First pick
Forêt départementale de Kerguéhennec
Wood or forest
93 ha11.5 km of path
2 h 35 minto walk all 11.5 km of path
3.6 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: XIIIfromTOKYO · CC BY-SA 3.013%woodland
Outdoors in Bignan · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Bignan
Footpaths add up to 24 km across Bignan (0.5 km per km²). No protected area reaches Bignan; the nearest, Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park, is 14 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 13% of Bignan. 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: Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park, 14 km
Woodland
13%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
24 km
0.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
94%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
25 km
from the town center to the coast
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.
Against French towns
How Bignan 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
Woodland13%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
48out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
14out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby94%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bignan has the 12th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,731 to 2,780 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Andilly (7.1 km per km²) to Sains-du-Nord (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andilly Val-d'Oise | 7.1 | 53% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Argelès-Gazost Hautes-Pyrénées | 4.3 | 17% | 100% | 130 km |
| 3 | Quintin Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 4.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 4 | Pabu Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 22% | 0% | 15 km |
| 5 | Collioure Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.4 | 6.3% | 4% | On it |
| 6 | Saint-Lunaire Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.6 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Balaruc-le-Vieux Hérault | 2.5 | 5.5% | 19% | 5.4 km |
| 8 | Montfort-l'Amaury Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 100% | 129 km |
| 9 | Malaucène Vaucluse | 2.1 | 57% | 100% | 83 km |
| 10 | Loire-sur-Rhône Rhône | 1.9 | 44% | 84% | 229 km |
| 11 | Saint-Saturnin Sarthe | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 129 km |
| 12 | Ampuis Rhône | 1.7 | 36% | 95% | 222 km |
| 13 | Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel Var | 1.6 | 80% | 0% | 9.2 km |
| 14 | Venarey-les-Laumes Côte-d'Or | 1.5 | 18% | 2.2% | 357 km |
| 15 | Venette Oise | 1.4 | 7.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 16 | L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs Doubs | 1.4 | 50% | 0% | 413 km |
| 17 | Trieux Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 299 km |
| 18 | Beaumont-le-Roger Eure | 1.2 | 79% | 2% | 50 km |
| 19 | Charolles Saône-et-Loire | 1.2 | 20% | 0% | 320 km |
| 20 | Aouste-sur-Sye Drôme | 1.2 | 40% | 2.3% | 141 km |
| 21 | Mussidan Dordogne | 1.1 | 13% | 1.7% | 75 km |
| 22 | Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 100% | 40 km |
| 23 | Ronchamp Haute-Saône | 0.8 | 73% | 100% | 440 km |
| 24 | Saleux Somme | 0.7 | 22% | 0% | 53 km |
| 25 | Connerré Sarthe | 0.7 | 23% | 0% | 144 km |
| 26 | Meslay-du-Maine Mayenne | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 96 km |
| 27 | Marigny-Le-Lozon Manche | 0.7 | 0.2% | 46% | 21 km |
| 28 | Bourron-Marlotte Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 42% | 22% | 211 km |
| 29 | Dieuze Moselle | 0.6 | 21% | 24% | 380 km |
| 30 | Bignan Morbihan | 0.5 | 13% | 0% | 25 km |
| 31 | Warmeriville Marne | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 205 km |
| 32 | Montignac-Lascaux Dordogne | 0.5 | 52% | 1.6% | 138 km |
| 33 | Baixas Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0% | 3.9% | 19 km |
| 34 | Wassy Haute-Marne | 0.5 | 61% | 0% | 302 km |
| 35 | Montrevel-en-Bresse Ain | 0.4 | 7.8% | 0% | 319 km |
| 36 | Huttenheim Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 32% | 35% | 460 km |
| 37 | Sarre-Union Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 21% | 1.7% | 389 km |
| 38 | Thuré Vienne | 0.2 | 29% | 0% | 136 km |
| 39 | Yerville Seine-Maritime | 0.2 | 3.2% | 0% | 24 km |
| 40 | Ennezat Puy-de-Dôme | 0.1 | 0.1% | 0% | 268 km |
| 41 | Sains-du-Nord Nord | 0.1 | 34% | 100% | 149 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 Bignan
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt départementale de Kerguéhennec leads, at 93 ha. Directions go to 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 Bignan 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).
94% within 800 m6.2% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
BignanMorbihan medianFrance median
Within 800 m94%
0%50%100%
About 200 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
Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 14 km away
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
14 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
24 km of footpaths cross Bignan
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
24 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
13%
about 5.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BignanMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BignanMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland13%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 86% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less 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.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 383.6 km
GR 38 passes within 2 km of Bignan.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bignan: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bignan, 3.8 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 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 23 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 115 | 83 | 75 | 78 | 66 | 58 | 52 | 61 | 56 | 114 | 111 | 127 |
July is the driest month (52 mm) and the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 127 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. The climate in Bignan →
Neighbors
Next to Bignan
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
LocminéMoréacSaint-Jean-BrévelayPlumelinPlumelecÉvellysBignan
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Plumelec is 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 Bignan
Is Bignan in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park, 14 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Bignan?
OpenStreetMap maps 24 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Bignan is woodland?
13% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bignan near the sea?
No: the coast is 25 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bignan?
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.