First pick
Rives de Penfeld
Park or garden
65 ha19.4 km of path
4 h 20 minto walk all 19.4 km of path
4 km south-eastfrom the center
Passerelle des Pupilles
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Llorenzi · CC BY-SA 3.011%woodland
Outdoors in Guilers · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Guilers is within 800 m of a park or wood
54 km of footpaths cross Guilers (2.9 km per km²). No protected area reaches Guilers; the nearest, Presqu’Ile de Crozon (Natura 2000), is 9.6 km from the town center. 11% of Guilers 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: Presqu’Ile de Crozon, 9.6 km
Woodland
11%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
54 km
2.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 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: Rives de Penfeld
The sea
5.1 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 Guilers?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Near the seaThe coast is 5.1 km from the town center.Protected land nearbyPresqu’Ile de Crozon (Natura 2000) is 9.6 km from the town center.
What sets Guilers apart: the sea nearby, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Guilers 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
Woodland11%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
42out of 100
Footpaths2.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
72out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Guilers has the 9th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,130 to 8,414 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bihorel (5.5 km per km²) to Donges (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bihorel Seine-Maritime | 5.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 51 km |
| 2 | La Ville-du-Bois Essonne | 4.4 | 28% | 0% | 164 km |
| 3 | Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie Vendée | 4.3 | 3.1% | 5.4% | On it |
| 4 | Harfleur Seine-Maritime | 4.1 | 14% | 0% | 6.6 km |
| 5 | Paray-Vieille-Poste Essonne | 3.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 164 km |
| 6 | Bouaye Loire-Atlantique | 3.4 | 20% | 9% | 26 km |
| 7 | Mazingarbe Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 7.4% | 0% | 68 km |
| 8 | Ballancourt-sur-Essonne Essonne | 2.9 | 28% | 0.1% | 179 km |
| 9 | Guilers Finistère | 2.9 | 11% | 0% | 5.1 km |
| 10 | Vern-sur-Seiche Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.9 | 13% | 0% | 57 km |
| 11 | Téteghem-Coudekerque-Village Nord | 2.8 | 9.1% | 0% | 4.1 km |
| 12 | Brunstatt-Didenheim Haut-Rhin | 2.7 | 25% | 0% | 438 km |
| 13 | Souffelweyersheim Bas-Rhin | 2.7 | 1.7% | 0% | 447 km |
| 14 | Le Mesnil-Esnard Seine-Maritime | 2.6 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 15 | Carbon-Blanc Gironde | 2.5 | 0.5% | 0% | 14 km |
| 16 | Charnay-lès-Mâcon Saône-et-Loire | 2.4 | 5.7% | 0% | 311 km |
| 17 | Coutances Manche | 2.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 5.7 km |
| 18 | Orchies Nord | 1.9 | 1.7% | 0.7% | 84 km |
| 19 | Bandol Var | 1.8 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 20 | Noyal-Châtillon-sur-Seiche Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.8 | 4.5% | 0% | 56 km |
| 21 | Val de Briey Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.7 | 55% | 0% | 305 km |
| 22 | Anse Rhône | 1.7 | 16% | 0% | 269 km |
| 23 | Saint-Claude Jura | 1.7 | 78% | 100% | 318 km |
| 24 | La Colle-sur-Loup Alpes-Maritimes | 1.7 | 39% | 28% | 5.1 km |
| 25 | Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1.5 | 5.4% | 1.3% | 53 km |
| 26 | Trignac Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 0.1% | 65% | 1.7 km |
| 27 | Pégomas Alpes-Maritimes | 1 | 49% | 0% | 6.4 km |
| 28 | Linselles Nord | 1 | 0.7% | 0% | 53 km |
| 29 | Chinon Indre-et-Loire | 1 | 15% | 100% | 142 km |
| 30 | Meximieux Ain | 1 | 12% | 2.7% | 274 km |
| 31 | Thuir Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 23 km |
| 32 | Tournan-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 178 km |
| 33 | Feurs Loire | 0.8 | 6.8% | 37% | 243 km |
| 34 | Marguerittes Gard | 0.7 | 11% | 33% | 44 km |
| 35 | Malemort Corrèze | 0.7 | 27% | 0% | 171 km |
| 36 | Marseillan Hérault | 0.7 | 0.9% | 52% | On it |
| 37 | Tonnay-Charente Charente-Maritime | 0.6 | 3.3% | 17% | 6.9 km |
| 38 | Questembert Morbihan | 0.6 | 19% | 0% | 16 km |
| 39 | Salles Gironde | 0.5 | 86% | 100% | 17 km |
| 40 | Évron Mayenne | 0.3 | 7.3% | 19% | 88 km |
| 41 | Donges Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 2.8% | 58% | 8.5 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 Guilers
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Rives de Penfeld leads, at 65 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Keroual
Wood or forest
54 ha14.2 km of path
3 h 10 minto walk all 14.2 km of path
1.7 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de Kermengleuz
Park or garden
2.2 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
Centralin the middle of Guilers
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin de Kerguerec
Park or garden · 300 m outside the commune
1.3 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
3.9 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin de Fougères
Park or garden · 280 m outside the commune
0.9 ha
3.7 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
Presqu’Ile de Crozon is the nearest protected area, 9.6 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
Presqu’Ile de Crozon
9.6 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
54 km of footpaths cross Guilers
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
54 km
2.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
11%
about 2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GuilersFinistère medianFrance median
Footpaths2.9
Hiking routes0
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GuilersFinistère medianFrance median
Woodland11%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 72% 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. Every home in Guilers is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Guilers: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Brest-Guipavas, 13 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) | 10 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 143 | 119 | 82 | 92 | 75 | 65 | 71 | 75 | 79 | 129 | 147 | 155 |
June is the driest month (65 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 21 °C). 155 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 14 nights a year. The climate in Guilers →
Neighbors
Next to Guilers
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BoharsMilizac-GuipronvelSaint-RenanBrestPlouzanéGouesnouGuilers
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guilers | 0% | 11% | 2.9 | 5.1 km |
| Bohars 3,727 · 2.9 km | 0% | 11% | 2.6 | 3.3 km |
| Milizac-Guipronvel 4,816 · 4.6 km | 0% | 6.1% | 0.9 | 9.1 km |
| Saint-Renan 8,577 · 4.8 km | 0% | 5% | 2.9 | 8 km |
| Brest 142,346 · 5.8 km | 0% | 6.7% | 5.9 | On it |
| Plouzané 13,567 · 6.3 km | 0% | 8% | 2.2 | On it |
| Gouesnou 6,501 · 7.3 km | 0% | 7.4% | 1.7 | 6.2 km |
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 Guilers
Is Guilers in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Presqu’Ile de Crozon, 9.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Guilers?
OpenStreetMap maps 54 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Guilers is woodland?
11% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Guilers near the sea?
No: the coast is 5.1 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Guilers?
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 4, 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.