First pick
Forêt de Saint-Sauveur
Wood or forest · 170 m outside the commune
340 ha7.6 km of path
1 h 40 minto walk all 7.6 km of path
4.6 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Flechino · Public domain7%of the land protected
Outdoors in Riantec · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Riantec is on the coast
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 14 km in Riantec. 27% of Riantec is mapped woodland. 38 km of footpaths cross Riantec (2.6 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
7%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
27%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
38 km
2.6 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: Forêt de Saint-Sauveur
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 0.5 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 Riantec?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 0.5 km from its center.On waymarked routes14 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Riantec apart: the sea, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Riantec 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 areas7%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
68out of 100
Woodland27%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
72out of 100
Footpaths2.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
69out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
82out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Riantec has the 12th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,816 to 5,906 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Grand-Charmont (5.8 km per km²) to Lesparre-Médoc (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand-Charmont Doubs | 5.8 | 39% | 0% | 420 km |
| 2 | Chambourcy Yvelines | 4.7 | 37% | 0% | 133 km |
| 3 | Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 3.7 | 50% | 0.1% | 150 km |
| 4 | Boé Lot-et-Garonne | 3.2 | 2.6% | 4.3% | 135 km |
| 5 | Saintry-sur-Seine Essonne | 3.1 | 21% | 0% | 180 km |
| 6 | Oberhausbergen Bas-Rhin | 3.1 | 6.2% | 0% | 446 km |
| 7 | Sillingy Haute-Savoie | 3.1 | 21% | 0% | 267 km |
| 8 | Douvrin Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 8.1% | 0% | 67 km |
| 9 | Ludres Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.9 | 24% | 0% | 369 km |
| 10 | Seloncourt Doubs | 2.8 | 36% | 0% | 412 km |
| 11 | Saint-Zacharie Var | 2.7 | 42% | 100% | 22 km |
| 12 | Riantec Morbihan | 2.6 | 27% | 7% | On it |
| 13 | Villabé Essonne | 2.6 | 22% | 0% | 179 km |
| 14 | Annezin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 10% | 0% | 59 km |
| 15 | Raon-l'Étape Vosges | 2.4 | 69% | 2% | 421 km |
| 16 | Garéoult Var | 2.2 | 30% | 51% | 26 km |
| 17 | Saint-Pierre-d'Irube Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2 | 27% | 13% | 8.6 km |
| 18 | Eschau Bas-Rhin | 2 | 11% | 19% | 457 km |
| 19 | Ventabren Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.9 | 8% | 45% | 20 km |
| 20 | Dol-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 6.4 km |
| 21 | Arradon Morbihan | 1.8 | 16% | 100% | On it |
| 22 | Port-la-Nouvelle Aude | 1.6 | 5.2% | 82% | On it |
| 23 | Saint-André-de-la-Roche Alpes-Maritimes | 1.6 | 28% | 0% | 4.4 km |
| 24 | La Wantzenau Bas-Rhin | 1.5 | 27% | 41% | 449 km |
| 25 | Cessy Ain | 1.5 | 5.4% | 0.2% | 304 km |
| 26 | Gond-Pontouvre Charente | 1.4 | 15% | 16% | 77 km |
| 27 | Fontenilles Haute-Garonne | 1.4 | 13% | 0% | 163 km |
| 28 | Kembs Haut-Rhin | 1.1 | 50% | 63% | 431 km |
| 29 | Aixe-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 1 | 12% | 0% | 153 km |
| 30 | Roye Somme | 0.8 | 3.5% | 0% | 96 km |
| 31 | Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 0.3% | 100% | 27 km |
| 32 | Saint-Galmier Loire | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | 227 km |
| 33 | Bessan Hérault | 0.6 | 3.4% | 39% | 8.1 km |
| 34 | Le Poinçonnet Indre | 0.5 | 66% | 0% | 224 km |
| 35 | Briec Finistère | 0.5 | 6.1% | 0% | 14 km |
| 36 | Montmorillon Vienne | 0.4 | 11% | 28% | 152 km |
| 37 | Bricquebec-en-Cotentin Manche | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 13 km |
| 38 | Fismes Marne | 0.4 | 21% | 0% | 174 km |
| 39 | Montpon-Ménestérol Dordogne | 0.2 | 37% | 12% | 59 km |
| 40 | Rabastens Tarn | 0.2 | 4.3% | 0.1% | 139 km |
| 41 | Lesparre-Médoc Gironde | 0.1 | 58% | 100% | 11 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 Riantec
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.
Parc de Kerdurand
Park or garden
8.9 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Riantec
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
7% of Riantec 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
7% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Rade de Lorient
1.3 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area7%
Natura 2000 site7%
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.
7% of Riantec’s land is protected, more than in 68% 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
38 km of footpaths and 14 km of hiking routes cross Riantec
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
38 km
2.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
27%
about 3.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RiantecMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths2.6
Hiking routes1
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RiantecMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland27%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 69% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 72% 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 Riantec is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
11 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin des Douaniers, Concarneau - Le Magouëro15 km
Plouhinec - 211 km
Circuit de St Jean8.4 km
Merlevenez - 37.9 km
Chemin des Douaniers, Concarneau - Le Magouëro variante par Batobus5.2 km
Kervignac - 14.4 km
Circuit de Pen Mané4.2 km
Merlevenez - 23.7 km
Plouhinec - 6a3.5 km
Plouhinec - 53.1 km
Plouhinec - 6b1.6 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Riantec: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lorient-Lann Bihoue, 11 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 Riantec →
Neighbors
Next to Riantec
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
LocmiquélicPort-LouisLarmor-PlageLanesterMerlevenezPlouhinecRiantec
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riantec | 7% | 27% | 2.6 | On it |
| Locmiquélic 4,093 · 2.1 km | 19% | 7.2% | 3.3 | On it |
| Port-Louis 2,608 · 2.6 km | 0.1% | 1.6% | 9.2 | On it |
| Larmor-Plage 8,418 · 5.3 km | 0% | 17% | 5.3 | On it |
| Lanester 23,263 · 6.1 km | 0.1% | 13% | 5.2 | On it |
| Merlevenez 3,174 · 6.2 km | 5.7% | 33% | 0.6 | On it |
| Plouhinec 5,400 · 6.2 km | 32% | 24% | 2 | On it |
Locmiquélic and Plouhinec have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Riantec
Is Riantec in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 7% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Riantec?
OpenStreetMap maps 38 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 14 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Riantec is woodland?
27% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Riantec near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 0.5 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Riantec?
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.