Photo: Fab5669 · CC BY-SA 4.0Parks, woods and footpaths in Nivillac
28 km of footpaths cross Nivillac (0.5 km per km²). 9.4% of Nivillac is mapped woodland. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 24 km in Nivillac. 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.
What kind of outdoors place is Nivillac?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Nivillac apart: the sea nearby. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Nivillac 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Nivillac has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,895 to 5,008 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Villefranche-sur-Mer (4.2 km per km²) to Charny Orée de Puisaye (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villefranche-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes | 4.2 | 19% | 26% | On it |
| 2 | Beaucourt Territoire de Belfort | 3.7 | 33% | 0% | 414 km |
| 3 | Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche Yvelines | 3.6 | 38% | 0% | 136 km |
| 4 | Le Versoud Isère | 3.2 | 18% | 0% | 202 km |
| 5 | Pechbonnieu Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 15% | 0% | 150 km |
| 6 | Gratentour Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 7 | Luzarches Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 47% | 100% | 130 km |
| 8 | Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers Hérault | 2.6 | 48% | 66% | 26 km |
| 9 | La Grand-Croix Loire | 2.5 | 15% | 0% | 219 km |
| 10 | Ballainvilliers Essonne | 2.4 | 2.3% | 0% | 164 km |
| 11 | La Mure Isère | 2.2 | 10% | 0% | 176 km |
| 12 | Montchanin Saône-et-Loire | 2.1 | 20% | 0% | 355 km |
| 13 | Sainte-Marie-la-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.9 | 1.4% | 1.3% | On it |
| 14 | Lorette Loire | 1.8 | 13% | 0.2% | 220 km |
| 15 | Bousbecque Nord | 1.5 | 1.4% | 0% | 49 km |
| 16 | Laigneville Oise | 1.5 | 29% | 0% | 112 km |
| 17 | Mamers Sarthe | 1.4 | 0.9% | 0.1% | 110 km |
| 18 | Bitche Moselle | 1.3 | 75% | 100% | 398 km |
| 19 | Crécy-la-Chapelle Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 21% | 0% | 172 km |
| 20 | Cluny Saône-et-Loire | 1.1 | 42% | 100% | 322 km |
| 21 | La Souterraine Creuse | 1.1 | 18% | 0% | 193 km |
| 22 | Claira Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.1 | 0% | 0% | 7 km |
| 23 | Bruyères-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1 | 3.1% | 0.2% | 122 km |
| 24 | Le Fenouiller Vendée | 1 | 4.1% | 9.9% | 3.5 km |
| 25 | Verneuil-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 1 | 23% | 0% | 154 km |
| 26 | Mourmelon-le-Grand Marne | 1 | 29% | 0.1% | 226 km |
| 27 | Créon Gironde | 0.9 | 24% | 0% | 32 km |
| 28 | Briare Loiret | 0.8 | 27% | 7.9% | 266 km |
| 29 | Souppes-sur-Loing Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 19% | 1.4% | 223 km |
| 30 | Sainte-Eulalie Gironde | 0.6 | 7.3% | 0% | 14 km |
| 31 | Heyrieux Isère | 0.6 | 6.6% | 0% | 242 km |
| 32 | Decize Nièvre | 0.6 | 15% | 32% | 355 km |
| 33 | Nivillac Morbihan | 0.5 | 9.4% | 3.7% | 9.4 km |
| 34 | Neuville-aux-Bois Loiret | 0.5 | 19% | 0% | 196 km |
| 35 | Witry-lès-Reims Marne | 0.4 | 3.6% | 0% | 201 km |
| 36 | Lisle-sur-Tarn Tarn | 0.4 | 30% | 0% | 136 km |
| 37 | Verdun-sur-Garonne Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 12% | 8.5% | 174 km |
| 38 | Val d'Erdre-Auxence Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 11% | 0% | 97 km |
| 39 | Castelnau-de-Médoc Gironde | 0.2 | 82% | 100% | 10 km |
| 40 | Saint-Laurent-Médoc Gironde | 0.1 | 61% | 100% | 7.6 km |
| 41 | Charny Orée de Puisaye Yonne | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 266 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
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9 in 10 residents of Nivillac 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).
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
About 500 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.
3.7% of Nivillac lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Brière Regional Nature Park
Marais de Vilaine
Chiroptères du Morbihan
Share of the commune’s land
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.
3.7% of Nivillac’s land is protected, more than in 63% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Morbihan has 4.4%. 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.
28 km of footpaths and 24 km of hiking routes cross Nivillac
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 86% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 62% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Nivillac: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Arzal, 8.9 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 | 15.9 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 97 | 76 | 64 | 66 | 63 | 49 | 47 | 55 | 66 | 93 | 104 | 107 |
July is the driest month (47 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 107 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 28 nights a year. The climate in Nivillac →
Next to Nivillac
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nivillac | 3.7% | 9.4% | 0.5 | 9.4 km |
| Marzan 2,684 · 5.6 km | 0% | 18% | 0.6 | 5.2 km |
| Férel 3,499 · 7.5 km | 0% | 20% | 0.7 | 3.7 km |
| Saint-Dolay 2,645 · 7.6 km | 14% | 18% | 0.5 | 17 km |
| Péaule 2,929 · 7.8 km | 1.9% | 21% | 0.7 | 8.9 km |
| Missillac 5,709 · 9.2 km | 100% | 19% | 0 | 16 km |
| La Chapelle-des-Marais 4,492 · 10 km | 100% | 4.4% | 0.8 | 12 km |
Saint-Dolay, Missillac and La Chapelle-des-Marais have at least twice as much protected land. Férel and Péaule are more wooded.
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 Nivillac
Is Nivillac in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 3.7% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Nivillac?
OpenStreetMap maps 28 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 24 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Nivillac is woodland?
9.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Nivillac near the sea?
No: the coast is 9.4 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Nivillac?
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.