First pick
Bois du Hingair
Wood or forest · 0 m outside the commune
104 ha14.3 km of path
3 h 10 minto walk all 14.3 km of path
4.1 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Quoique · CC BY-SA 4.03.4%of the land protected
Outdoors in Caudan · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Caudan is on the coast
52 km of footpaths cross Caudan (1.2 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 16% of Caudan. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 17 km in Caudan. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
3.4%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
16%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
52 km
1.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
7
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois du Hingair
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 3 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.
Against French towns
How Caudan 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 areas3.4%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
62out of 100
Woodland16%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
54out of 100
Footpaths1.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
38out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Caudan has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,111 to 7,292 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Guingamp (6.8 km per km²) to Herbignac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guingamp Côtes-d'Armor | 6.8 | 16% | 0% | 16 km |
| 2 | Colombelles Calvados | 4.9 | 3.1% | 0% | 9.7 km |
| 3 | Saint-Ismier Isère | 4.5 | 40% | 31% | 206 km |
| 4 | Labenne Landes | 4 | 54% | 20% | 2.8 km |
| 5 | Écouen Val-d'Oise | 4 | 16% | 0% | 135 km |
| 6 | Égly Essonne | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 167 km |
| 7 | Balaruc-les-Bains Hérault | 3.5 | 0.7% | 33% | 3.8 km |
| 8 | Vendargues Hérault | 3.3 | 11% | 0% | 12 km |
| 9 | Roquefort-les-Pins Alpes-Maritimes | 3.3 | 52% | 15% | 8 km |
| 10 | Eckbolsheim Bas-Rhin | 3.1 | 7.3% | 0% | 448 km |
| 11 | Vizille Isère | 2.8 | 48% | 0% | 193 km |
| 12 | Ugine Savoie | 2.2 | 58% | 2.4% | 236 km |
| 13 | Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis Yvelines | 2.2 | 13% | 100% | 140 km |
| 14 | Waziers Nord | 2.2 | 4.9% | 0% | 88 km |
| 15 | Wissous Essonne | 2.1 | 5.8% | 0% | 159 km |
| 16 | Chauray Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 2.4% | 0% | 58 km |
| 17 | La Gaude Alpes-Maritimes | 1.8 | 44% | 2.8% | 7.1 km |
| 18 | Montauroux Var | 1.8 | 61% | 9.8% | 16 km |
| 19 | Bourg-Saint-Maurice Savoie | 1.8 | 15% | 0.4% | 211 km |
| 20 | Bagnères-de-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.6 | 30% | 42% | 144 km |
| 21 | Le Pian-Médoc Gironde | 1.6 | 60% | 100% | 8.2 km |
| 22 | Kervignac Morbihan | 1.5 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 23 | La Talaudière Loire | 1.5 | 6.6% | 0% | 215 km |
| 24 | Templeuve-en-Pévèle Nord | 1.4 | 11% | 0% | 76 km |
| 25 | Eyguières Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 30 km |
| 26 | Caudan Morbihan | 1.2 | 16% | 3.4% | On it |
| 27 | Mably Loire | 1.2 | 6.8% | 4.4% | 279 km |
| 28 | Pleurtuit Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.2 | 9.8% | 100% | On it |
| 29 | Divatte-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 7.5% | 5.6% | 56 km |
| 30 | Orgeval Yvelines | 1.1 | 27% | 0% | 129 km |
| 31 | Les Trois-Bassins Réunion | 1 | 20% | 82% | On it |
| 32 | Lodève Hérault | 1 | 51% | 100% | 47 km |
| 33 | Montoir-de-Bretagne Loire-Atlantique | 0.9 | 0.2% | 50% | On it |
| 34 | Trégunc Finistère | 0.9 | 9.6% | 6.1% | On it |
| 35 | Salazie Réunion | 0.9 | 63% | 100% | 16 km |
| 36 | Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.6 | 37% | 6.3% | 8.8 km |
| 37 | Aubigny-Les Clouzeaux Vendée | 0.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 24 km |
| 38 | Sainte-Pazanne Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 4.9% | 0% | 15 km |
| 39 | Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton Eure | 0.4 | 20% | 1.5% | 87 km |
| 40 | La Ferté-Saint-Aubin Loiret | 0.4 | 68% | 100% | 224 km |
| 41 | Herbignac Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 14% | 100% | 7.8 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 Caudan
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois du Hingair leads, at 104 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Kervégant
Wood or forest · 40 m outside the commune
97 ha12.5 km of path
2 h 45 minto walk all 12.5 km of path
4.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de Pistol
Wood or forest · 270 m outside the commune
53 ha4.6 km of path
1 hto walk all 4.6 km of path
4.6 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de Kério
Wood or forest
34 ha6 km of path
1 h 20 minto walk all 6 km of path
1.3 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Bois du Château
Park or garden · 220 m outside the commune
11 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
5.2 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Château du Diable
Park or garden
6.3 ha1.6 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.6 km of path
4.3 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de Saint-Nudec
Wood or forest · 310 m outside the commune
9.9 ha2.3 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.3 km of path
4 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
3.4% of Caudan 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
Rivière Scorff, Forêt de Pont Calleck, Rivière Sarre
3.4% of the commune2.8 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area3.4%
Natura 2000 site3.4%
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.
3.4% of Caudan’s land is protected, more than in 62% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Morbihan has 4.4%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
52 km of footpaths and 17 km of hiking routes cross Caudan
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
52 km
1.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
16%
about 6.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CaudanMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths1.2
Hiking routes0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CaudanMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland16%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 62% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 54% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Caudan’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
10 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
De Lanester au Lac de Guerlédan, Lanester - Saint-Gérand13 km
Circuit de Saint-Urchaut13 km
Chemin de Lorient12 km
Circuit du cimetière de bateaux de Kerhervy10 km
Circuit Tro Glas Kaodan9.6 km
Circuit du Hingair6.5 km
Chemin des Douaniers, Concarneau - Le Magouëro5.6 km
Circuit du marais de la Goden4.8 km
Circuit de Coët Letune4.6 km
Circuit des forgerons2.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Caudan: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lorient-Lann Bihoue, 8.6 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 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 109 | 83 | 66 | 68 | 66 | 52 | 55 | 53 | 66 | 104 | 108 | 115 |
June is the driest month (52 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 115 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 22 nights a year. The climate in Caudan →
Neighbors
Next to Caudan
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
LanesterHennebontPont-ScorffQuévenCléguerLorientCaudan
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Hennebont, Quéven and Cléguer are 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 Caudan
Is Caudan in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 3.4% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Caudan?
OpenStreetMap maps 52 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Caudan is woodland?
16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Caudan near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 3 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Caudan?
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.