First pick
Jardin des sœurs
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Malestroit
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Remi Jouan · CC BY-SA 3.017%woodland
Outdoors in Malestroit · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Malestroit is within 800 m of a park or wood
Malestroit has 6 km of waymarked hiking routes. 17 km of footpaths cross Malestroit (3 km per km²). No protected area reaches Malestroit; the nearest, Vallée de l’Arz (Natura 2000), is 9.9 km from the town center. 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: Vallée de l’Arz, 9.9 km
Woodland
17%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
17 km
3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.7 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Jardin des sœurs
The sea
30 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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Malestroit?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes6 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyVallée de l’Arz (Natura 2000) is 9.9 km from the town center.
What sets Malestroit apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Malestroit 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
Woodland17%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
57out of 100
Footpaths3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
73out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
83out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Malestroit has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,524 to 2,589 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From École-Valentin (3.9 km per km²) to Chalamont (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | École-Valentin Doubs | 3.9 | 16% | 0% | 405 km |
| 2 | Josselin Morbihan | 3.7 | 15% | 0% | 36 km |
| 3 | Mers-les-Bains Somme | 3.5 | 10% | 100% | On it |
| 4 | Malestroit Morbihan | 3 | 17% | 0% | 30 km |
| 5 | Villejust Essonne | 2.4 | 4.4% | 0% | 160 km |
| 6 | Sainte-Feyre Creuse | 2.1 | 30% | 0% | 222 km |
| 7 | Camiers Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 30% | 32% | On it |
| 8 | Sain-Bel Rhône | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 253 km |
| 9 | La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur Calvados | 1.8 | 14% | 29% | On it |
| 10 | Fareins Ain | 1.8 | 8.8% | 0.1% | 279 km |
| 11 | Entzheim Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 1.5% | 0% | 449 km |
| 12 | Damparis Jura | 1.6 | 35% | 0% | 401 km |
| 13 | Longueil-Annel Oise | 1.5 | 21% | 0% | 116 km |
| 14 | Mornas Vaucluse | 1.5 | 35% | 5% | 84 km |
| 15 | Saint-Jean-du-Gard Gard | 1.4 | 84% | 100% | 62 km |
| 16 | Watten Nord | 1.4 | 24% | 100% | 18 km |
| 17 | Rantigny Oise | 1.4 | 18% | 0% | 109 km |
| 18 | Beautor Aisne | 1.3 | 3.6% | 40% | 133 km |
| 19 | Granges-Aumontzey Vosges | 1.1 | 70% | 90% | 436 km |
| 20 | Cattenom Moselle | 1.1 | 37% | 0% | 308 km |
| 21 | Pîtres Eure | 0.9 | 47% | 0.2% | 64 km |
| 22 | Arelaune-en-Seine Seine-Maritime | 0.7 | 69% | 100% | 29 km |
| 23 | La Croix-en-Touraine Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 24% | 0% | 199 km |
| 24 | Criel-sur-Mer Seine-Maritime | 0.7 | 4.9% | 7% | On it |
| 25 | Lusignan Vienne | 0.7 | 17% | 0% | 97 km |
| 26 | Avelin Nord | 0.6 | 6.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 27 | Le Cailar Gard | 0.4 | 2% | 68% | 17 km |
| 28 | Xertigny Vosges | 0.4 | 42% | 0% | 417 km |
| 29 | Vervins Aisne | 0.4 | 1.1% | 0% | 164 km |
| 30 | Frans Ain | 0.4 | 4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 31 | Toucy Yonne | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 288 km |
| 32 | Saint-Yzan-de-Soudiac Gironde | 0.3 | 13% | 3% | 19 km |
| 33 | Semussac Charente-Maritime | 0.3 | 3.8% | 6.9% | 5.1 km |
| 34 | Auxi-le-Château Pas-de-Calais | 0.3 | 25% | 1% | 31 km |
| 35 | Vivy Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 100% | 140 km |
| 36 | Nogent-sur-Vernisson Loiret | 0.2 | 46% | 0.3% | 249 km |
| 37 | Eymet Dordogne | 0.2 | 8.6% | 0.4% | 86 km |
| 38 | Athies-sous-Laon Aisne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 0% | 159 km |
| 39 | Val-de-Scie Seine-Maritime | 0.1 | 18% | 0% | 23 km |
| 40 | Noyen-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 0.1 | 28% | 0% | 126 km |
| 41 | Chalamont Ain | 0.1 | 20% | 69% | 284 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 Malestroit
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin des sœurs leads, at 0.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vallée de l’Arz is the nearest protected area, 9.9 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de l’Arz
9.9 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
17 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Malestroit
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
17 km
3 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.7 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
17%
about 1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MalestroitMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths3
Hiking routes1
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MalestroitMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland17%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 73% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 57% 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 Malestroit is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 3478.6 km
Circuit Saint Marc8.6 km
GR 347 passes within 2 km of Malestroit.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Malestroit: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pleucadeuc, 4.9 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) | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 109 | 77 | 62 | 68 | 61 | 53 | 48 | 51 | 67 | 96 | 102 | 113 |
July is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 113 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Malestroit →
Neighbors
Next to Malestroit
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Val d'OustSérentPloërmelQuestembertElvenPlumelecMalestroit
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malestroit | 0% | 17% | 3 | 30 km |
| Val d'Oust 2,807 · 7.5 km | 0% | 23% | 1.5 | 32 km |
| Sérent 3,429 · 9 km | 0% | 25% | 0.3 | 25 km |
| Ploërmel 10,163 · 13 km | 0% | 15% | 1.1 | 39 km |
| Questembert 8,133 · 17 km | 0% | 19% | 0.6 | 16 km |
| Elven 6,651 · 18 km | 100% | 30% | 0.7 | 13 km |
| Plumelec 2,754 · 19 km | 0% | 32% | 0.2 | 21 km |
Elven has at least twice as much protected land. Elven and Plumelec 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 Malestroit
Is Malestroit in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de l’Arz, 9.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Malestroit?
OpenStreetMap maps 17 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Malestroit is woodland?
17% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Malestroit near the sea?
No: the coast is 30 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Malestroit?
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 9, 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.