First pick
Rives du Vincin
Wood or forest · 50 m outside the commune
19 ha3.1 km of path
40 minto walk all 3.1 km of path
2.9 km eastfrom the center
Rives du VincinChemin des Rives du Vincin
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Moreau.henri · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Arradon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Arradon lies inside Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park
100% of Arradon’s land lies in protected areas. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 28 km in Arradon. 16% of Arradon is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
16%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
34 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
28 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: Rives du Vincin
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 1.1 km from its center
Throughout this page, the Morbihan 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 Arradon?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 1.1 km from its center.On waymarked routes28 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Arradon apart: the regional nature park around it, then the sea.
Against French towns
How Arradon 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
95out of 100
Woodland16%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
55out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Hiking routes1.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
92out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Arradon has the 18th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,798 to 5,873 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Grand-Charmont (5.8 km per km²) to Lesparre-Médoc (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand-Charmont Doubs | 5.8 | 39% | 0% | 420 km |
| 2 | Buc Yvelines | 5.6 | 45% | 0% | 148 km |
| 3 | Chambourcy Yvelines | 4.7 | 37% | 0% | 133 km |
| 4 | Algrange Moselle | 3.6 | 48% | 0% | 302 km |
| 5 | Roquefort-la-Bédoule Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 50% | 40% | 5.6 km |
| 6 | Boé Lot-et-Garonne | 3.2 | 2.6% | 4.3% | 135 km |
| 7 | Oberhausbergen Bas-Rhin | 3.1 | 6.2% | 0% | 446 km |
| 8 | Sillingy Haute-Savoie | 3.1 | 21% | 0% | 267 km |
| 9 | Douvrin Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 8.1% | 0% | 67 km |
| 10 | Ludres Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.9 | 24% | 0% | 369 km |
| 11 | Seloncourt Doubs | 2.8 | 36% | 0% | 412 km |
| 12 | Riantec Morbihan | 2.6 | 27% | 7% | On it |
| 13 | Villabé Essonne | 2.6 | 22% | 0% | 179 km |
| 14 | Annezin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 10% | 0% | 59 km |
| 15 | Garéoult Var | 2.2 | 30% | 51% | 26 km |
| 16 | Ventabren Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.9 | 8% | 45% | 20 km |
| 17 | Dol-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 6.4 km |
| 18 | Arradon Morbihan | 1.8 | 16% | 100% | On it |
| 19 | Nieul-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 1.8 | 0.2% | 4.5% | On it |
| 20 | Bédarieux Hérault | 1.6 | 23% | 100% | 41 km |
| 21 | Port-la-Nouvelle Aude | 1.6 | 5.2% | 82% | On it |
| 22 | La Wantzenau Bas-Rhin | 1.5 | 27% | 41% | 449 km |
| 23 | Cessy Ain | 1.5 | 5.4% | 0.2% | 304 km |
| 24 | Gond-Pontouvre Charente | 1.4 | 15% | 16% | 77 km |
| 25 | Lannemezan Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.2 | 26% | 0% | 160 km |
| 26 | Kembs Haut-Rhin | 1.1 | 50% | 63% | 431 km |
| 27 | Saint-Just-en-Chaussée Oise | 0.8 | 7.8% | 0% | 92 km |
| 28 | Roye Somme | 0.8 | 3.5% | 0% | 96 km |
| 29 | Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 0.3% | 100% | 27 km |
| 30 | Viry Haute-Savoie | 0.7 | 30% | 0% | 284 km |
| 31 | Saint-Galmier Loire | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | 227 km |
| 32 | Bessan Hérault | 0.6 | 3.4% | 39% | 8.1 km |
| 33 | Mouroux Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 21% | 0% | 180 km |
| 34 | Le Poinçonnet Indre | 0.5 | 66% | 0% | 224 km |
| 35 | Briec Finistère | 0.5 | 6.1% | 0% | 14 km |
| 36 | Montmorillon Vienne | 0.4 | 11% | 28% | 152 km |
| 37 | Fismes Marne | 0.4 | 21% | 0% | 174 km |
| 38 | Le Barp Gironde | 0.2 | 67% | 100% | 21 km |
| 39 | Montpon-Ménestérol Dordogne | 0.2 | 37% | 12% | 59 km |
| 40 | Rabastens Tarn | 0.2 | 4.3% | 0.1% | 139 km |
| 41 | Lesparre-Médoc Gironde | 0.1 | 58% | 100% | 11 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 Arradon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Rives du Vincin leads, at 19 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois Communal du Ratz
Wood or forest
8.9 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
1.8 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
parc arboré du Petit Molac
Park or garden
0.4 ha
2.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Arradon
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Golfe du Morbihan, côte ouest de Rhuys
13% of the commune0.8 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Golfe du Morbihan
1.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site13%
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.
100% of Arradon’s land is protected, more than in 95% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Morbihan has 4.4%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
34 km of footpaths and 28 km of hiking routes cross Arradon
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
34 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
28 km
waymarked: 1.5 km per km²
Woodland
16%
about 3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ArradonMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes1.5
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ArradonMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland16%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 54% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 55% 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 Arradon is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
11 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin des Douaniers, Baden - Vannes31 km
Circuit des deux moulins13 km
Circuit des deux pointes11 km
Les Rives de Vannes9.6 km
Pomper - Port Blanc7.9 km
La boucle d'Assénac7 km
Chemin des Douaniers, Vannes - Noyalo6.6 km
Sentiers de l'ïle d'Arz3.9 km
Sentier des Gabelous3.5 km
Gwened au fil de son patrimoine3.1 km
Sentier Côtier0.9 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Arradon: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St-Ave, 9.5 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 | 11.8 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 18 | 13 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 127 | 91 | 73 | 75 | 66 | 57 | 54 | 58 | 70 | 109 | 120 | 135 |
July is the driest month (54 mm) and the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 135 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 25 nights a year. The climate in Arradon →
Neighbors
Next to Arradon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PloerenVannesBadenSénéPlougoumelenPlescopArradon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Arradon
Is Arradon in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Arradon lies in Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Arradon?
OpenStreetMap maps 34 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); 28 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Arradon is woodland?
16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Arradon near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 1.1 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Arradon?
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 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.