First pick
Parc urbain du Poumont Vert
Park or garden
11 ha3 km of path
40 minto walk all 3 km of path
0.9 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: B25es · CC BY-SA 3.014%woodland
Outdoors in Pontivy · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Pontivy is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 69 km across Pontivy (2.8 km per km²). No protected area reaches Pontivy; the nearest, Rivière Scorff, Forêt de Pont Calleck, Rivière Sarre (Natura 2000), is 5.5 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 14 km in Pontivy. 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: Rivière Scorff, Forêt de Pont Calleck, Rivière Sarre, 5.5 km
Woodland
14%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
69 km
2.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc urbain du Poumont Vert
The sea
36 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.
Against French towns
How Pontivy 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
Woodland14%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
51out of 100
Footpaths2.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
70out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
64out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Pontivy has the 20th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (14,244 to 15,057 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Maurice (8.8 km per km²) to Castelsarrasin (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Maurice Val-de-Marne | 8.8 | 9.4% | 0% | 157 km |
| 2 | Valenton Val-de-Marne | 8.7 | 6.6% | 0% | 164 km |
| 3 | Verrières-le-Buisson Essonne | 8.5 | 52% | 3.9% | 156 km |
| 4 | Villers-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 8.4 | 48% | 0% | 365 km |
| 5 | Laxou Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.9 | 74% | 0% | 364 km |
| 6 | Billère Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 6.7 | 4.2% | 9.2% | 93 km |
| 7 | Chenôve Côte-d'Or | 6.5 | 10% | 17% | 403 km |
| 8 | Montargis Loiret | 4.8 | 5.7% | 0% | 237 km |
| 9 | Dinan Côtes-d'Armor | 4.7 | 17% | 100% | 5.6 km |
| 10 | Montesson Yvelines | 4.7 | 2.3% | 0% | 136 km |
| 11 | Saint-Genis-Pouilly Ain | 4.5 | 17% | 0.3% | 298 km |
| 12 | Saint-Avertin Indre-et-Loire | 4.3 | 14% | 0% | 184 km |
| 13 | Canteleu Seine-Maritime | 3.7 | 64% | 100% | 49 km |
| 14 | Bar-le-Duc Meuse | 3.7 | 55% | 0% | 297 km |
| 15 | Saint-Orens-de-Gameville Haute-Garonne | 3.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 138 km |
| 16 | Woippy Moselle | 3.1 | 12% | 0% | 325 km |
| 17 | Bois-Guillaume Seine-Maritime | 3 | 3.8% | 0% | 50 km |
| 18 | Montataire Oise | 2.9 | 11% | 0.1% | 116 km |
| 19 | Ollioules Var | 2.9 | 23% | 14% | On it |
| 20 | Plérin Côtes-d'Armor | 2.9 | 14% | 1.8% | On it |
| 21 | Rixheim Haut-Rhin | 2.8 | 41% | 23% | 441 km |
| 22 | Pontivy Morbihan | 2.8 | 14% | 0% | 36 km |
| 23 | L'Étang-Salé Réunion | 2.6 | 52% | 39% | On it |
| 24 | Persan Val-d'Oise | 2.5 | 0.3% | 0.1% | 120 km |
| 25 | Saint-Avold Moselle | 2.5 | 53% | 2.9% | 356 km |
| 26 | Saint-Jean-de-Luz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.4 | 28% | 7.6% | On it |
| 27 | Carrières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.2 | 5% | 0% | 138 km |
| 28 | Fameck Moselle | 2.2 | 32% | 0% | 309 km |
| 29 | Crépy-en-Valois Oise | 2 | 16% | 0% | 137 km |
| 30 | Illzach Haut-Rhin | 1.9 | 2.6% | 0% | 443 km |
| 31 | Flers Orne | 1.6 | 2.5% | 0% | 59 km |
| 32 | Saint-Brevin-les-Pins Loire-Atlantique | 1.6 | 7.3% | 25% | On it |
| 33 | Saint-Paul-lès-Dax Landes | 1.6 | 62% | 5.3% | 29 km |
| 34 | Saint-Omer Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 2.8% | 100% | 28 km |
| 35 | Arnouville Val-d'Oise | 1.6 | 4.6% | 0% | 141 km |
| 36 | La Flèche Sarthe | 1.3 | 34% | 11% | 140 km |
| 37 | Le Raincy Seine-Saint-Denis | 0.8 | 0% | 0.1% | 153 km |
| 38 | Romilly-sur-Seine Aube | 0.8 | 35% | 4.2% | 237 km |
| 39 | Bailleul Nord | 0.7 | 0.9% | 0% | 42 km |
| 40 | Saint-Gilles Gard | 0.4 | 2.5% | 18% | 25 km |
| 41 | Castelsarrasin Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 5.6% | 6.8% | 173 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 Pontivy
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc urbain du Poumont Vert leads, at 11 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Square Lenglier
Park or garden
1.4 ha0.9 km of path
15 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
Centralin the middle of Pontivy
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Rivière Scorff, Forêt de Pont Calleck, Rivière Sarre is the nearest protected area, 5.5 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
Rivière Scorff, Forêt de Pont Calleck, Rivière Sarre
5.5 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
69 km of footpaths and 14 km of hiking routes cross Pontivy
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
69 km
2.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
14%
about 3.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PontivyMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths2.8
Hiking routes0.5
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PontivyMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland14%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 70% 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. Every home in Pontivy is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
De Lanester au Lac de Guerlédan, Lanester - Saint-Gérand13 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Pontivy: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Moreac, 20 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 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 132 | 93 | 74 | 76 | 65 | 58 | 49 | 59 | 70 | 113 | 118 | 136 |
July is the driest month (49 mm) and the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 136 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 33 nights a year. The climate in Pontivy →
Neighbors
Next to Pontivy
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Noyal-PontivyCléguérecPluméliau-BieuzyÉvellysGuerlédanMoréacPontivy
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontivy | 0% | 14% | 2.8 | 36 km |
| Noyal-Pontivy 3,606 · 5.9 km | 0% | 3.1% | 0.2 | 40 km |
| Cléguérec 2,885 · 9.4 km | 0% | 15% | 0.2 | 37 km |
| Pluméliau-Bieuzy 4,632 · 11 km | 0% | 16% | 0.4 | 26 km |
| Évellys 3,379 · 12 km | 0% | 6% | 0.1 | 32 km |
| Guerlédan 2,532 · 15 km | 1.3% | 9.3% | 0.7 | 39 km |
| Moréac 3,704 · 20 km | 0% | 4.2% | 0.1 | 28 km |
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 Pontivy
Is Pontivy in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Rivière Scorff, Forêt de Pont Calleck, Rivière Sarre, 5.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Pontivy?
OpenStreetMap maps 69 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 14 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Pontivy is woodland?
14% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Pontivy near the sea?
No: the coast is 36 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Pontivy?
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.