Photo: Johann Dréo from Chartres, France · CC BY-SA 2.0Plouescat is on the coast
Plouescat has 14 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 0.7% of Plouescat. No protected area reaches Plouescat; the nearest, Anse de Goulven, dunes de Keremma (Natura 2000), is 1.3 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is Plouescat?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Plouescat apart: the sea, then its hiking routes. It is shorter on woodland.
How Plouescat 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Plouescat has the 15th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,535 to 3,573 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Deauville (5.5 km per km²) to Réalmont (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deauville Calvados | 5.5 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 2 | Saint-Brice-Courcelles Marne | 3.7 | 15% | 0% | 195 km |
| 3 | Tosse Landes | 3.3 | 56% | 6.7% | 8.7 km |
| 4 | Sainte-Tulle Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.8 | 24% | 100% | 60 km |
| 5 | Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold Moselle | 2.5 | 52% | 4.6% | 351 km |
| 6 | Allennes-les-Marais Nord | 2.2 | 7.5% | 0% | 68 km |
| 7 | Servon Seine-et-Marne | 2.2 | 12% | 0% | 172 km |
| 8 | Fontvieille Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.2 | 35% | 100% | 33 km |
| 9 | La Bernerie-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 2.1 | 2.2% | 0.8% | On it |
| 10 | Montréal-la-Cluse Ain | 2.1 | 67% | 0% | 306 km |
| 11 | Rubelles Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 19% | 0% | 190 km |
| 12 | Saint-Julien-lès-Metz Moselle | 1.9 | 36% | 0% | 328 km |
| 13 | Crémieu Isère | 1.9 | 36% | 24% | 254 km |
| 14 | Olemps Aveyron | 1.8 | 17% | 0% | 135 km |
| 15 | Plouescat Finistère | 1.5 | 0.7% | 0.7% | On it |
| 16 | Laragne-Montéglin Hautes-Alpes | 1.5 | 37% | 77% | 114 km |
| 17 | Fargues-Saint-Hilaire Gironde | 1.4 | 23% | 1.7% | 24 km |
| 18 | Châteauneuf-sur-Charente Charente | 1.1 | 12% | 21% | 58 km |
| 19 | Messimy Rhône | 1.1 | 13% | 0% | 242 km |
| 20 | La Roche-de-Glun Drôme | 1.1 | 0% | 0% | 173 km |
| 21 | Plan-d'Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 5.9% | 12% | 41 km |
| 22 | Pleumeleuc Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.9 | 1.9% | 0% | 35 km |
| 23 | Saint-Georges-d'Espéranche Isère | 0.9 | 18% | 0% | 234 km |
| 24 | Béligneux Ain | 0.9 | 14% | 6.3% | 268 km |
| 25 | Échiré Deux-Sèvres | 0.8 | 2.6% | 0% | 56 km |
| 26 | Carcès Var | 0.7 | 51% | 25% | 39 km |
| 27 | Varangéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | 377 km |
| 28 | Saint-Soupplets Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 9.4% | 0% | 151 km |
| 29 | Le Breuil Saône-et-Loire | 0.6 | 17% | 0% | 362 km |
| 30 | Bellac Haute-Vienne | 0.6 | 20% | 0.4% | 158 km |
| 31 | Corps-Nuds Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 65 km |
| 32 | Avesnes-les-Aubert Nord | 0.6 | 0.8% | 0% | 116 km |
| 33 | Loyettes Ain | 0.5 | 5.9% | 12% | 260 km |
| 34 | Saint-Maur Indre | 0.5 | 33% | 2.1% | 220 km |
| 35 | Clamecy Nièvre | 0.5 | 34% | 3% | 321 km |
| 36 | Puygouzon Tarn | 0.5 | 1.3% | 0% | 115 km |
| 37 | Montmirail Marne | 0.4 | 27% | 0% | 198 km |
| 38 | Nogent Haute-Marne | 0.4 | 38% | 36% | 359 km |
| 39 | Varennes-sur-Allier Allier | 0.3 | 6.2% | 39% | 311 km |
| 40 | Isigny-sur-Mer Calvados | 0.2 | 1.4% | 75% | 5 km |
| 41 | Réalmont Tarn | 0.1 | 5.9% | 0% | 105 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
5 in 10 residents of Plouescat 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).
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
About 1,800 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.
Anse de Goulven, dunes de Keremma is the nearest protected area, 1.3 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Anse de Goulven, dunes de Keremma
Baie de Goulven
Share of the commune’s land
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.
22 km of footpaths and 14 km of hiking routes cross Plouescat
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 55% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 95% 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
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Plouescat: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Landivisiau, 15 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 | 15.8 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 140 | 116 | 78 | 85 | 72 | 63 | 64 | 66 | 73 | 118 | 135 | 151 |
June is the driest month (63 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 21 °C). 151 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 14 nights a year. The climate in Plouescat →
Next to Plouescat
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plouescat | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.5 | On it |
| Cléder 3,584 · 4.8 km | 0% | 4.4% | 1.9 | On it |
| Lesneven 7,566 · 14 km | 0% | 4% | 3.4 | 6.8 km |
| Plouvorn 2,916 · 14 km | 0% | 9% | 1.6 | 6.7 km |
| Saint-Pol-de-Léon 6,941 · 14 km | 4% | 2% | 1.2 | On it |
| Plouénan 2,610 · 15 km | 4.3% | 13% | 1.1 | On it |
| Le Folgoët 3,315 · 16 km | 0% | 3.7% | 1.9 | 8.1 km |
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 Plouescat
Is Plouescat in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Anse de Goulven, dunes de Keremma, 1.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Plouescat?
OpenStreetMap maps 22 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 14 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Plouescat is woodland?
0.7% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Plouescat near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 1.4 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Plouescat?
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.