Conwy’s biggest
Bodlondeb
Playing field
3.2 ha (8 acres)0.3 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.7 mi south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0A+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Conwy · parks, paths & countryside
Conwy is on the coast, on the Wales Coast Path
The sea makes up 34% of the area within 5 km. Snowdonia National Park reaches the edge of Conwy. Footpaths add up to 103 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 3.6 for every square kilometre. Conwy grades A+ for the outdoors: #3 of 39 in Clwyd. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
82%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
103 km
3.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
13%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Snowdonia National Park
The sea
34%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Conwy?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast34% of the area within 5 km is sea; 18 beaches mapped.Hills with a view6 mapped viewpoints, about 6× as many per resident as the typical town its size.Countryside close bySnowdonia National Park starts 0.0 mi west.On a National TrailThe Wales Coast Path passes through.
Conwy’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by its views.
Outdoors grade
Conwy grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Conwy, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A+
Better than 95% of UK towns#3 of 39 in Clwyd · 2nd of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
68out of
100
100
A park within a walk82%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
51out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape13%of the land within 5 km
73out of
100
100
Footpaths3.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
73out of
100
100
The sea34%of the area within 5 km
93out of
100
100
Graded, never part of the overall grade (like History and Civic life). It measures what is mapped: OS Open Greenspace leaves out woodland and open-access land that isn’t a park, and OpenStreetMap’s rural paths are more complete in some places than others.
Towns its size
Conwy is 2nd of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 14,800 to 16,600 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Outdoors score: the share of UK towns each one beats
Footpath, km per km²
Conwy3.6
Towns its size3.4
Clwyd towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Conwy2.9
Towns its size2.4
Clwyd towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Conwy82%
Towns its size87%
Clwyd towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Conwy stands out most for park space per resident: only 20 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saltash Cornwall | A+ | 2.4 | 96% | 3.6 | 44% |
| 2 | Conwy Clwyd | A+ | 2.9 | 82% | 3.6 | 13% |
| 3 | Swanscombe Kent | A+ | 3.3 | 90% | 8.5 | 0% |
| 4 | Kesgrave Suffolk | A | 3.3 | 97% | 4.7 | 14% |
| 5 | Petersfield Hampshire | A | 3.2 | 93% | 3.2 | 100% |
| 6 | Hadfield Derbyshire | A | 2.4 | 91% | 4.5 | 36% |
| 7 | Bishop's Cleeve Gloucestershire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 3.9 | 35% |
| 8 | Bedlington Northumberland | A | 5.1 | 94% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Staveley Derbyshire | A | 6.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 10 | Penzance Cornwall | A | 1.6 | 96% | 2.3 | 34% |
| 11 | Lewes East Sussex | A | 1.9 | 83% | 4.6 | 75% |
| 12 | Stapleford Nottinghamshire | A | 3.5 | 95% | 5.9 | 0% |
| 13 | Skipton North Yorkshire | A | 1.7 | 99% | 4.2 | 25% |
| 14 | Kidsgrove Staffordshire | A− | 8.6 | 87% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 15 | Porthcawl Mid Glamorgan | A− | 3.5 | 82% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 16 | Frimley Surrey | A− | 2.9 | 99% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 17 | Hessle East Riding of Yorkshire | A− | 5.3 | 96% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 18 | Risca Gwent | A− | 6.9 | 94% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 19 | Worcester Park and Stoneleigh Surrey | B+ | 7.3 | 76% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 20 | South Woodham Ferrers Essex | B+ | 7.8 | 93% | 3 | 0% |
| 21 | Uckfield East Sussex | B+ | 2.9 | 47% | 4.9 | 22% |
| 22 | Neston Cheshire | B+ | 2.7 | 91% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 23 | Peacehaven East Sussex | B+ | 1.1 | 51% | 3.6 | 44% |
| 24 | Somercotes and Swanwick Derbyshire | B+ | 3.6 | 95% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Weybridge Surrey | B+ | 3.9 | 80% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 26 | Burnham-on-Sea Somerset | B+ | 2.1 | 79% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Newport Pagnell Buckinghamshire | B+ | 2.6 | 95% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 28 | Whickham Tyne and Wear | B+ | 3.9 | 77% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 29 | Swinton South Yorkshire | B+ | 3 | 97% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 30 | Brackley Northamptonshire | B | 2.7 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 31 | Tyldesley Greater Manchester | B | 2.3 | 97% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 32 | Haydock Merseyside | B | 6.8 | 86% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 33 | Crowthorne Berkshire | B | 4.7 | 60% | 5.2 | 0% |
| 34 | Westbury Wiltshire | B | 1.4 | 97% | 3.3 | 1% |
| 35 | Patchway Gloucestershire | B | 2.5 | 80% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 36 | Haslingden Lancashire | B | 1.8 | 89% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 37 | Wymondham Norfolk | B | 2.8 | 97% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 38 | Redruth Cornwall | B− | 1.5 | 78% | 3.7 | 3% |
| 39 | Hoyland South Yorkshire | B− | 2.7 | 67% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 40 | Knaresborough North Yorkshire | B− | 2.3 | 87% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 41 | Mexborough South Yorkshire | B− | 2 | 97% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 42 | Teignmouth Devon | B− | 1.7 | 82% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 43 | East Ardsley West Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 91% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 44 | South Normanton and Pinxton Derbyshire | C+ | 1.7 | 90% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 45 | Elland West Yorkshire | C+ | 2 | 69% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 46 | Herne Kent | C+ | 1.2 | 54% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne Gloucestershire | C+ | 2.2 | 78% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 48 | Darton South Yorkshire | C+ | 2.5 | 86% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 49 | South Hayling Hampshire | C+ | 1 | 65% | 1.4 | 26% |
| 50 | Aldridge West Midlands | C+ | 3 | 83% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 51 | Hockley and Hawkwell Essex | C+ | 1.6 | 85% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 52 | Garforth West Yorkshire | C | 1.2 | 88% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 53 | Longfield, New Ash Green and Hartley Kent | C | 1.2 | 54% | 3.3 | 21% |
| 54 | Ashby-de-la-Zouch Leicestershire | C | 1.1 | 90% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Nailsea Somerset | C | 1.1 | 65% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 56 | Alsager Cheshire | C | 1.2 | 82% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 57 | Maltby South Yorkshire | C− | 1.8 | 78% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 58 | Swallownest and Aston South Yorkshire | C− | 1.2 | 73% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 59 | Taverham and Drayton Norfolk | C− | 1.9 | 67% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 60 | Carmarthen Dyfed | D | 1.6 | 76% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Conwy’s built-up area.
