Photo: Moreau.henri · CC BY-SA 4.0Baden lies inside Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park
100% of Baden’s land lies in protected areas. Baden has 21 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 42 km across Baden (1.8 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is Baden?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Baden apart: the regional nature park around it, then the sea.
How Baden 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Baden has the 15th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,039 to 5,133 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Giberville (5.1 km per km²) to Laventie (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giberville Calvados | 5.1 | 3.2% | 0% | 11 km |
| 2 | Pulnoy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 25% | 0% | 368 km |
| 3 | Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 4.3 | 45% | 17% | 95 km |
| 4 | Billy-Berclau Pas-de-Calais | 4 | 15% | 0% | 67 km |
| 5 | Bezannes Marne | 3.4 | 1.8% | 0.1% | 198 km |
| 6 | Ornex Ain | 3.2 | 22% | 0% | 299 km |
| 7 | Sommières Gard | 2.8 | 21% | 1.3% | 25 km |
| 8 | Le Val d'Hazey Eure | 2.6 | 32% | 0.3% | 77 km |
| 9 | Châteaulin Finistère | 2.5 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 10 | Dives-sur-Mer Calvados | 2.5 | 8.8% | 0% | 1.2 km |
| 11 | Haillicourt Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 12 | Saint-Georges-de-Didonne Charente-Maritime | 2.3 | 19% | 37% | On it |
| 13 | Saint-Chéron Essonne | 2.2 | 49% | 0% | 162 km |
| 14 | Bonnières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.1 | 45% | 20% | 99 km |
| 15 | Baden Morbihan | 1.8 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 16 | Cucq Pas-de-Calais | 1.5 | 2.7% | 8.6% | On it |
| 17 | Yffiniac Côtes-d'Armor | 1.5 | 4.4% | 0.1% | 1.8 km |
| 18 | La Ferté Macé Orne | 1.4 | 27% | 100% | 73 km |
| 19 | Chavanoz Isère | 1.3 | 12% | 0% | 258 km |
| 20 | Petite-Forêt Nord | 1.3 | 1.8% | 1.4% | 102 km |
| 21 | Genlis Côte-d'Or | 1.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 418 km |
| 22 | Villefranche-de-Lauragais Haute-Garonne | 1.2 | 0.5% | 0% | 117 km |
| 23 | Saint-Vit Doubs | 1.2 | 30% | 0% | 400 km |
| 24 | Cilaos Réunion | 1.1 | 43% | 100% | 18 km |
| 25 | Muzillac Morbihan | 1 | 4.9% | 7.8% | On it |
| 26 | Villenoy Seine-et-Marne | 1 | 4.7% | 0% | 161 km |
| 27 | Maen Roch Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 28 | Faulquemont Moselle | 0.9 | 22% | 0% | 354 km |
| 29 | Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez Loire | 0.8 | 25% | 1.8% | 215 km |
| 30 | Luynes Indre-et-Loire | 0.8 | 39% | 3.5% | 176 km |
| 31 | Aÿ-Champagne Marne | 0.7 | 16% | 100% | 211 km |
| 32 | Blaye Gironde | 0.7 | 2.7% | 58% | On it |
| 33 | Habsheim Haut-Rhin | 0.7 | 49% | 50% | 438 km |
| 34 | Saint-Sever Landes | 0.6 | 17% | 4.2% | 67 km |
| 35 | Val-de-Moder Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0.1% | 424 km |
| 36 | Ferrière-la-Grande Nord | 0.4 | 8.1% | 100% | 133 km |
| 37 | Sully-sur-Loire Loiret | 0.4 | 25% | 40% | 238 km |
| 38 | Villeneuve-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.1% | 36% | 5.1 km |
| 39 | Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche Corrèze | 0.2 | 25% | 0.3% | 161 km |
| 40 | Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 7% | 0% | 62 km |
| 41 | Laventie Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.7% | 0% | 54 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Protected land in and around Baden
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park
Golfe du Morbihan, côte ouest de Rhuys
Golfe du Morbihan
Share of the commune’s land
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 Baden’s land is protected, more than in 93% 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.
42 km of footpaths and 21 km of hiking routes cross Baden
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is more than in 52% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 52% 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 Baden is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
14 named hiking routes within 2 km
+2 more
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Baden: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Auray, 7 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 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 18 | 13 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 110 | 83 | 68 | 70 | 64 | 54 | 51 | 55 | 72 | 107 | 115 | 122 |
July is the driest month (51 mm) and the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 122 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 22 nights a year. The climate in Baden →
Next to Baden
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Le Bono, Plougoumelen and Crach are more wooded.
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 Baden
Is Baden in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Baden lies in Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Baden?
OpenStreetMap maps 42 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); 21 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Baden is woodland?
15% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Baden near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 1.8 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Baden?
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.