First pick
Bois de Kerjestin
Wood or forest
45 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
3.4 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Moreau.henri · CC BY-SA 3.014%woodland
Outdoors in Pluguffan · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Pluguffan is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Pluguffan; the nearest, Rivières de Pont-l’Abbé et de l’Odet (Natura 2000), is 7.9 km from the town center. 36 km of footpaths cross Pluguffan (1.1 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 14% of Pluguffan. 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: Rivières de Pont-l’Abbé et de l’Odet, 7.9 km
Woodland
14%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
36 km
1.1 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
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Kerjestin
The sea
4.3 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 Pluguffan?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Near the seaThe coast is 4.3 km from the town center.Protected land nearbyRivières de Pont-l’Abbé et de l’Odet (Natura 2000) is 7.9 km from the town center.
What sets Pluguffan apart: the sea nearby, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Pluguffan 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
Woodland14%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
51out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
35out 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
Pluguffan has the 18th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,189 to 4,258 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (5 km per km²) to Terres-de-Caux (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Touquet-Paris-Plage Pas-de-Calais | 5 | 23% | 9.8% | On it |
| 2 | Brives-Charensac Haute-Loire | 4.2 | 17% | 0% | 166 km |
| 3 | Mimet Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.9 | 49% | 44% | 16 km |
| 4 | Corenc Isère | 3.8 | 50% | 45% | 206 km |
| 5 | Bray-Dunes Nord | 3.6 | 0% | 41% | On it |
| 6 | Montarnaud Hérault | 3 | 47% | 17% | 22 km |
| 7 | Angoulins Charente-Maritime | 2.7 | 0.3% | 3.8% | On it |
| 8 | Escautpont Nord | 2.6 | 41% | 99% | 100 km |
| 9 | Pont-Péan Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 10 | Le Neubourg Eure | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 51 km |
| 11 | Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny Savoie | 2.2 | 50% | 100% | 225 km |
| 12 | Plomelin Finistère | 2.1 | 19% | 0% | On it |
| 13 | Rouffach Haut-Rhin | 1.8 | 37% | 10% | 464 km |
| 14 | Carnac Morbihan | 1.7 | 25% | 2.5% | On it |
| 15 | Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 36% | 2.7% | 41 km |
| 16 | Pont-du-Casse Lot-et-Garonne | 1.7 | 8.3% | 0% | 132 km |
| 17 | Pomponne Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 48% | 4% | 161 km |
| 18 | Valgelon-La Rochette Savoie | 1.6 | 31% | 0.6% | 216 km |
| 19 | Wolfisheim Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 7.5% | 0% | 446 km |
| 20 | Fleury Aude | 1.5 | 0.7% | 98% | On it |
| 21 | Saint-Just-Malmont Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 47% | 0.3% | 199 km |
| 22 | Maîche Doubs | 1.3 | 31% | 100% | 389 km |
| 23 | Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse Drôme | 1.1 | 26% | 0% | 186 km |
| 24 | Pluguffan Finistère | 1.1 | 14% | 0% | 4.3 km |
| 25 | Bartenheim Haut-Rhin | 1.1 | 30% | 29% | 428 km |
| 26 | Grisolles Tarn-et-Garonne | 1 | 13% | 19% | 168 km |
| 27 | Rians Var | 0.9 | 70% | 70% | 45 km |
| 28 | Athis-Val de Rouvre Orne | 0.8 | 11% | 2.9% | 56 km |
| 29 | Noues de Sienne Calvados | 0.7 | 20% | 0% | 32 km |
| 30 | Gourdon Lot | 0.7 | 42% | 0% | 158 km |
| 31 | Saint-Laurent-Nouan Loir-et-Cher | 0.6 | 42% | 26% | 213 km |
| 32 | Nailloux Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 5.1% | 0% | 123 km |
| 33 | Le Châtelet-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 18% | 0% | 200 km |
| 34 | Nanteuil-le-Haudouin Oise | 0.5 | 9.7% | 32% | 142 km |
| 35 | Sanvignes-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 12% | 0% | 345 km |
| 36 | Serémange-Erzange Moselle | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 307 km |
| 37 | Breteuil Oise | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 75 km |
| 38 | Jouarre Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 175 km |
| 39 | Betschdorf Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 41% | 49% | 436 km |
| 40 | Redessan Gard | 0.2 | 0% | 66% | 41 km |
| 41 | Terres-de-Caux Seine-Maritime | 0.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 19 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 Pluguffan
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Kerjestin leads, at 45 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Kermoysan
Wood or forest · 300 m outside the commune
7.7 ha2.7 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.7 km of path
3.7 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois des Korrigans
Wood or forest
10 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
1.6 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Rivières de Pont-l’Abbé et de l’Odet is the nearest protected area, 7.9 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
Rivières de Pont-l’Abbé et de l’Odet
7.9 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
36 km of footpaths cross Pluguffan
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
36 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
14%
about 4.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PluguffanFinistère medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PluguffanFinistère medianFrance median
Woodland14%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 65% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 51% 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 Pluguffan 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 Pluguffan: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Quimper, 1.3 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 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 144 | 115 | 84 | 88 | 77 | 64 | 70 | 71 | 78 | 123 | 148 | 153 |
June is the driest month (64 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). 153 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 16 nights a year. The climate in Pluguffan →
Neighbors
Next to Pluguffan
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PlomelinQuimperGouesnachPlogonnecCombritErgué-GabéricPluguffan
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Quimper and Gouesnach are 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 Pluguffan
Is Pluguffan in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Rivières de Pont-l’Abbé et de l’Odet, 7.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Pluguffan?
OpenStreetMap maps 36 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Pluguffan is woodland?
14% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Pluguffan near the sea?
No: the coast is 4.3 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Pluguffan?
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.