First pick
Forêt de Saint-Sauveur
Wood or forest
340 ha7.6 km of path
1 h 40 minto walk all 7.6 km of path
2.9 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Loïc LE BAIL · CC BY 4.032%of the land protected
Outdoors in Plouhinec · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Plouhinec is on the coast
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 63 km in Plouhinec. Protected areas cover 32% of Plouhinec’s land. Mapped woodland covers 24% of Plouhinec. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
32%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
24%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
73 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
63 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt de Saint-Sauveur
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 1.7 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 Plouhinec?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 1.7 km from its center.On waymarked routes63 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected countryside32% of the land lies in protected areas.
What sets Plouhinec apart: the sea, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Plouhinec 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 areas32%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
83out of 100
Woodland24%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
69out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
57out of 100
Hiking routes1.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
94out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Plouhinec has the 12th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,352 to 5,448 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Cormelles-le-Royal (7.2 km per km²) to Noyant-Villages (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cormelles-le-Royal Calvados | 7.2 | 2.2% | 0% | 15 km |
| 2 | Heillecourt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.1 | 1.5% | 0% | 369 km |
| 3 | Marsannay-la-Côte Côte-d'Or | 6 | 47% | 49% | 405 km |
| 4 | Marles-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 3.7% | 0% | 57 km |
| 5 | Crégy-lès-Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 3.5 | 10% | 0% | 159 km |
| 6 | Le Cendre Puy-de-Dôme | 3.4 | 3.3% | 1.8% | 249 km |
| 7 | Levens Alpes-Maritimes | 3 | 64% | 12% | 17 km |
| 8 | Charbonnières-les-Bains Rhône | 2.8 | 16% | 0% | 252 km |
| 9 | Saint-Genis-les-Ollières Rhône | 2.5 | 14% | 0% | 250 km |
| 10 | Roques Haute-Garonne | 2.4 | 4.3% | 40% | 148 km |
| 11 | Peyrolles-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 63% | 69% | 38 km |
| 12 | Plouhinec Morbihan | 2 | 24% | 32% | On it |
| 13 | Calonne-Ricouart Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 1.5% | 0% | 56 km |
| 14 | Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours Seine-et-Marne | 1.8 | 45% | 29% | 214 km |
| 15 | Wervicq-Sud Nord | 1.8 | 3% | 0% | 48 km |
| 16 | Rousset Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 7.1% | 7.7% | 27 km |
| 17 | Arnage Sarthe | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 138 km |
| 18 | Cruseilles Haute-Savoie | 1.6 | 40% | 21% | 273 km |
| 19 | Flers-en-Escrebieux Nord | 1.5 | 12% | 1% | 85 km |
| 20 | Gray Haute-Saône | 1.4 | 47% | 28% | 418 km |
| 21 | Bordères-sur-l'Échez Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.4 | 22% | 0% | 128 km |
| 22 | Vic-le-Comte Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 19% | 100% | 241 km |
| 23 | Lacroix-Saint-Ouen Oise | 1.2 | 73% | 76% | 121 km |
| 24 | Coulogne Pas-de-Calais | 1.2 | 1.1% | 0% | 4.7 km |
| 25 | Saint-Astier Dordogne | 1 | 33% | 8% | 89 km |
| 26 | Aiffres Deux-Sèvres | 1 | 3.4% | 14% | 54 km |
| 27 | Trèbes Aude | 1 | 9.6% | 0% | 54 km |
| 28 | Le Lion-d'Angers Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 5.4% | 0.8% | 115 km |
| 29 | Fenain Nord | 1 | 10% | 99% | 97 km |
| 30 | Drusenheim Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 29% | 17% | 449 km |
| 31 | Saint-Memmie Marne | 0.7 | 4.7% | 0% | 239 km |
| 32 | Boulay-Moselle Moselle | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 339 km |
| 33 | Bléré Indre-et-Loire | 0.6 | 11% | 8.4% | 197 km |
| 34 | Mouguerre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.5 | 40% | 7.9% | 11 km |
| 35 | Reichshoffen Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 27% | 100% | 420 km |
| 36 | Garons Gard | 0.5 | 0.1% | 0% | 35 km |
| 37 | Parigné-l'Évêque Sarthe | 0.5 | 49% | 19% | 149 km |
| 38 | Ploumagoar Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 20% | 0% | 19 km |
| 39 | Reyrieux Ain | 0.4 | 11% | 2.2% | 270 km |
| 40 | Châtillon-sur-Seine Côte-d'Or | 0.4 | 12% | 100% | 334 km |
| 41 | Noyant-Villages Maine-et-Loire | 0.1 | 23% | 13% | 164 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 Plouhinec
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Saint-Sauveur leads, at 340 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin des Dunes
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.1 km of path
1 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
32% of Plouhinec 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 commune1.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Ria d’Etel
11% of the commune0.8 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Rade de Lorient
3.3% of the commune1.4 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area32%
Natura 2000 site32%
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.
32% of Plouhinec’s land is protected, more than in 83% 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
73 km of footpaths and 63 km of hiking routes cross Plouhinec
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
73 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
63 km
waymarked: 1.7 km per km²
Woodland
24%
about 9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PlouhinecMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes1.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PlouhinecMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland24%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 57% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 69% 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 Plouhinec is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
25 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Sentier Côtier Rivière d'Etel21 km
Plouhinec - 215 km
Plouhinec - 114 km
Sainte-Hélène - 414 km
Chemin des Douaniers, Le Magouëro - Baden14 km
Plouhinec - 312 km
Merlevenez - 312 km
Plouhinec - 411 km
Sainte-Hélène - 111 km
Chemin des Douaniers, Concarneau - Le Magouëro10 km
Merlevenez - 18.9 km
Sainte-Hélène - 38.2 km
+13 more
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Plouhinec: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lorient-Lann Bihoue, 17 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 Plouhinec →
Neighbors
Next to Plouhinec
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MerlevenezBelzRiantecErdevenLocmiquélicPort-LouisPlouhinec
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plouhinec | 32% | 24% | 2 | On it |
| Merlevenez 3,174 · 4.9 km | 5.7% | 33% | 0.6 | On it |
| Belz 3,893 · 5.2 km | 13% | 25% | 2.4 | On it |
| Riantec 5,865 · 6.2 km | 7% | 27% | 2.6 | On it |
| Erdeven 4,008 · 8.2 km | 22% | 14% | 2.1 | On it |
| Locmiquélic 4,093 · 8.2 km | 19% | 7.2% | 3.3 | On it |
| Port-Louis 2,608 · 8.5 km | 0.1% | 1.6% | 9.2 | On it |
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 Plouhinec
Is Plouhinec in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 32% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Plouhinec?
OpenStreetMap maps 73 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 63 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Plouhinec is woodland?
24% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Plouhinec near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 1.7 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Plouhinec?
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.