Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Manou56 · CC BY-SA 3.0Mapped woodland covers 23% of Guidel. Footpaths add up to 121 km across Guidel (2.3 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 11 km in Guidel. 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.
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.
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (12,057 to 12,622 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Villetaneuse (11 km per km²) to Saint-Gaudens (0.4 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villetaneuse Seine-Saint-Denis | 11 | 5.1% | 0% | 140 km |
| 2 | La Queue-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.3 | 47% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Saint-Cyprien Pyrénées-Orientales | 6.1 | 0.4% | 3% | On it |
| 4 | Marquette-lez-Lille Nord | 5.6 | 4.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 5 | Ferney-Voltaire Ain | 5.2 | 20% | 0% | 296 km |
| 6 | L'Isle-Adam Val-d'Oise | 5.2 | 60% | 0.2% | 121 km |
| 7 | Riedisheim Haut-Rhin | 4.4 | 29% | 0% | 440 km |
| 8 | Harnes Pas-de-Calais | 4.2 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 9 | Saint-Avé Morbihan | 3.7 | 24% | 97% | 4.5 km |
| 10 | Granville Manche | 3.6 | 1.3% | 7.2% | On it |
| 11 | Oissel-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 3.5 | 48% | 3.9% | 54 km |
| 12 | Bully-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 3.1% | 0% | 71 km |
| 13 | Raismes Nord | 3.2 | 71% | 100% | 100 km |
| 14 | Triel-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.8 | 34% | 0% | 124 km |
| 15 | Le Chambon-Feugerolles Loire | 2.8 | 43% | 0.1% | 205 km |
| 16 | Cogolin Var | 2.7 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 17 | Craponne Rhône | 2.7 | 12% | 0% | 248 km |
| 18 | Creutzwald Moselle | 2.4 | 57% | 0% | 348 km |
| 19 | Quimperlé Finistère | 2.4 | 24% | 3.9% | 9.2 km |
| 20 | Mende Lozère | 2.4 | 54% | 0% | 115 km |
| 21 | Sarrebourg Moselle | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 403 km |
| 22 | Guidel Morbihan | 2.3 | 23% | 7.8% | On it |
| 23 | La Motte-Servolex Savoie | 2.1 | 41% | 0% | 238 km |
| 24 | Obernai Bas-Rhin | 2 | 16% | 1.9% | 447 km |
| 25 | Brignais Rhône | 2 | 14% | 0% | 241 km |
| 26 | Pont-Sainte-Maxence Oise | 1.8 | 47% | 99% | 118 km |
| 27 | Onet-le-Château Aveyron | 1.7 | 2.3% | 1.4% | 137 km |
| 28 | Solliès-Pont Var | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 11 km |
| 29 | Aubenas Ardèche | 1.6 | 6.8% | 18% | 120 km |
| 30 | Vernouillet Eure-et-Loir | 1.5 | 9.6% | 0% | 107 km |
| 31 | Châteaubriant Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 76 km |
| 32 | Cernay Haut-Rhin | 1.4 | 26% | 0.1% | 448 km |
| 33 | Pont-du-Château Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 8.9% | 9.7% | 257 km |
| 34 | Bischwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 443 km |
| 35 | Louvres Val-d'Oise | 1.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 139 km |
| 36 | Sablé-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 1 | 12% | 0% | 116 km |
| 37 | Gisors Eure | 0.9 | 34% | 0% | 87 km |
| 38 | Vidauban Var | 0.7 | 22% | 34% | 20 km |
| 39 | Rognac Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 22% | 10% | 16 km |
| 40 | Castelnaudary Aude | 0.4 | 2% | 0% | 96 km |
| 41 | Saint-Gaudens Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.3% | 3.9% | 186 km |
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Carnoët leads, at 968 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
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.
7.8% of Guidel’s land is protected, more than in 69% 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.
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.
That is more than in 63% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 67% 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 Guidel is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lorient-Lann Bihoue, 5.2 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 Guidel →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guidel | 7.8% | 23% | 2.3 | On it |
| Gestel 2,601 · 3.9 km | 0% | 31% | 3.8 | 3.1 km |
| Quéven 8,991 · 5.9 km | 5.9% | 26% | 2.9 | On it |
| Clohars-Carnoët 4,708 · 6.2 km | 1.3% | 24% | 2 | On it |
| Rédené 3,043 · 7.2 km | 3.5% | 15% | 0.9 | 6.7 km |
| Pont-Scorff 4,037 · 7.9 km | 3.8% | 23% | 1.5 | On it |
| Ploemeur 18,872 · 8 km | 4.9% | 15% | 3.3 | On it |
No, but 7.8% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
OpenStreetMap maps 121 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
23% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 3.8 km from its center.
April to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
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.