First pick
Belvédère de la Grée
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.2 km of path
1 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Elke Wetzig ( User:Elya ) · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Sarzeau · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Sarzeau lies inside Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park
100% of Sarzeau’s land lies in protected areas. Sarzeau has 103 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 118 km across Sarzeau (2 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
13%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
118 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
103 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: Belvédère de la Grée
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 1.5 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 Sarzeau?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On waymarked routes103 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 1.5 km from its center.
What sets Sarzeau apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Sarzeau 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
93out of 100
Woodland13%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
48out 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
Sarzeau has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,060 to 9,386 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 Valréas (0.1 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 | Capbreton Landes | 5.9 | 58% | 11% | On it |
| 4 | La Ravoire Savoie | 5.3 | 14% | 0% | 231 km |
| 5 | Le Crès Hérault | 5.2 | 9.9% | 0% | 12 km |
| 6 | Poisy Haute-Savoie | 5 | 33% | 0% | 263 km |
| 7 | Bougival Yvelines | 4.8 | 20% | 0% | 140 km |
| 8 | Évian-les-Bains Haute-Savoie | 4.8 | 11% | 0% | 299 km |
| 9 | Ouistreham Calvados | 4.6 | 3.8% | 8.5% | On it |
| 10 | Jarville-la-Malgrange Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 369 km |
| 11 | Tomblaine Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.3 | 2.9% | 0% | 368 km |
| 12 | Magny-les-Hameaux Yvelines | 4.1 | 29% | 100% | 149 km |
| 13 | Vert-Saint-Denis Seine-et-Marne | 3.9 | 23% | 0% | 187 km |
| 14 | Condé-sur-l'Escaut Nord | 3.5 | 44% | 99% | 98 km |
| 15 | Fontaine-lès-Dijon Côte-d'Or | 3.4 | 2.6% | 0% | 400 km |
| 16 | Liffré Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 61% | 20% | 45 km |
| 17 | Rombas Moselle | 3.3 | 53% | 0% | 314 km |
| 18 | Le Passage Lot-et-Garonne | 3.2 | 7.8% | 9% | 131 km |
| 19 | Hagondange Moselle | 3.1 | 11% | 0% | 317 km |
| 20 | Prévessin-Moëns Ain | 2.9 | 17% | 0% | 297 km |
| 21 | Mont-Saint-Martin Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.9 | 18% | 0% | 274 km |
| 22 | Chécy Loiret | 2.9 | 18% | 9.7% | 210 km |
| 23 | Breuillet Essonne | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 164 km |
| 24 | Dardilly Rhône | 2.8 | 20% | 0% | 256 km |
| 25 | Launaguet Haute-Garonne | 2.7 | 7.2% | 0% | 149 km |
| 26 | Lamorlaye Oise | 2.5 | 42% | 100% | 125 km |
| 27 | Molsheim Bas-Rhin | 2.5 | 8.8% | 0% | 441 km |
| 28 | Beuvry Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 14% | 0% | 61 km |
| 29 | Sarzeau Morbihan | 2 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 30 | Les Sorinières Loire-Atlantique | 2 | 9.8% | 0% | 37 km |
| 31 | Scionzier Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 56% | 9.8% | 264 km |
| 32 | Chaponost Rhône | 1.5 | 12% | 0% | 245 km |
| 33 | Paray-le-Monial Saône-et-Loire | 1.3 | 20% | 0% | 321 km |
| 34 | Varennes-Vauzelles Nièvre | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 336 km |
| 35 | Nogent-le-Rotrou Eure-et-Loir | 0.8 | 7.9% | 100% | 127 km |
| 36 | Livron-sur-Drôme Drôme | 0.8 | 11% | 4.3% | 147 km |
| 37 | Ussel Corrèze | 0.7 | 38% | 0.1% | 235 km |
| 38 | Le Teich Gironde | 0.6 | 81% | 100% | On it |
| 39 | Rivesaltes Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 13 km |
| 40 | Grenade Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 9.5% | 14% | 165 km |
| 41 | Valréas Vaucluse | 0.1 | 21% | 0% | 104 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 Sarzeau
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Belvédère de la Grée leads, at 0.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin Lesage
Park or garden
0.2 ha0.2 km of path
0.7 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
Protected land in and around Sarzeau
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Rivière de Penerf, marais de Suscinio
12% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Golfe du Morbihan, côte ouest de Rhuys
10% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Rivière de Pénerf
7% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Golfe du Morbihan
1.6 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Chiroptères du Morbihan
4.6 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site22%
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.
100% of Sarzeau’s land is protected, more than in 93% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Morbihan has 4.4%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
118 km of footpaths and 103 km of hiking routes cross Sarzeau
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
118 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
103 km
waymarked: 1.7 km per km²
Woodland
13%
about 7.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SarzeauMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes1.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SarzeauMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland13%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 57% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 52% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 96% of Sarzeau’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
26 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Regards sur le Golfe43 km
Chemin des Douaniers, Noyalo - Port-Navalo36 km
Vue sur l'océan31 km
Chemin des Douaniers, Port-Navalo - Le Tour-du-Parc26 km
Regards sur le Golfe – Variante par la Pointe de l’Ours23 km
Vue sur l’océan – Variante par Saint-Jacques Suscinio22 km
Entre Terre et Mer14 km
Regards sur le Golfe – Variante par le Duer14 km
Chemin des Douaniers, variante à vérifier11 km
Regards sur le Golfe – Variante par le Ruaud11 km
Vue sur l’océan – Variante par la boucle de Penvins9.7 km
Du Golfe à l'Océan9.5 km
+14 more
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Sarzeau: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Sarzeau Sa, 2.9 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 | 15.9 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.2 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 79 | 65 | 56 | 55 | 47 | 41 | 42 | 47 | 47 | 81 | 89 | 93 |
June is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 93 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 16 nights a year. The climate in Sarzeau →
Neighbors
Next to Sarzeau
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
SurzurSénéArradonTheix-NoyaloBadenVannesSarzeau
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 Sarzeau
Is Sarzeau in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Sarzeau lies in Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Sarzeau?
OpenStreetMap maps 118 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 103 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Sarzeau is woodland?
13% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Sarzeau near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 1.5 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Sarzeau?
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.