First pick
Bois de Kervégant
Wood or forest
97 ha12.5 km of path
2 h 45 minto walk all 12.5 km of path
1.9 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Moreau.henri · CC BY 4.05.9%of the land protected
Outdoors in Quéven · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Quéven is on the coast
Footpaths add up to 72 km across Quéven (2.9 km per km²). 26% of Quéven is mapped woodland. Protected areas cover 5.9% of Quéven’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
5.9%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
26%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
72 km
2.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
8
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Kervégant
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 2.1 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.
Against French towns
How Quéven 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 areas5.9%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
66out of 100
Woodland26%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
71out of 100
Footpaths2.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
73out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Quéven has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,832 to 9,157 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Magny-le-Hongre (6.5 km per km²) to La Fare-les-Oliviers (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magny-le-Hongre Seine-et-Marne | 6.5 | 11% | 0% | 167 km |
| 2 | Grabels Hérault | 6.1 | 9.7% | 0% | 17 km |
| 3 | Les Angles Gard | 5.1 | 27% | 13% | 56 km |
| 4 | Bougival Yvelines | 4.8 | 20% | 0% | 140 km |
| 5 | Bessancourt Val-d'Oise | 4.6 | 29% | 0% | 127 km |
| 6 | Epagny Metz-Tessy Haute-Savoie | 4.4 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 7 | Tomblaine Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.3 | 2.9% | 0% | 368 km |
| 8 | Périgny Charente-Maritime | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0% | 4.1 km |
| 9 | Chartres-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.1 | 5.2% | 0% | 55 km |
| 10 | Quetigny Côte-d'Or | 4 | 0.7% | 0% | 406 km |
| 11 | Meulan-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 3.8 | 11% | 0.4% | 118 km |
| 12 | Gouvieux Oise | 3.5 | 43% | 100% | 122 km |
| 13 | Velaux Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 29% | 25% | 19 km |
| 14 | Longvic Côte-d'Or | 3.1 | 3.4% | 0% | 406 km |
| 15 | Pibrac Haute-Garonne | 3 | 27% | 0% | 159 km |
| 16 | Quéven Morbihan | 2.9 | 26% | 5.9% | On it |
| 17 | Prévessin-Moëns Ain | 2.9 | 17% | 0% | 297 km |
| 18 | Chécy Loiret | 2.9 | 18% | 9.7% | 210 km |
| 19 | Escaudain Nord | 2.9 | 6.3% | 0.2% | 101 km |
| 20 | Breuillet Essonne | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 164 km |
| 21 | Irigny Rhône | 2.8 | 13% | 0% | 242 km |
| 22 | Bellerive-sur-Allier Allier | 2.7 | 23% | 2.2% | 289 km |
| 23 | Cébazat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.6 | 5.6% | 0% | 263 km |
| 24 | Lamorlaye Oise | 2.5 | 42% | 100% | 125 km |
| 25 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Drôme | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 100 km |
| 26 | Boucau Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.2 | 26% | 5.8% | 3.1 km |
| 27 | Saint-Jean-de-Monts Vendée | 2.2 | 13% | 73% | On it |
| 28 | Golbey Vosges | 2.2 | 26% | 0% | 411 km |
| 29 | Morières-lès-Avignon Vaucluse | 2.1 | 4.7% | 0% | 54 km |
| 30 | Roquevaire Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 11% | 66% | 15 km |
| 31 | Cornebarrieu Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 158 km |
| 32 | Pithiviers Loiret | 1.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 198 km |
| 33 | Varennes-Vauzelles Nièvre | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 336 km |
| 34 | Joigny Yonne | 0.9 | 70% | 0% | 274 km |
| 35 | Gonfreville-l'Orcher Seine-Maritime | 0.9 | 5.2% | 6.1% | On it |
| 36 | Veauche Loire | 0.9 | 1.5% | 3.3% | 223 km |
| 37 | Le Thor Vaucluse | 0.7 | 0.9% | 7.2% | 54 km |
| 38 | Nangis Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 10% | 0% | 205 km |
| 39 | Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue Vaucluse | 0.5 | 2% | 11% | 61 km |
| 40 | Grenade Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 9.5% | 14% | 165 km |
| 41 | La Fare-les-Oliviers Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.2 | 0.8% | 44% | 23 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 Quéven
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Kervégant leads, at 97 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du Bois du Château
Park or garden · 240 m outside the commune
11 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
4.1 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Château du Diable
Park or garden · 290 m outside the commune
6.3 ha1.6 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.6 km of path
4.1 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de Kerzec
Park or garden
8.5 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Quéven
Directionsto a point inside
Domaine d'Orient
Park or garden · 40 m outside the commune
3.4 ha
2 km south-eastfrom the center
Rando des Vallons
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin du Bois Joli
Wood or forest
2.6 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
0.9 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Manoir du Pouillot
Park or garden · 50 m outside the commune
1 ha
2.4 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
5.9% of Quéven 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
Rivière Scorff, Forêt de Pont Calleck, Rivière Sarre
5.9% of the commune1.7 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area5.9%
Natura 2000 site5.9%
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.
5.9% of Quéven’s land is protected, more than in 66% 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
72 km of footpaths cross Quéven
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
72 km
2.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
26%
about 6.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
QuévenMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths2.9
Hiking routes0
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
QuévenMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland26%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 73% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 71% 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 Quéven is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit de Saint-Urchaut13 km
Chemin des Douaniers, Concarneau - Le Magouëro1.7 km
Chemin de Lorient0.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Quéven: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lorient-Lann Bihoue, 3.3 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 Quéven →
Neighbors
Next to Quéven
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GestelLorientPont-ScorffCaudanGuidelLanesterQuéven
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Quéven
Is Quéven in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 5.9% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Quéven?
OpenStreetMap maps 72 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Quéven is woodland?
26% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Quéven near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 2.1 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Quéven?
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 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.