First pick
Espace Galatée
Park or garden
7.6 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
1.1 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: chisloup · CC BY 3.011%woodland
Outdoors in Guichen · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Guichen is within 800 m of a park or wood
Guichen has 49 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Guichen; the nearest, Vallée du Canut (Natura 2000), is 6.8 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 11% of Guichen. 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: Vallée du Canut, 6.8 km
Woodland
11%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
78 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
49 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Espace Galatée
Throughout this page, the Ille-et-Vilaine 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 Guichen?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes49 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyVallée du Canut (Natura 2000) is 6.8 km from the town center.
What sets Guichen apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Guichen 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
Woodland11%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
42out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Hiking routes1.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
87out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Guichen has the 17th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,270 to 9,554 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bures-sur-Yvette (8.5 km per km²) to Tonneins (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bures-sur-Yvette Essonne | 8.5 | 26% | 0.2% | 155 km |
| 2 | Ville-la-Grand Haute-Savoie | 6 | 14% | 0% | 287 km |
| 3 | La Ravoire Savoie | 5.3 | 14% | 0% | 231 km |
| 4 | Poisy Haute-Savoie | 5 | 33% | 0% | 263 km |
| 5 | Jarville-la-Malgrange Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 369 km |
| 6 | Magny-les-Hameaux Yvelines | 4.1 | 29% | 100% | 149 km |
| 7 | Carqueiranne Var | 3.9 | 28% | 0.1% | On it |
| 8 | Vert-Saint-Denis Seine-et-Marne | 3.9 | 23% | 0% | 187 km |
| 9 | Redon Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.8 | 10% | 32% | 28 km |
| 10 | Liffré Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 61% | 20% | 45 km |
| 11 | Séné Morbihan | 3.3 | 10% | 90% | On it |
| 12 | Arques Pas-de-Calais | 3.3 | 37% | 76% | 31 km |
| 13 | Rombas Moselle | 3.3 | 53% | 0% | 314 km |
| 14 | Le Passage Lot-et-Garonne | 3.2 | 7.8% | 9% | 131 km |
| 15 | Hagondange Moselle | 3.1 | 11% | 0% | 317 km |
| 16 | Mont-Saint-Martin Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.9 | 18% | 0% | 274 km |
| 17 | Quincy-sous-Sénart Essonne | 2.8 | 57% | 0% | 174 km |
| 18 | Landivisiau Finistère | 2.8 | 12% | 0.8% | 14 km |
| 19 | Leers Nord | 2.6 | 1.6% | 0% | 64 km |
| 20 | Molsheim Bas-Rhin | 2.5 | 8.8% | 0% | 441 km |
| 21 | Sallaumines Pas-de-Calais | 2.4 | 8.1% | 0% | 77 km |
| 22 | Savenay Loire-Atlantique | 2.3 | 14% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 23 | Clermont-l'Hérault Hérault | 2 | 22% | 46% | 32 km |
| 24 | Les Sorinières Loire-Atlantique | 2 | 9.8% | 0% | 37 km |
| 25 | Guichen Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 60 km |
| 26 | Lescar Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.6 | 6.6% | 20% | 89 km |
| 27 | Chaponost Rhône | 1.5 | 12% | 0% | 245 km |
| 28 | Belley Ain | 1.4 | 19% | 0% | 261 km |
| 29 | Paray-le-Monial Saône-et-Loire | 1.3 | 20% | 0% | 321 km |
| 30 | Dombasle-sur-Meurthe Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1 | 17% | 0% | 380 km |
| 31 | Luçon Vendée | 0.9 | 1.1% | 100% | 16 km |
| 32 | Nogent-le-Rotrou Eure-et-Loir | 0.8 | 7.9% | 100% | 127 km |
| 33 | Elne Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.8 | 0.2% | 3% | On it |
| 34 | Livron-sur-Drôme Drôme | 0.8 | 11% | 4.3% | 147 km |
| 35 | Albert Somme | 0.8 | 1.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 36 | L'Isle-Jourdain Gers | 0.7 | 7% | 0% | 173 km |
| 37 | Vallet Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 7.8% | 0% | 56 km |
| 38 | Rivesaltes Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 13 km |
| 39 | Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 4.5% | 44% | 26 km |
| 40 | Petit-Caux Seine-Maritime | 0.3 | 4.6% | 1.1% | On it |
| 41 | Tonneins Lot-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 2.8% | 3.5% | 99 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 Guichen
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Espace Galatée leads, at 7.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardni public
Park or garden
4.8 ha1.4 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.4 km of path
1.2 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Cale de Pont-Réan
Park or garden
1.6 ha0.6 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
3.5 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vallée du Canut is the nearest protected area, 6.8 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
Vallée du Canut
6.8 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
78 km of footpaths and 49 km of hiking routes cross Guichen
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
78 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
49 km
waymarked: 1.1 km per km²
Woodland
11%
about 4.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GuichenIlle-et-Vilaine medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes1.1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GuichenIlle-et-Vilaine medianFrance median
Woodland11%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 54% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 58% 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 Guichen is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Rennes - Saint-Malo-de-Phily20 km
Laillé les Vallées6.6 km
Laillé la Chapelle5.4 km
Circuit des Pervenches4 km
Laillé la Roche qui Chôme2.6 km
Laillé le bourg2.3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Guichen: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Rennes-St Jacques, 12 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) | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 67 | 52 | 49 | 51 | 58 | 51 | 44 | 44 | 57 | 73 | 73 | 73 |
August is the driest month (44 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 73 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 30 nights a year. The climate in Guichen →
Neighbors
Next to Guichen
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
LailléGovenBourg-des-ComptesBruzGuignenPont-PéanGuichen
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Laillé and Goven 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 Guichen
Is Guichen in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée du Canut, 6.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Guichen?
OpenStreetMap maps 78 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 49 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Guichen is woodland?
11% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Guichen near the sea?
No: the coast is 60 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Guichen?
April 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.