First pick
Parc Utting
Park or garden · 340 m outside the commune
19 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
3.5 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Mike Finn from Worcester, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.018%woodland
Outdoors in Brech · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Brech is on the coast
No protected area reaches Brech; the nearest, Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park, is 1.5 km from the town center. 45 km of footpaths cross Brech (1.1 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 7 km in Brech. 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, 1.5 km
Woodland
18%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
45 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.8 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Utting
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 1.6 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 Brech?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 1.6 km from its center.Protected land nearbyGolfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park is 1.5 km from the town center.
What sets Brech apart: the sea, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Brech 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
48out of 100
Woodland18%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
60out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
36out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
35out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Brech has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,954 to 7,151 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sathonay-Camp (8.3 km per km²) to Saint-Pierre-en-Auge (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sathonay-Camp Rhône | 8.3 | 17% | 0% | 259 km |
| 2 | Guingamp Côtes-d'Armor | 6.8 | 16% | 0% | 16 km |
| 3 | Sainte-Adresse Seine-Maritime | 6.5 | 8.4% | 7.6% | On it |
| 4 | Bailly-Romainvilliers Seine-et-Marne | 4.6 | 10% | 0% | 169 km |
| 5 | Trévoux Ain | 3.9 | 8.3% | 0% | 270 km |
| 6 | Barr Bas-Rhin | 3.8 | 77% | 0% | 450 km |
| 7 | Cognin Savoie | 3.6 | 16% | 44% | 234 km |
| 8 | Balaruc-les-Bains Hérault | 3.5 | 0.7% | 33% | 3.8 km |
| 9 | Leforest Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 18% | 0% | 81 km |
| 10 | Binic-Étables-sur-Mer Côtes-d'Armor | 3.3 | 7.5% | 0% | On it |
| 11 | Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 52% | 0% | 47 km |
| 12 | Fontaines-sur-Saône Rhône | 3 | 14% | 0% | 259 km |
| 13 | Étréchy Essonne | 2.8 | 29% | 0% | 170 km |
| 14 | Auby Nord | 2.8 | 16% | 1.7% | 84 km |
| 15 | Soultz-Haut-Rhin Haut-Rhin | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 456 km |
| 16 | Uckange Moselle | 2.3 | 3.2% | 0% | 312 km |
| 17 | Wissous Essonne | 2.1 | 5.8% | 0% | 159 km |
| 18 | Saint-Rambert-d'Albon Drôme | 1.8 | 6.2% | 1.6% | 201 km |
| 19 | Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes Nord | 1.7 | 0.5% | 0% | 108 km |
| 20 | Bagnères-de-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.6 | 30% | 42% | 144 km |
| 21 | Saint-André-des-Eaux Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 7.8% | 100% | 6.4 km |
| 22 | La Talaudière Loire | 1.5 | 6.6% | 0% | 215 km |
| 23 | Castelnau-d'Estrétefonds Haute-Garonne | 1.4 | 16% | 2.6% | 161 km |
| 24 | Eyguières Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 30 km |
| 25 | Pont-Saint-Martin Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 17% | 1.7% | 33 km |
| 26 | Brech Morbihan | 1.1 | 18% | 0% | On it |
| 27 | Épône Yvelines | 1.1 | 16% | 0% | 119 km |
| 28 | Villemandeur Loiret | 1 | 13% | 0% | 236 km |
| 29 | Jurançon Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 45% | 5.5% | 94 km |
| 30 | Péronne Somme | 1 | 6.5% | 12% | 94 km |
| 31 | Trégunc Finistère | 0.9 | 9.6% | 6.1% | On it |
| 32 | Grandchamp-des-Fontaines Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 8.7% | 0% | 43 km |
| 33 | Bétheny Marne | 0.7 | 0% | 0% | 198 km |
| 34 | Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure Rhône | 0.7 | 4.8% | 0% | 249 km |
| 35 | Marsillargues Hérault | 0.6 | 0.5% | 32% | 13 km |
| 36 | Valognes Manche | 0.5 | 4.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 37 | Nérac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.5 | 6.7% | 0.5% | 122 km |
| 38 | Viriat Ain | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 311 km |
| 39 | Manduel Gard | 0.5 | 0.5% | 63% | 40 km |
| 40 | Chauvigny Vienne | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 140 km |
| 41 | Saint-Pierre-en-Auge Calvados | 0.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 32 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 Brech
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Utting leads, at 19 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Champ-des-Martyrs
Park or garden
0.8 ha0.5 km of path
1.9 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 1.5 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
1.5 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.
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
45 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Brech
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
45 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.8 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
18%
about 7.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BrechMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BrechMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland18%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 64% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 60% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Brech’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin des Douaniers, Le Magouëro - Baden6 km
À deux pas de chez nous5.5 km
Les Bons Voisins1.3 km
Sentier de Keruzerh-Brigitte0.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Brech: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Auray, 5.3 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 Brech →
Neighbors
Next to Brech
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
AuraySainte-Anne-d'AurayPluneretPloemelPlumergatLocoal-MendonBrech
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brech | 0% | 18% | 1.1 | On it |
| Auray 14,207 · 3.7 km | 100% | 8.3% | 5 | On it |
| Sainte-Anne-d'Auray 2,889 · 4.3 km | 100% | 12% | 2.9 | 2.5 km |
| Pluneret 6,262 · 5 km | 100% | 19% | 1.8 | On it |
| Ploemel 3,175 · 6.9 km | 0% | 18% | 0.9 | 3.3 km |
| Plumergat 4,207 · 7.3 km | 0% | 6.6% | 0.4 | 5.9 km |
| Locoal-Mendon 3,530 · 7.4 km | 30% | 17% | 0.3 | On it |
Auray, Sainte-Anne-d'Auray and Pluneret have 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 Brech
Is Brech in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park, 1.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Brech?
OpenStreetMap maps 45 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Brech is woodland?
18% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Brech near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 1.6 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Brech?
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.