First pick
Parc Christian Dior
Park or garden
1.1 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
1.2 km north-westfrom the center
Allée nouvelle 1985
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Rijksmuseum · CC07.2%of the land protected
Outdoors in Granville · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Granville is on the coast
Granville has 14 km of waymarked hiking routes. 36 km of footpaths cross Granville (3.6 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 1.3% of Granville. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
7.2%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
1.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
36 km
3.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 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: Parc Christian Dior
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 0.8 km from its center
Throughout this page, the Manche 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 Granville?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 0.8 km from its center.On waymarked routes14 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.A place of footpaths3.6 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Little mapped woodland1.3% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Granville apart: the sea, then its hiking routes. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Granville 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 areas7.2%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
68out of 100
Woodland1.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
8out of 100
Footpaths3.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
81out of 100
Hiking routes1.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
91out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Granville has the 10th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (12,241 to 12,810 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Villetaneuse (11 km per km²) to Mèze (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villetaneuse Seine-Saint-Denis | 11 | 5.1% | 0% | 140 km |
| 2 | La Queue-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.3 | 47% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Bayeux Calvados | 6.1 | 2.8% | 0% | 7.4 km |
| 4 | Marquette-lez-Lille Nord | 5.6 | 4.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 5 | L'Union Haute-Garonne | 5.4 | 4.4% | 0% | 146 km |
| 6 | L'Isle-Adam Val-d'Oise | 5.2 | 60% | 0.2% | 121 km |
| 7 | Châlette-sur-Loing Loiret | 5.1 | 43% | 0% | 234 km |
| 8 | Harnes Pas-de-Calais | 4.2 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 9 | Saint-Avé Morbihan | 3.7 | 24% | 97% | 4.5 km |
| 10 | Granville Manche | 3.6 | 1.3% | 7.2% | On it |
| 11 | Chambray-lès-Tours Indre-et-Loire | 3.5 | 24% | 0% | 181 km |
| 12 | Oissel-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 3.5 | 48% | 3.9% | 54 km |
| 13 | Pornichet Loire-Atlantique | 3.3 | 12% | 0.1% | On it |
| 14 | Le Chambon-Feugerolles Loire | 2.8 | 43% | 0.1% | 205 km |
| 15 | Cogolin Var | 2.7 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 16 | Andernos-les-Bains Gironde | 2.6 | 46% | 3.4% | On it |
| 17 | Saint-André-les-Vergers Aube | 2.5 | 4.4% | 0% | 273 km |
| 18 | Creutzwald Moselle | 2.4 | 57% | 0% | 348 km |
| 19 | Quimperlé Finistère | 2.4 | 24% | 3.9% | 9.2 km |
| 20 | Mende Lozère | 2.4 | 54% | 0% | 115 km |
| 21 | Aubergenville Yvelines | 2.4 | 9.1% | 0% | 121 km |
| 22 | Guidel Morbihan | 2.3 | 23% | 7.8% | On it |
| 23 | La Chapelle-Saint-Luc Aube | 2.3 | 12% | 0% | 270 km |
| 24 | Obernai Bas-Rhin | 2 | 16% | 1.9% | 447 km |
| 25 | Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 26% | 8.9% | 213 km |
| 26 | Brignais Rhône | 2 | 14% | 0% | 241 km |
| 27 | Pont-Sainte-Maxence Oise | 1.8 | 47% | 99% | 118 km |
| 28 | Solliès-Pont Var | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 11 km |
| 29 | Aubenas Ardèche | 1.6 | 6.8% | 18% | 120 km |
| 30 | Vernouillet Eure-et-Loir | 1.5 | 9.6% | 0% | 107 km |
| 31 | Châteaubriant Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 76 km |
| 32 | Pont-du-Château Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 8.9% | 9.7% | 257 km |
| 33 | Bischwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 443 km |
| 34 | Louvres Val-d'Oise | 1.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 139 km |
| 35 | Sablé-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 1 | 12% | 0% | 116 km |
| 36 | Gisors Eure | 0.9 | 34% | 0% | 87 km |
| 37 | Comines Nord | 0.9 | 2.3% | 0% | 48 km |
| 38 | Saint-André-de-Cubzac Gironde | 0.8 | 5.4% | 5.2% | 12 km |
| 39 | Vidauban Var | 0.7 | 22% | 34% | 20 km |
| 40 | Rognac Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 22% | 10% | 16 km |
| 41 | Mèze Hérault | 0.5 | 5.2% | 27% | 6.3 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 Granville
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Christian Dior leads, at 1.1 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du Val-ès-Fleur
Park or garden
2.2 ha0.3 km of path
0.7 km north-westfrom the center
Chemin des Moulins
Directionsto a point inside
Square Maurice Marland
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.4 km of path
1.6 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
7.2% of Granville lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Chausey
7.2% of the commune2.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Chausey
7.2% of the commune2.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Baie du Mont Saint-Michel
1.2 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area7.2%
Natura 2000 site7.2%
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.
7.2% of Granville’s land is protected, more than in 68% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Manche has 0.6%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
36 km of footpaths and 14 km of hiking routes cross Granville
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
3.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked: 1.4 km per km²
Woodland
1.3%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GranvilleManche medianFrance median
Footpaths3.6
Hiking routes1.4
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GranvilleManche medianFrance median
Woodland1.3%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 81% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 92% 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 Granville is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 22313 km
Granville et son roc11 km
Parcours « Vieilles pierres »2.1 km
GR 223 passes within 2 km of Granville.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Granville: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Coutances, 25 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 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 110 | 87 | 76 | 72 | 69 | 65 | 67 | 80 | 82 | 120 | 122 | 144 |
June is the driest month (65 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 144 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 27 nights a year. The climate in Granville →
Neighbors
Next to Granville
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Donville-les-BainsSaint-Pair-sur-MerBréhalSartilly-Baie-BocageQuettreville-sur-SienneAgon-CoutainvilleGranville
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granville | 7.2% | 1.3% | 3.6 | On it |
| Donville-les-Bains 3,146 · 1.3 km | 0% | 2.8% | 3.1 | On it |
| Saint-Pair-sur-Mer 4,507 · 3.7 km | 4.5% | 2.5% | 0.9 | 0.9 km |
| Bréhal 3,487 · 7.7 km | 1.8% | 3.9% | 0.8 | 2.8 km |
| Sartilly-Baie-Bocage 2,778 · 13 km | 0% | 3% | 0.4 | 5.9 km |
| Quettreville-sur-Sienne 3,167 · 18 km | 0% | 1.5% | 0.2 | 6.6 km |
| Agon-Coutainville 3,020 · 23 km | 15% | 1.1% | 1.7 | On it |
Agon-Coutainville 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 Granville
Is Granville in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 7.2% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Granville?
OpenStreetMap maps 36 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 14 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Granville is woodland?
1.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Granville near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 0.8 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Granville?
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.