First pick
Coët-er-Lann
Wood or forest
181 ha6.9 km of path
1 h 30 minto walk all 6.9 km of path
2.5 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Moreau.henri · CC BY-SA 4.022%of the land protected
Outdoors in Erdeven · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Erdeven is on the coast
22% of Erdeven’s land lies in protected areas. Erdeven has 15 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 63 km across Erdeven (2.1 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
22%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
14%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
63 km
2.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
15 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
71%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 2.9 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 Erdeven?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 2.9 km from its center.Green space can be a walk away29% of residents live more than 800 m from a mapped park or wood.
What sets Erdeven apart: the sea. It is shorter on green space near some homes.
Against French towns
How Erdeven 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 areas22%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
79out of 100
Woodland14%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
51out of 100
Footpaths2.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
59out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
62out of 100
Green space nearby71%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
2out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Erdeven has the 10th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,986 to 4,031 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vaux-sur-Mer (5.3 km per km²) to Sévérac d'Aveyron (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vaux-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 5.3 | 10% | 0.2% | On it |
| 2 | Montsoult Val-d'Oise | 4.5 | 42% | 0.9% | 129 km |
| 3 | Montmélian Savoie | 4.3 | 47% | 100% | 222 km |
| 4 | Saint-Vallier Drôme | 3.8 | 32% | 0% | 189 km |
| 5 | Port-Vendres Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.2 | 0.8% | 18% | On it |
| 6 | Presles Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 47% | 100% | 124 km |
| 7 | Neuville-Saint-Rémy Nord | 3 | 4% | 0% | 109 km |
| 8 | Limonest Rhône | 3 | 30% | 0% | 258 km |
| 9 | Vaulnaveys-le-Haut Isère | 2.2 | 67% | 0% | 195 km |
| 10 | Erdeven Morbihan | 2.1 | 14% | 22% | On it |
| 11 | Pléneuf-Val-André Côtes-d'Armor | 1.8 | 10% | 2.6% | On it |
| 12 | Oberhoffen-sur-Moder Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 25% | 11% | 442 km |
| 13 | La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois Charente | 1.6 | 39% | 16% | 95 km |
| 14 | Rives-en-Seine Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 42% | 100% | 28 km |
| 15 | Avesnes-sur-Helpe Nord | 1.4 | 1.7% | 100% | 142 km |
| 16 | Le Plessis-Belleville Oise | 1.4 | 1.5% | 0.1% | 143 km |
| 17 | Duclair Seine-Maritime | 1.3 | 8.1% | 100% | 37 km |
| 18 | Cinq-Mars-la-Pile Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 28% | 14% | 167 km |
| 19 | Salernes Var | 1.2 | 68% | 26% | 42 km |
| 20 | Ingwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 61% | 100% | 414 km |
| 21 | La Gacilly Morbihan | 1.1 | 27% | 4.9% | 34 km |
| 22 | Fourchambault Nièvre | 1.1 | 16% | 11% | 332 km |
| 23 | Nogent-le-Roi Eure-et-Loir | 1.1 | 10% | 0.1% | 123 km |
| 24 | Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 30% | 19% | 29 km |
| 25 | Cordemais Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 7.6% | 24% | 24 km |
| 26 | Propriano Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 19% | 3.7% | On it |
| 27 | Semur-en-Auxois Côte-d'Or | 0.9 | 21% | 0% | 357 km |
| 28 | Masny Nord | 0.9 | 4% | 0% | 95 km |
| 29 | Bresles Oise | 0.8 | 19% | 0% | 95 km |
| 30 | Bourg-Achard Eure | 0.7 | 5.5% | 0% | 34 km |
| 31 | Savigné-l'Évêque Sarthe | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 137 km |
| 32 | Gravigny Eure | 0.7 | 47% | 0% | 73 km |
| 33 | Raimbeaucourt Nord | 0.7 | 16% | 99% | 83 km |
| 34 | La Haye Manche | 0.7 | 3.6% | 51% | On it |
| 35 | Fay-de-Bretagne Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 9.9% | 0% | 31 km |
| 36 | La Chapelle-de-Guinchay Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 5.5% | 5.6% | 300 km |
| 37 | Saint-Fulgent Vendée | 0.5 | 5.8% | 0% | 57 km |
| 38 | Les Villages Vovéens Eure-et-Loir | 0.4 | 7.4% | 5% | 159 km |
| 39 | Layrac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 21% | 0.9% | 139 km |
| 40 | Grand Bourgtheroulde Eure | 0.3 | 4.2% | 0% | 40 km |
| 41 | Sévérac d'Aveyron Aveyron | 0.2 | 24% | 100% | 114 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 Erdeven
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Coët-er-Lann leads, at 181 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois du Varquez
Wood or forest
160 ha2.4 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.4 km of path
2.7 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
7 in 10 residents of Erdeven 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).
71% within 800 m29% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
ErdevenMorbihan medianFrance median
Within 800 m71%
0%50%100%
About 1,100 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
22% of Erdeven 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
Massif dunaire Gâvres-Quiberon et zones humides associées
21% of the commune1.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Ria d’Etel
0.7% of the commune2.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area22%
Natura 2000 site22%
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.
22% of Erdeven’s land is protected, more than in 79% 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
63 km of footpaths and 15 km of hiking routes cross Erdeven
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
63 km
2.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
15 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
14%
about 4.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ErdevenMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths2.1
Hiking routes0.5
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ErdevenMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland14%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 59% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 51% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
9 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin des Douaniers, Le Magouëro - Baden21 km
Sentier des Mégalithes8.3 km
Pointe de Larmor6.1 km
Etre douar ar mor5 km
Circuit des Alignements d'Erdeven5 km
Boucle du Ouerch4.1 km
Sentier Côtier Rivière d'Etel3.1 km
Plouhinec - 12.5 km
Circuit des Abbayes1.1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Erdeven: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Auray, 14 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 Erdeven →
Neighbors
Next to Erdeven
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BelzPloemelPlouhinecLocoal-MendonCarnacMerlevenezErdeven
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erdeven | 22% | 14% | 2.1 | On it |
| Belz 3,893 · 4 km | 13% | 25% | 2.4 | On it |
| Ploemel 3,175 · 6.8 km | 0% | 18% | 0.9 | 3.3 km |
| Plouhinec 5,400 · 8.2 km | 32% | 24% | 2 | On it |
| Locoal-Mendon 3,530 · 8.3 km | 30% | 17% | 0.3 | On it |
| Carnac 4,194 · 8.3 km | 2.5% | 25% | 1.7 | On it |
| Merlevenez 3,174 · 12 km | 5.7% | 33% | 0.6 | On it |
Belz, Plouhinec and Carnac 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 Erdeven
Is Erdeven in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 22% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Erdeven?
OpenStreetMap maps 63 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 15 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Erdeven is woodland?
14% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Erdeven near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 2.9 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Erdeven?
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.