First pick
Jardin du Prat
Park or garden
1.4 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Plouvien
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Moreau.henri · CC BY-SA 3.09.4%woodland
Outdoors in Plouvien · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Plouvien is within 800 m of a park or wood
Plouvien has 35 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Plouvien; the nearest, Abers - Côte des légendes (Natura 2000), is 3.9 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 9.4% of Plouvien. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.6%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Abers - Côte des légendes, 3.9 km
Woodland
9.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
35 km
1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
35 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: Jardin du Prat
The sea
3.9 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 Plouvien?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes35 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Near the seaThe coast is 3.9 km from the town center.Protected land nearbyAbers - Côte des légendes (Natura 2000) is 3.9 km from the town center.
What sets Plouvien apart: its hiking routes, then the sea nearby.
Against French towns
How Plouvien 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 areas0.6%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
54out of 100
Woodland9.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
38out of 100
Footpaths1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
33out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
84out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Plouvien has the 20th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,942 to 3,995 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jarrie (3.2 km per km²) to Aiguillon (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jarrie Isère | 3.2 | 33% | 0.8% | 196 km |
| 2 | Saint-Nabord Vosges | 2.1 | 62% | 3.6% | 429 km |
| 3 | Allevard Isère | 2 | 55% | 0% | 211 km |
| 4 | Pujaut Gard | 2 | 10% | 0% | 62 km |
| 5 | Condrieu Rhône | 2 | 20% | 100% | 219 km |
| 6 | Montry Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 20% | 0% | 166 km |
| 7 | Mozac Puy-de-Dôme | 2 | 1.7% | 0% | 270 km |
| 8 | Toufflers Nord | 1.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 65 km |
| 9 | Pléneuf-Val-André Côtes-d'Armor | 1.8 | 10% | 2.6% | On it |
| 10 | Oberhoffen-sur-Moder Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 25% | 11% | 442 km |
| 11 | Hondschoote Nord | 1.6 | 0% | 0% | 12 km |
| 12 | Argences Calvados | 1.5 | 16% | 0% | 18 km |
| 13 | Porte-de-Savoie Savoie | 1.4 | 18% | 86% | 224 km |
| 14 | Erquy Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 6.8% | 15% | On it |
| 15 | Quévert Côtes-d'Armor | 1.3 | 12% | 100% | 6.9 km |
| 16 | Allaire Morbihan | 1.2 | 17% | 6.3% | 22 km |
| 17 | Boos Seine-Maritime | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 60 km |
| 18 | Rousies Nord | 1.2 | 20% | 100% | 132 km |
| 19 | La Gacilly Morbihan | 1.1 | 27% | 4.9% | 34 km |
| 20 | Pierrevert Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.1 | 36% | 100% | 61 km |
| 21 | Fourchambault Nièvre | 1.1 | 16% | 11% | 332 km |
| 22 | Plouvien Finistère | 1 | 9.4% | 0.6% | 3.9 km |
| 23 | Fontaine-le-Comte Vienne | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 110 km |
| 24 | Semur-en-Auxois Côte-d'Or | 0.9 | 21% | 0% | 357 km |
| 25 | Saint-Martin-en-Haut Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 236 km |
| 26 | Cires-lès-Mello Oise | 0.8 | 36% | 0% | 112 km |
| 27 | Sailly-sur-la-Lys Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 1.3% | 0.9% | 51 km |
| 28 | Le Bignon Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 37 km |
| 29 | Maing Nord | 0.7 | 4.2% | 0% | 108 km |
| 30 | Villeveyrac Hérault | 0.6 | 7% | 85% | 12 km |
| 31 | Gourin Morbihan | 0.6 | 12% | 1.7% | 34 km |
| 32 | Le Lude Sarthe | 0.5 | 23% | 7.6% | 157 km |
| 33 | Saint-Fulgent Vendée | 0.5 | 5.8% | 0% | 57 km |
| 34 | Châtelaudren-Plouagat Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 35 | Verfeil Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 7.7% | 0% | 133 km |
| 36 | Poligny Jura | 0.4 | 77% | 0.1% | 368 km |
| 37 | Salses-le-Château Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 4.1% | 34% | 10 km |
| 38 | Grand Bourgtheroulde Eure | 0.3 | 4.2% | 0% | 40 km |
| 39 | Replonges Ain | 0.3 | 9.3% | 19% | 311 km |
| 40 | Saint-Chély-d'Apcher Lozère | 0.2 | 21% | 0% | 150 km |
| 41 | Aiguillon Lot-et-Garonne | 0.1 | 1.4% | 2.5% | 108 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 Plouvien
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin du Prat leads, at 1.4 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, 3.9 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
0.6% of the commune3.9 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.6%
Natura 2000 site0.6%
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
35 km of footpaths and 35 km of hiking routes cross Plouvien
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
35 km
1 km per km²
Hiking routes
35 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
9.4%
about 3.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PlouvienFinistère medianFrance median
Footpaths1
Hiking routes1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PlouvienFinistère medianFrance median
Woodland9.4%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 67% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 62% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of Plouvien’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit de Saint Jean de Balanant10 km
Boucle du Pays de Lesneven9 km
Chemin des Douaniers, Morlaix - Portsall5.3 km
Tro ar bourg4.6 km
Circuit de Locmaria3.2 km
Circuit des vergers1.6 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Plouvien: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Ploudaniel-Inrae, 10 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 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 132 | 111 | 77 | 84 | 71 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 69 | 122 | 143 | 147 |
June is the driest month (60 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). 147 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 21 nights a year. The climate in Plouvien →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Plouvien
Named gardens in the commune.
Danse avec les chouxIn Plouvien
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Plouvien
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PlabennecBourg-BlancLannilisGouesnouLe FolgoëtPlouguerneauPlouvien
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plouvien | 0.6% | 9.4% | 1 | 3.9 km |
| Plabennec 8,686 · 4.3 km | 0% | 2.3% | 0.7 | 7.8 km |
| Bourg-Blanc 3,573 · 5.2 km | 0% | 3.8% | 1 | 5.3 km |
| Lannilis 5,709 · 6.8 km | 14% | 5.5% | 1.2 | On it |
| Gouesnou 6,501 · 9.3 km | 0% | 7.4% | 1.7 | 6.2 km |
| Le Folgoët 3,315 · 9.4 km | 0% | 3.7% | 1.9 | 8.1 km |
| Plouguerneau 6,755 · 10 km | 10% | 2.5% | 1.4 | On it |
Lannilis and Plouguerneau have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Plouvien
Is Plouvien in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Abers - Côte des légendes, 3.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Plouvien?
OpenStreetMap maps 35 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 35 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Plouvien is woodland?
9.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Plouvien near the sea?
No: the coast is 3.9 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Plouvien?
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.