Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: John Ferguson · CC BY-SA 2.0The sea makes up 43% of the area within 5 km. The Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park begins 0.7 mi from the town’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Dunoon add up to 0.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical town in England and Wales has 2.1. Dunoon has no Outdoors Grade: Scottish towns aren’t graded on the outdoors yet.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Dunoon’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park close by.
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Dunoon’s locality.
The biggest is Castle Gardens, 2.4 ha (6 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Each square is 1 in 100 residents: green lives within 400 m of a public park, garden or playing field (NRS Census 2022 output areas against OS Open Greenspace).
About 2,100 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 6 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 1,330 residents.
Protected landscapes within 30 km, by direction and distance from the edge of the locality; circle size shows each one’s area. National Scenic Areas are Scotland’s finest landscapes, chosen by NatureScot.
9% of the land within 5 km of Dunoon is National Park or National Scenic Area. Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park covers 1,861 km² and has been a National Park since 2002.
30 km of footpaths, tracks and core paths are mapped in Dunoon and the kilometre around it, 1.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical town in England and Wales has 3.0).
No named walking route is mapped within 2 km of Dunoon; its footpaths are on the map above.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Scotland has no rights-of-way register: everyone has a right of responsible access to most land, so tracks and councils’ core paths count. Paths are only as complete as the map in each area.
Historic Environment Scotland’s Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Dunoon’s named parks.
2.4 ha. 6 listed structures and monuments stand inside it or at its edge, including Dunoon Castle (a scheduled monument).
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic Environment Scotland designations.
The town’s 1991–2020 averages (Met Office HadUK-Grid) and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have 12½+ hours of daylight, highs of 15 °C or more and little rain for the town.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 7.6 | 9.5 | 11.6 | 14.1 | 16.3 | 17.6 | 17.0 | 15.1 | 12.6 | 10.3 | 8.1 | 7.0 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 270 | 228 | 204 | 145 | 129 | 137 | 156 | 184 | 183 | 259 | 269 | 286 |
May is the driest month (129 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 17 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 286 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 35 nights a year. The climate in Dunoon →
43% of the area within 5 km of Dunoon is sea. 3 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 0 with a name.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by SEPA; check it before swimming.
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
Plus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Plus 1 peak without a name on the map.
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Plus 1 slipway without a name on the map.
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunoon | – | 0.7 | 74% | 9% |
| Gourock 3.8 mi | – | 2.5 | 78% | 0% |
| Inverkip 4.1 mi | – | 0.3 | 3% | 0% |
| Greenock 5.9 mi | – | 1.5 | 77% | 0% |
| Helensburgh 8.5 mi | – | 1.0 | 72% | 24% |
| Rothesay 9.6 mi | – | 3.8 | 82% | 0% |
| Port Glasgow 10.0 mi | – | 2.9 | 72% | 0% |
Gourock, Greenock and Rothesay have at least twice Dunoon’s green space per resident.
Castle Gardens, 2.4 ha (6 acres), with 1.1 km of path. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Yes. Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park begins 0.7 mi north-east of the town’s edge. It covers 1,861 km² and has been a National Park since 2002.
74% of residents live within 400 m, about a 5-minute walk, of a public park, garden or playing field (NRS Census 2022 output areas against OS Open Greenspace). The typical town in England and Wales is 83%.
June to August: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
From five measures, each placed among UK towns of 1,000 or more: public green space per resident, the share living near a park, National Park or National Scenic Area within 5 km, footpaths per square kilometre, and the sea within 5 km. It is a character grade and isn’t part of Dunoon’s overall grade.
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