First pick
Jardin Kerdilès
Park or garden
3.1 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
1.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Rolf Krahl ( Rotkraut ) · CC BY 4.00%woodland
Outdoors in Roscoff · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Roscoff is on the coast
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 21 km in Roscoff. Footpaths add up to 20 km across Roscoff (3 km per km²). No protected area reaches Roscoff; the nearest, Baie de Morlaix (Natura 2000), is 0.5 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.4%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Baie de Morlaix, 0.5 km
Woodland
0%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 km
3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
21 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
91%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 0.5 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 Roscoff?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 0.5 km from its center.On waymarked routes21 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyBaie de Morlaix (Natura 2000) is 0.5 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Roscoff apart: the sea, then its hiking routes. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Roscoff 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 areas0.4%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
53out of 100
Woodland0%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
0out of 100
Footpaths3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
74out of 100
Hiking routes3.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
99out of 100
Green space nearby91%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
9out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Roscoff has the 9th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,302 to 3,360 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Collégien (5.9 km per km²) to La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Collégien Seine-et-Marne | 5.9 | 29% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Frépillon Val-d'Oise | 4.3 | 19% | 0.2% | 126 km |
| 3 | Champ-sur-Drac Isère | 3.9 | 51% | 24% | 193 km |
| 4 | Bernin Isère | 3.7 | 28% | 14% | 207 km |
| 5 | Briis-sous-Forges Essonne | 3.5 | 22% | 0.1% | 157 km |
| 6 | Lavérune Hérault | 3.1 | 6.9% | 0% | 11 km |
| 7 | Renage Isère | 3.1 | 31% | 0% | 215 km |
| 8 | Saint-Maximin Oise | 3 | 54% | 88% | 120 km |
| 9 | Roscoff Finistère | 3 | 0% | 0.4% | On it |
| 10 | Seilh Haute-Garonne | 3 | 15% | 12% | 156 km |
| 11 | Houplin-Ancoisne Nord | 3 | 4.4% | 0% | 66 km |
| 12 | Buchelay Yvelines | 2.8 | 7.5% | 0% | 108 km |
| 13 | Cocheren Moselle | 2.6 | 36% | 0% | 360 km |
| 14 | Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon Loire-Atlantique | 2.2 | 18% | 31% | 29 km |
| 15 | Ceyzériat Ain | 2 | 41% | 0.6% | 305 km |
| 16 | Doubs Doubs | 2 | 37% | 0% | 361 km |
| 17 | Le Folgoët Finistère | 1.9 | 3.7% | 0% | 8.1 km |
| 18 | Vourles Rhône | 1.8 | 6.6% | 0% | 240 km |
| 19 | Merlimont Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 28% | 63% | On it |
| 20 | La Roche-Blanche Puy-de-Dôme | 1.5 | 12% | 7.8% | 249 km |
| 21 | Aigues-Vives Gard | 1.3 | 4.2% | 13% | 21 km |
| 22 | Mareuil-lès-Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 18% | 0.6% | 163 km |
| 23 | Boissy-le-Châtel Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 20% | 0% | 184 km |
| 24 | Bonifacio Corse-du-Sud | 1.1 | 11% | 18% | On it |
| 25 | Précy-sur-Oise Oise | 1 | 14% | 100% | 119 km |
| 26 | Villelongue-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.8 | 0.1% | 0% | 4.5 km |
| 27 | Montanay Rhône | 0.8 | 7.1% | 0% | 265 km |
| 28 | Wizernes Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 6.8% | 100% | 32 km |
| 29 | Louvigné-du-Désert Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 4.2% | 0% | 24 km |
| 30 | Morhange Moselle | 0.5 | 7% | 0% | 367 km |
| 31 | Veuzain-sur-Loire Loir-et-Cher | 0.5 | 24% | 6.2% | 220 km |
| 32 | Saint-Andiol Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 43 km |
| 33 | Chaumont-en-Vexin Oise | 0.5 | 18% | 0% | 93 km |
| 34 | Évry-Grégy-sur-Yerre Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 180 km |
| 35 | Palau-del-Vidre Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.2 | 1% | 2.8% | 7.1 km |
| 36 | Val-au-Perche Orne | 0.2 | 21% | 100% | 128 km |
| 37 | Airvault Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 13% | 18% | 95 km |
| 38 | Cérans-Foulletourte Sarthe | 0.2 | 34% | 0% | 139 km |
| 39 | Castillon-la-Bataille Gironde | 0.1 | 12% | 1.5% | 47 km |
| 40 | Ambès Gironde | 0.1 | 5.4% | 58% | 4.6 km |
| 41 | La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.1 | 9% | 0% | 180 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 Roscoff
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin Kerdilès leads, at 3.1 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin Exotique
Park or garden
1.5 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
1 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Espace vert
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.3 km of path
0.8 km north-eastfrom the center
Sentier Côtier
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Roscoff 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).
91% within 800 m8.7% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
RoscoffFinistère medianFrance median
Within 800 m91%
0%50%100%
About 300 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
Baie de Morlaix is the nearest protected area, 0.5 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
Baie de Morlaix
0.5 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Baie de Morlaix
0.5 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.4%
Natura 2000 site0.4%
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
20 km of footpaths and 21 km of hiking routes cross Roscoff
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
20 km
3 km per km²
Hiking routes
21 km
waymarked: 3.2 km per km²
Woodland
0%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RoscoffFinistère medianFrance median
Footpaths3
Hiking routes3.2
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RoscoffFinistère medianFrance median
Woodland0%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 74% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 99% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin des Douaniers, Morlaix - Portsall14 km
Circuit entre Terre et Mer10 km
Randonnée des Fontaines8.6 km
Circuit de Perharidy3.9 km
Voie de Moguériec1.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Roscoff: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Landivisiau, 24 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 Roscoff →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Roscoff
Named gardens in the commune.
Jardin exotique et botanique de RoscoffIn Roscoff
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Roscoff
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Pol-de-LéonCarantecPlouénanCléderPlougasnouTauléRoscoff
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roscoff | 0.4% | 0% | 3 | On it |
| Saint-Pol-de-Léon 6,941 · 3.9 km | 4% | 2% | 1.2 | On it |
| Carantec 3,272 · 7.9 km | 14% | 3.6% | 2.2 | On it |
| Plouénan 2,610 · 10 km | 4.3% | 13% | 1.1 | On it |
| Cléder 3,584 · 11 km | 0% | 4.4% | 1.9 | On it |
| Plougasnou 3,192 · 13 km | 5.2% | 7.3% | 1.8 | On it |
| Taulé 2,914 · 14 km | 1.5% | 14% | 1.6 | On it |
Carantec has 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 Roscoff
Is Roscoff in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Baie de Morlaix, 0.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Roscoff?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 21 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Roscoff is woodland?
0% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Roscoff near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 0.5 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Roscoff?
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.