2.5 | 62% | 56% | 119 km |
| 6 | Essert Territoire de Belfort | 2.4 | 41% | 0% | 431 km |
| 7 | Hégenheim Haut-Rhin | 2 | 11% | 0% | 420 km |
| 8 | Ligugé Vienne | 1.8 | 38% | 0% | 114 km |
| 9 | Annet-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 1.8 | 24% | 23% | 158 km |
| 10 | Sainte-Marie-de-Ré Charente-Maritime | 1.7 | 7.5% | 0.4% | On it |
| 11 | Aubin Aveyron | 1.7 | 49% | 2.3% | 166 km |
| 12 | La Boisse Ain | 1.7 | 16% | 0% | 265 km |
| 13 | Plouër-sur-Rance Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 25% | 100% | On it |
| 14 | Saint-Sulpice-de-Royan Charente-Maritime | 1.6 | 16% | 16% | On it |
| 15 | Saint-Céré Lot | 1.6 | 28% | 0% | 196 km |
| 16 | Saint-Martin-du-Var Alpes-Maritimes | 1.5 | 23% | 16% | 15 km |
| 17 | Mauriac Cantal | 1.4 | 22% | 17% | 227 km |
| 18 | Carpiquet Calvados | 1.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 16 km |
| 19 | Rupt-sur-Moselle Vosges | 1.3 | 67% | 100% | 441 km |
| 20 | Azay-le-Rideau Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 27% | 100% | 162 km |
| 21 | Lespignan Hérault | 1.1 | 0.3% | 69% | 8.7 km |
| 22 | Saint-Ambroix Gard | 1 | 30% | 100% | 78 km |
| 23 | Vic-la-Gardiole Hérault | 1 | 4.8% | 70% | On it |
| 24 | Troarn Calvados | 1 | 19% | 0% | 11 km |
| 25 | Ruffec Charente | 0.9 | 30% | 0% | 91 km |
| 26 | Thurins Rhône | 0.8 | 31% | 0% | 240 km |
| 27 | Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs Isère | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | 213 km |
| 28 | Andeville Oise | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 105 km |
| 29 | Vouvray Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 10% | 9.6% | 192 km |
| 30 | Brassac-les-Mines Puy-de-Dôme | 0.5 | 15% | 3.4% | 214 km |
| 31 | Moult-Chicheboville Calvados | 0.5 | 8.3% | 6% | 19 km |
| 32 | Saint-Romain-de-Jalionas Isère | 0.4 | 19% | 18% | 257 km |
| 33 | Elliant Finistère | 0.4 | 7.4% | 0% | 12 km |
| 34 | Bournezeau Vendée | 0.3 | 9.3% | 0% | 35 km |
| 35 | Landrecies Nord | 0.3 | 1.3% | 100% | 133 km |
| 36 | Feillens Ain | 0.3 | 12% | 18% | 315 km |
| 37 | Steenwerck Nord | 0.2 | 0.8% | 0% | 47 km |
| 38 | Vescovato Haute-Corse | 0.2 | 16% | 2.9% | 5.9 km |
| 39 | Bellevigne-les-Châteaux Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 28% | 100% | 128 km |
| 40 | Iwuy Nord | 0.2 | 4.4% | 0% | 110 km |
| 41 | Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans Gironde | 0.2 | 29% | 36% | 33 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 Elliant
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois Daniel leads, at 31 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
7 in 10 residents of Elliant 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).
75% within 800 m25% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
ElliantFinistère medianFrance median
Within 800 m75%
0%50%100%
About 900 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
Dunes et côtes de Trévignon is the nearest protected area, 12 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
Dunes et côtes de Trévignon
12 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
25 km of footpaths and 20 km of hiking routes cross Elliant
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
25 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
7.4%
about 5.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ElliantFinistère medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ElliantFinistère medianFrance median
Woodland7.4%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 91% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 68% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 385.5 km
Tro Kore11 km
Tro Ar Vourc’h1.4 km
GR 38 passes within 2 km of Elliant.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Elliant: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Quimper, 20 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 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 144 | 115 | 84 | 88 | 77 | 64 | 70 | 71 | 78 | 123 | 148 | 153 |
June is the driest month (64 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). 153 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 16 nights a year. The climate in Elliant →
Neighbors
Next to Elliant
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-YviRospordenErgué-GabéricSaint-ÉvarzecMelgvenLa Forêt-FouesnantElliant
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elliant | 0% | 7.4% | 0.4 | 12 km |
| Saint-Yvi 3,431 · 5.7 km | 0% | 7.7% | 0.8 | 6.3 km |
| Rosporden 7,550 · 7.7 km | 0% | 4.7% | 0.8 | 11 km |
| Ergué-Gabéric 8,606 · 10 km | 0% | 21% | 1.8 | 6.3 km |
| Saint-Évarzec 3,574 · 11 km | 0% | 10% | 0.7 | 4.1 km |
| Melgven 3,371 · 11 km | 0% | 9.5% | 1.1 | 6.2 km |
| La Forêt-Fouesnant 3,508 · 12 km | 0% | 7.6% | 2.3 | On it |
Ergué-Gabéric is 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 Elliant
Is Elliant in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Dunes et côtes de Trévignon, 12 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Elliant?
OpenStreetMap maps 25 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 20 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Elliant is woodland?
7.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Elliant near the sea?
No: the coast is 12 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Elliant?
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.