First pick
Parc de la Bousselaie
Park or garden
4.6 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
1.7 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Papa-Yankee-Bzh · CC BY-SA 4.028%of the land protected
Outdoors in Rieux · protected areas, woods and footpaths
28% of Rieux’s land is protected for nature
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 17 km in Rieux. 56 km of footpaths cross Rieux (2 km per km²). 12% of Rieux is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
28%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
12%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
56 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 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: Parc de la Bousselaie
The sea
23 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 Rieux 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 areas28%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
82out of 100
Woodland12%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
47out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
58out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
67out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Rieux has the 7th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,831 to 2,886 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Courchelettes (4.3 km per km²) to La Boixe (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Courchelettes Nord | 4.3 | 6.5% | 0% | 91 km |
| 2 | Burbure Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.7% | 0% | 55 km |
| 3 | Le Pouzin Ardèche | 2.5 | 4.6% | 28% | 142 km |
| 4 | L'Aiguillon-la-Presqu'île Vendée | 2.3 | 7.9% | 100% | On it |
| 5 | Pérignat-lès-Sarliève Puy-de-Dôme | 2.2 | 3.7% | 4.6% | 251 km |
| 6 | Vitry-sur-Orne Moselle | 2.2 | 63% | 0% | 313 km |
| 7 | Rieux Morbihan | 2 | 12% | 28% | 23 km |
| 8 | Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets Ille-et-Vilaine | 2 | 5% | 85% | On it |
| 9 | Montbazin Hérault | 2 | 1.9% | 58% | 11 km |
| 10 | Sainghin-en-Mélantois Nord | 1.8 | 6.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 11 | Bar-sur-Seine Aube | 1.7 | 40% | 0% | 302 km |
| 12 | Anzin-Saint-Aubin Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 6.2% | 0% | 77 km |
| 13 | Saint-Jean-en-Royans Drôme | 1.7 | 60% | 100% | 177 km |
| 14 | Massieux Ain | 1.6 | 5.1% | 0% | 267 km |
| 15 | Argentat-sur-Dordogne Corrèze | 1.4 | 59% | 2.2% | 199 km |
| 16 | Fraize Vosges | 1.2 | 48% | 100% | 447 km |
| 17 | Saint-Jean-du-Falga Ariège | 1.2 | 3.1% | 2.2% | 117 km |
| 18 | Trélivan Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 18% | 100% | 9.5 km |
| 19 | Rozay-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 1.1% | 0.3% | 191 km |
| 20 | Toulenne Gironde | 1.1 | 8.9% | 7.5% | 56 km |
| 21 | Pont-d'Ain Ain | 1 | 22% | 18% | 291 km |
| 22 | L'Étrat Loire | 1 | 19% | 0% | 215 km |
| 23 | Colombier-Saugnieu Rhône | 1 | 2.7% | 0% | 252 km |
| 24 | Ambronay Ain | 1 | 28% | 1.3% | 286 km |
| 25 | Chavanay Loire | 0.8 | 21% | 99% | 213 km |
| 26 | Saint-Clément Yonne | 0.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 248 km |
| 27 | Noailles Oise | 0.8 | 46% | 0% | 101 km |
| 28 | Bourg-Argental Loire | 0.8 | 42% | 100% | 197 km |
| 29 | Étaules Charente-Maritime | 0.7 | 9.6% | 39% | On it |
| 30 | Langogne Lozère | 0.7 | 23% | 0.1% | 131 km |
| 31 | Fère-en-Tardenois Aisne | 0.7 | 40% | 0% | 171 km |
| 32 | Seiches-sur-le-Loir Maine-et-Loire | 0.6 | 31% | 0% | 137 km |
| 33 | Aoste Isère | 0.6 | 13% | 4.6% | 245 km |
| 34 | Margaux-Cantenac Gironde | 0.4 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 35 | Cour-Cheverny Loir-et-Cher | 0.4 | 41% | 29% | 229 km |
| 36 | Vendays-Montalivet Gironde | 0.3 | 74% | 100% | On it |
| 37 | Lafrançaise Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 19% | 0.8% | 175 km |
| 38 | Miremont Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 7.8% | 0.2% | 139 km |
| 39 | Thiviers Dordogne | 0.2 | 27% | 0.1% | 127 km |
| 40 | Précigné Sarthe | 0.1 | 23% | 0% | 123 km |
| 41 | La Boixe Charente | 0.1 | 10% | 23% | 78 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 Rieux
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Bousselaie leads, at 4.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Cirque des lises
Park or garden · 230 m outside the commune
1 ha0.2 km of path
2.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Rieux
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Marais de Vilaine
28% of the commune0.8 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area28%
Natura 2000 site28%
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.
28% of Rieux’s land is protected, more than in 82% 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
56 km of footpaths and 17 km of hiking routes cross Rieux
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
56 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
12%
about 3.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RieuxMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0.6
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RieuxMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland12%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 58% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 53% 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 Rieux is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 381.1 km
Du Mont-Saint-Michel à La Grande Brière - partie 826 km
GR 38 passes within 2 km of Rieux.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Rieux: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St-Jacut-Les-Pins, 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) | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 114 | 83 | 67 | 71 | 63 | 52 | 48 | 53 | 69 | 98 | 106 | 123 |
July is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 123 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. The climate in Rieux →
Neighbors
Next to Rieux
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
AllaireSaint-Nicolas-de-RedonRedonSaint-DolayBains-sur-OustSaint-Gildas-des-BoisRieux
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rieux | 28% | 12% | 2 | 23 km |
| Allaire 3,955 · 4.9 km | 6.3% | 17% | 1.2 | 22 km |
| Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon 3,311 · 5.5 km | 31% | 18% | 2.2 | 29 km |
| Redon 9,542 · 6 km | 32% | 10% | 3.8 | 28 km |
| Saint-Dolay 2,645 · 8.3 km | 14% | 18% | 0.5 | 17 km |
| Bains-sur-Oust 3,535 · 11 km | 6.9% | 17% | 1.2 | 32 km |
| Saint-Gildas-des-Bois 3,860 · 12 km | 3.5% | 12% | 0.3 | 25 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 Rieux
Is Rieux in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 28% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Rieux?
OpenStreetMap maps 56 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Rieux is woodland?
12% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Rieux near the sea?
No: the coast is 23 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Rieux?
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.