First pick
Bois de Coat Meur
Wood or forest
155 ha20.3 km of path
4 h 30 minto walk all 20.3 km of path
6.7 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.010%woodland
Outdoors in Guiclan · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Guiclan is within 800 m of a park or wood
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 30 km in Guiclan. No protected area reaches Guiclan; the nearest, Baie de Morlaix (Natura 2000), is 6.6 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 10% of Guiclan. 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: Baie de Morlaix, 6.6 km
Woodland
10%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
71 km
1.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
30 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Coat Meur
The sea
6.3 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 Guiclan?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Near the seaThe coast is 6.3 km from the town center.Protected land nearbyBaie de Morlaix (Natura 2000) is 6.6 km from the town center.
What sets Guiclan apart: the sea nearby, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Guiclan 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
Woodland10%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
42out of 100
Footpaths1.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
50out 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
Guiclan has the 7th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,561 to 2,609 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From École-Valentin (3.9 km per km²) to Hilsenheim (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | École-Valentin Doubs | 3.9 | 16% | 0% | 405 km |
| 2 | Josselin Morbihan | 3.7 | 15% | 0% | 36 km |
| 3 | Sainte-Feyre Creuse | 2.1 | 30% | 0% | 222 km |
| 4 | Tourville-la-Rivière Seine-Maritime | 2 | 15% | 15% | 55 km |
| 5 | Camiers Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 30% | 32% | On it |
| 6 | Sain-Bel Rhône | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 253 km |
| 7 | Guiclan Finistère | 1.7 | 10% | 0% | 6.3 km |
| 8 | Damparis Jura | 1.6 | 35% | 0% | 401 km |
| 9 | Hardricourt Yvelines | 1.6 | 15% | 0.4% | 118 km |
| 10 | Longueil-Annel Oise | 1.5 | 21% | 0% | 116 km |
| 11 | Mornas Vaucluse | 1.5 | 35% | 5% | 84 km |
| 12 | Le Palais Morbihan | 1.5 | 5% | 26% | On it |
| 13 | Saint-Jean-du-Gard Gard | 1.4 | 84% | 100% | 62 km |
| 14 | Watten Nord | 1.4 | 24% | 100% | 18 km |
| 15 | Beautor Aisne | 1.3 | 3.6% | 40% | 133 km |
| 16 | Bessèges Gard | 1.3 | 66% | 100% | 81 km |
| 17 | Villenauxe-la-Grande Aube | 1.3 | 13% | 0% | 223 km |
| 18 | Cattenom Moselle | 1.1 | 37% | 0% | 308 km |
| 19 | Pîtres Eure | 0.9 | 47% | 0.2% | 64 km |
| 20 | Ivry-la-Bataille Eure | 0.8 | 2.6% | 3.2% | 101 km |
| 21 | Grâces Côtes-d'Armor | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 17 km |
| 22 | Villages du Lac de Paladru Isère | 0.8 | 21% | 0% | 230 km |
| 23 | La Calmette Gard | 0.7 | 29% | 0% | 43 km |
| 24 | Frelinghien Nord | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 51 km |
| 25 | Avelin Nord | 0.6 | 6.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 26 | La Châtaigneraie Vendée | 0.6 | 4.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 27 | Trélon Nord | 0.6 | 78% | 100% | 156 km |
| 28 | Le Cailar Gard | 0.4 | 2% | 68% | 17 km |
| 29 | Xertigny Vosges | 0.4 | 42% | 0% | 417 km |
| 30 | Frans Ain | 0.4 | 4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 31 | Baldersheim Haut-Rhin | 0.4 | 63% | 60% | 446 km |
| 32 | Toucy Yonne | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 288 km |
| 33 | Saint-Yzan-de-Soudiac Gironde | 0.3 | 13% | 3% | 19 km |
| 34 | Charly-sur-Marne Aisne | 0.3 | 21% | 0% | 177 km |
| 35 | Clairac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 7.7% | 0% | 105 km |
| 36 | Semussac Charente-Maritime | 0.3 | 3.8% | 6.9% | 5.1 km |
| 37 | Vivy Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 100% | 140 km |
| 38 | Eymet Dordogne | 0.2 | 8.6% | 0.4% | 86 km |
| 39 | Athies-sous-Laon Aisne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 0% | 159 km |
| 40 | Cauchy-à-la-Tour Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.4% | 0% | 54 km |
| 41 | Hilsenheim Bas-Rhin | 0 | 28% | 18% | 465 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 Guiclan
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Coat Meur leads, at 155 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Maner al Lann
Wood or forest
59 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
2.2 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Plan d'eau de Kernabat
Park or garden
2 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Guiclan
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Baie de Morlaix is the nearest protected area, 6.6 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 Morlaix
6.6 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
71 km of footpaths and 30 km of hiking routes cross Guiclan
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
71 km
1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
30 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
10%
about 4.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GuiclanFinistère medianFrance median
Footpaths1.7
Hiking routes0.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GuiclanFinistère medianFrance median
Woodland10%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 50% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 58% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 97% of Guiclan’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
13 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
De St-Thégonnec à Henvic17 km
De la Forêt de Nivot à Saint-Thégonnec15 km
Circuit des Moulins11 km
Circuit des Lavoirs11 km
Balade de Kérincuff8.7 km
Circuit de Kastell Dour7.7 km
Circuit de San-Dodu7.1 km
Circuit de Penhoat7 km
Circuit de Sainte-Anasthasie6.7 km
Circuit de la Penzé6.6 km
Circuit de Kerdro3.2 km
De St-Thégonnec à Quilliogues3.1 km
+1 more
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Guiclan: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pleyber-Christ Sa, 9.9 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 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 128 | 107 | 82 | 79 | 70 | 62 | 58 | 63 | 74 | 113 | 124 | 141 |
July is the driest month (58 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). 141 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 19 nights a year. The climate in Guiclan →
Neighbors
Next to Guiclan
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Thégonnec Loc-EguinerPlouvornPleyber-ChristTauléLandivisiauPlouénanGuiclan
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guiclan | 0% | 10% | 1.7 | 6.3 km |
| Saint-Thégonnec Loc-Eguiner 3,148 · 4.1 km | 0% | 16% | 2.2 | 9.6 km |
| Plouvorn 2,916 · 6.1 km | 0% | 9% | 1.6 | 6.7 km |
| Pleyber-Christ 3,166 · 8 km | 0.1% | 20% | 1.8 | 9.3 km |
| Taulé 2,914 · 8.6 km | 1.5% | 14% | 1.6 | On it |
| Landivisiau 9,426 · 8.8 km | 0.8% | 12% | 2.8 | 14 km |
| Plouénan 2,610 · 9 km | 4.3% | 13% | 1.1 | On it |
Pleyber-Christ 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 Guiclan
Is Guiclan in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Baie de Morlaix, 6.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Guiclan?
OpenStreetMap maps 71 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 30 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Guiclan is woodland?
10% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Guiclan near the sea?
No: the coast is 6.3 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Guiclan?
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.