First pick
Prairie Saint-Gouesnou
Park or garden · 300 m outside the commune
3.1 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Moreau.henri · CC BY-SA 4.02.3%woodland
Outdoors in Plabennec · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Plabennec is within 800 m of a park or wood
2.3% of Plabennec is mapped woodland. 34 km of footpaths cross Plabennec (0.7 km per km²). No protected area reaches Plabennec; the nearest, Abers - Côte des légendes (Natura 2000), is 7.8 km from the town center. 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: Abers - Côte des légendes, 7.8 km
Woodland
2.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
34 km
0.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Prairie Saint-Gouesnou
The sea
7.8 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 Plabennec?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Near the seaThe coast is 7.8 km from the town center.Protected land nearbyAbers - Côte des légendes (Natura 2000) is 7.8 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland2.3% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Plabennec apart: the sea nearby, then protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Plabennec 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
Woodland2.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
12out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
20out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
38out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Plabennec has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,557 to 8,813 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From L'Île-Saint-Denis (6.6 km per km²) to Coutras (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'Île-Saint-Denis Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.6 | 13% | 19% | 142 km |
| 2 | Beauzelle Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 9.2% | 25% | 154 km |
| 3 | Le Portel Pas-de-Calais | 5.5 | 3.3% | 6.7% | On it |
| 4 | Wingles Pas-de-Calais | 5.1 | 13% | 0% | 69 km |
| 5 | Crolles Isère | 4.6 | 26% | 19% | 207 km |
| 6 | Petit-Couronne Seine-Maritime | 4.2 | 40% | 0% | 49 km |
| 7 | Artigues-près-Bordeaux Gironde | 3.8 | 9.5% | 0% | 18 km |
| 8 | Essey-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.7 | 11% | 0% | 366 km |
| 9 | Thorigné-Fouillard Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.1 | 10% | 3.1% | 48 km |
| 10 | Saint-Renan Finistère | 2.9 | 5% | 0% | 8 km |
| 11 | Marcoussis Essonne | 2.7 | 34% | 0% | 163 km |
| 12 | Margny-lès-Compiègne Oise | 2.1 | 1.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 13 | Lempdes Puy-de-Dôme | 2.1 | 1.8% | 0% | 254 km |
| 14 | Le Teil Ardèche | 2 | 37% | 0% | 120 km |
| 15 | Puget-sur-Argens Var | 1.9 | 9.8% | 54% | 6.5 km |
| 16 | Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 15% | 14% | 243 km |
| 17 | Ergué-Gabéric Finistère | 1.8 | 21% | 0% | 6.3 km |
| 18 | Aulnoye-Aymeries Nord | 1.7 | 1.2% | 100% | 132 km |
| 19 | Soustons Landes | 1.7 | 65% | 9.6% | On it |
| 20 | Le Grau-du-Roi Gard | 1.6 | 3.9% | 89% | On it |
| 21 | La Chapelle-d'Armentières Nord | 1.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 52 km |
| 22 | Crest Drôme | 1.2 | 25% | 0% | 142 km |
| 23 | Isbergues Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 47 km |
| 24 | Sérignan Hérault | 1.1 | 0.2% | 34% | On it |
| 25 | Saint-Chamas Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 8.1% | 50% | 15 km |
| 26 | Saint-Jory Haute-Garonne | 0.9 | 6.1% | 6.4% | 159 km |
| 27 | La Ferté-Bernard Sarthe | 0.9 | 1.2% | 0% | 135 km |
| 28 | Ombrée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 94 km |
| 29 | Plabennec Finistère | 0.7 | 2.3% | 0% | 7.8 km |
| 30 | Roussillon Isère | 0.6 | 12% | 0% | 209 km |
| 31 | Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.6 | 1.2% | 81% | On it |
| 32 | Souleuvre en Bocage Calvados | 0.6 | 10% | 21% | 45 km |
| 33 | Janzé Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 70 km |
| 34 | Domérat Allier | 0.5 | 8.5% | 0% | 275 km |
| 35 | Chantonnay Vendée | 0.5 | 12% | 0% | 42 km |
| 36 | Le Poiré-sur-Vie Vendée | 0.4 | 4.9% | 0% | 32 km |
| 37 | Aigues-Mortes Gard | 0.4 | 2.8% | 100% | 6 km |
| 38 | Mauléon Deux-Sèvres | 0.4 | 6.8% | 0% | 76 km |
| 39 | Les Hauts-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 4.5% | 4.1% | 121 km |
| 40 | Sarlat-la-Canéda Dordogne | 0.3 | 42% | 10% | 143 km |
| 41 | Coutras Gironde | 0.1 | 11% | 19% | 37 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 Plabennec
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Prairie Saint-Gouesnou leads, at 3.1 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Abers - Côte des légendes is the nearest protected area, 7.8 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
Abers - Côte des légendes
7.8 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
34 km of footpaths and 11 km of hiking routes cross Plabennec
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
34 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
2.3%
about 1.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PlabennecFinistère medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PlabennecFinistère medianFrance median
Woodland2.3%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 80% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 88% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 96% of Plabennec’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit de Locmaria9.4 km
Boucle du Pays de Lesneven6.2 km
Circuit de Saint Jean de Balanant6.1 km
Tro ar bourg4.6 km
Circuit des vergers4.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Plabennec: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Brest-Guipavas, 5.7 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 Plabennec →
Neighbors
Next to Plabennec
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PlouvienBourg-BlancGouesnouGuipavasPloudanielLe FolgoëtPlabennec
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plabennec | 0% | 2.3% | 0.7 | 7.8 km |
| Plouvien 3,968 · 4.3 km | 0.6% | 9.4% | 1 | 3.9 km |
| Bourg-Blanc 3,573 · 5.9 km | 0% | 3.8% | 1 | 5.3 km |
| Gouesnou 6,501 · 6.4 km | 0% | 7.4% | 1.7 | 6.2 km |
| Guipavas 15,538 · 8.2 km | 0.4% | 11% | 2.2 | On it |
| Ploudaniel 3,732 · 8.8 km | 0% | 6.2% | 0.4 | 10 km |
| Le Folgoët 3,315 · 9.7 km | 0% | 3.7% | 1.9 | 8.1 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 Plabennec
Is Plabennec in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Abers - Côte des légendes, 7.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Plabennec?
OpenStreetMap maps 34 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Plabennec is woodland?
2.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Plabennec near the sea?
No: the coast is 7.8 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Plabennec?
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.