First pick
Bois de Rosquerno
Wood or forest
73 ha6 km of path
1 h 20 minto walk all 6 km of path
4.4 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Remi Jouan · CC BY-SA 3.01.4%woodland
Outdoors in Loctudy · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Loctudy is on the coast
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 12 km in Loctudy. Mapped woodland covers 1.4% of Loctudy. No protected area reaches Loctudy; the nearest, Rivières de Pont-l’Abbé et de l’Odet (Natura 2000), is 2.3 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.3%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Rivières de Pont-l’Abbé et de l’Odet, 2.3 km
Woodland
1.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
19 km
1.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
12 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
20%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 1.2 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 Loctudy?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 1.2 km from its center.On waymarked routes12 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyRivières de Pont-l’Abbé et de l’Odet (Natura 2000) is 2.3 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland1.4% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Loctudy apart: the sea, then its hiking routes. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Loctudy 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 areas0.3%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
53out of 100
Woodland1.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
8out of 100
Footpaths1.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
43out of 100
Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
80out of 100
Green space nearby20%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
0out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Loctudy has the 19th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,038 to 4,112 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Longeville-lès-Metz (7.3 km per km²) to Bâgé-Dommartin (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Longeville-lès-Metz Moselle | 7.3 | 9.3% | 0% | 327 km |
| 2 | Le Croisic Loire-Atlantique | 6.7 | 3.3% | 3.3% | On it |
| 3 | Seignosse Landes | 4.4 | 70% | 9.7% | On it |
| 4 | Le Revest-les-Eaux Var | 4 | 27% | 28% | 5.3 km |
| 5 | Bouxières-aux-Dames Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.5 | 30% | 0% | 359 km |
| 6 | Leffrinckoucke Nord | 3.4 | 0.6% | 25% | On it |
| 7 | Saint-Georges-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 3.4 | 25% | 40% | On it |
| 8 | Le Coudray Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 140 km |
| 9 | Offemont Territoire de Belfort | 2.9 | 39% | 0% | 433 km |
| 10 | Juziers Yvelines | 2.6 | 38% | 66% | 117 km |
| 11 | Aramon Gard | 2.4 | 2.4% | 15% | 51 km |
| 12 | Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne Alpes-Maritimes | 2.2 | 70% | 100% | 18 km |
| 13 | Verson Calvados | 2 | 0.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 14 | Abscon Nord | 1.6 | 6.4% | 0% | 100 km |
| 15 | Issou Yvelines | 1.6 | 21% | 0% | 116 km |
| 16 | Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre Eure-et-Loir | 1.6 | 26% | 0.8% | 99 km |
| 17 | Baccarat Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 39% | 17% | 412 km |
| 18 | Staffelfelden Haut-Rhin | 1.5 | 34% | 0% | 449 km |
| 19 | Loctudy Finistère | 1.4 | 1.4% | 0.3% | On it |
| 20 | Avermes Allier | 1.2 | 4.2% | 13% | 338 km |
| 21 | Le Cellier Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 29% | 12% | 57 km |
| 22 | Survilliers Val-d'Oise | 1.1 | 23% | 71% | 135 km |
| 23 | Pleslin-Trigavou Côtes-d'Armor | 0.9 | 15% | 100% | 5.1 km |
| 24 | Caissargues Gard | 0.9 | 10% | 1.7% | 34 km |
| 25 | Générac Gard | 0.8 | 4.5% | 19% | 27 km |
| 26 | Hochfelden Bas-Rhin | 0.7 | 6.8% | 0% | 428 km |
| 27 | Val-Couesnon Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 7.2% | 1.5% | 19 km |
| 28 | Plélan-le-Grand Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 12% | 0.2% | 55 km |
| 29 | Chevry-Cossigny Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 32% | 0% | 175 km |
| 30 | Eauze Gers | 0.6 | 24% | 9.8% | 117 km |
| 31 | Paulhan Hérault | 0.5 | 1% | 0% | 23 km |
| 32 | Allassac Corrèze | 0.4 | 21% | 2.2% | 164 km |
| 33 | Cuxac-d'Aude Aude | 0.4 | 4.6% | 14% | 17 km |
| 34 | Les Mées Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 49% | 17% | 91 km |
| 35 | Trouy Cher | 0.4 | 2.7% | 0.1% | 280 km |
| 36 | Campbon Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 6.8% | 1.6% | 21 km |
| 37 | Hourtin Gironde | 0.3 | 66% | 100% | On it |
| 38 | Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 9.9% | 0% | 161 km |
| 39 | Saint-Joachim Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 0.1% | 100% | 8.8 km |
| 40 | Benet Vendée | 0.2 | 0.7% | 100% | 41 km |
| 41 | Bâgé-Dommartin Ain | 0.1 | 13% | 0% | 315 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 Loctudy
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Rosquerno leads, at 73 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
2 in 10 residents of Loctudy 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).
20% within 800 m80% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
LoctudyFinistère medianFrance median
Within 800 m20%
0%50%100%
About 3,200 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
Rivières de Pont-l’Abbé et de l’Odet is the nearest protected area, 2.3 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
Rivières de Pont-l’Abbé et de l’Odet
2.3 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.3%
Natura 2000 site0.3%
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
19 km of footpaths and 12 km of hiking routes cross Loctudy
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
19 km
1.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
12 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
1.4%
about 0.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LoctudyFinistère medianFrance median
Footpaths1.4
Hiking routes0.9
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LoctudyFinistère medianFrance median
Woodland1.4%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 57% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 92% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin des Douaniers, Pointe du Raz - Concarneau23 km
Le Chemin de Halage3.6 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Loctudy: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pont-L’abbe, 6.6 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 | 10.2 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 18 | 14 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 124 | 101 | 74 | 72 | 62 | 48 | 51 | 59 | 59 | 104 | 129 | 130 |
June is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 130 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 21 nights a year. The climate in Loctudy →
Neighbors
Next to Loctudy
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Plobannalec-LesconilPont-l'AbbéCombritPlomeurGuilvinecBénodetLoctudy
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loctudy | 0.3% | 1.4% | 1.4 | On it |
| Plobannalec-Lesconil 3,718 · 3.4 km | 0% | 3.3% | 1.1 | On it |
| Pont-l'Abbé 8,484 · 5.6 km | 2% | 13% | 1.9 | On it |
| Combrit 4,265 · 7.1 km | 3.3% | 20% | 2.2 | On it |
| Plomeur 3,904 · 8 km | 7.9% | 4.7% | 0.9 | On it |
| Guilvinec 2,669 · 8.1 km | 2.7% | 0.8% | 6.2 | On it |
| Bénodet 3,849 · 9.1 km | 0% | 12% | 1.9 | On it |
Combrit 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 Loctudy
Is Loctudy in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Rivières de Pont-l’Abbé et de l’Odet, 2.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Loctudy?
OpenStreetMap maps 19 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 12 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Loctudy is woodland?
1.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Loctudy near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 1.2 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Loctudy?
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.