Green space: parks, gardens, playing fields and play spaces, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · Contains OS data © Crown copyright · Natural England / NRW
Places to walk
Parks to walk in, in and around Conwy
The biggest is Bodlondeb, 3.2 ha (8 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
8 in 10 Conwy residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Each square is 1 in 100 residents: green lives within 400 m of a public park, garden or playing field (Census 2021 output areas against OS Open Greenspace).
Within 400 m (82%)Further (18%)
Conwy82%
Towns its size87%
Clwyd towns83%
All UK towns83%
About 2,900 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 40 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 393 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Conwy
Protected landscapes within 30 km, by direction and distance from the edge of the built-up area; circle size shows each one’s area. National Landscapes were called Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty until 2023.
National ParkNational LandscapeThe 5 km the grade counts
National Park
Snowdonia
At the edge west2,140 km²since 195113% of the land within 5 km
National Landscape
Ynys Mon/anglesey
6.8 mi west219 km²since 1967
National Landscape
Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley
15 mi east389 km²since 2011
13% of the land within 5 km of Conwy is National Park or National Landscape, more than 72% of UK towns. Snowdonia National Park covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Conwy is on the Wales Coast Path
103 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Conwy and the kilometre around it, 3.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
NationalRegional
Wales Coast Path (North Wales) main route15.0 km
North Wales Path14.3 km
Cambrian Way4.9 km
Conwy Mountain alternative4.2 km
The Wales Coast Path, a national route, passes Conwy. The regional route here is the North Wales Path.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
When to get out
The best walking months in Conwy: May to September
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) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 84 | 68 | 61 | 51 | 59 | 57 | 56 | 68 | 78 | 109 | 102 | 118 |
April is the driest month (51 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 21 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 118 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 15 nights a year. The climate in Conwy →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Conwy
34% of the area within 5 km of Conwy is sea. 18 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 4 with a name.
Conwy Sands0.4 mi from town
DirectionsNorth Shore Beach1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPorth Dyniewaid2.1 mi from town
DirectionsThe Wales Coast Path passes the town.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
Things to do
6 viewpoints and 40 playgrounds
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK town its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
6Viewpoints6× towns its size12Hills and peaks3Nature reserves2.9× towns its size40Playgrounds1.6× towns its size2Campsites2Slipways
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 6
Plus 6 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 12
Bodlondeb Wood49 m (161 ft) · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsCastell Deganwy107 m (351 ft) · 0.1 mi from town
DirectionsBryn Maelgwyn100 m (328 ft) · 0.2 mi from town
DirectionsMynydd y Dref247 m (810 ft) · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsBryniau88 m (289 ft) · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsBryn-mawr142 m (466 ft) · 0.3 mi from town
DirectionsCoed Gaer127 m (417 ft) · 0.4 mi from town
DirectionsBryn Pydew120 m (394 ft) · 0.5 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 4 hills and peaks more.
Nature reserves 3
Coedwig Bodlondeb9.0 ha · 0.0 mi from town
DirectionsRSPB Conwy38 ha · 0.2 mi from town
DirectionsBryn Pydew6.4 ha · 1.2 mi from town
DirectionsNext door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
Llansanffraid Glan ConwyLlandudnoPenrhyn BayDwygyfylchiColwyn BayPenmaenmawrConwy
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conwy | A+ | 2.9 | 82% | 13% |
| Llansanffraid Glan Conwy 1.9 mi | A+ | 10.8 | 100% | 8% |
| Llandudno 2.0 mi | A+ | 2.1 | 83% | 3% |
| Penrhyn Bay 2.6 mi | B− | 0.6 | 68% | 0% |
| Dwygyfylchi 3.3 mi | A+ | 3.2 | 83% | 28% |
| Colwyn Bay 3.8 mi | B+ | 1.9 | 77% | 0% |
| Penmaenmawr 4.6 mi | A | 1.7 | 78% | 39% |
Dwygyfylchi, 3.3 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: 83% of its residents live within 400 m of a park. Llansanffraid Glan Conwy has at least twice Conwy’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Conwy
What is the biggest park in Conwy?
Bodlondeb, 3.2 ha (8 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Conwy near a National Park?
It covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Conwy?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Wales Coast Path (North Wales) main route, North Wales Path and Cambrian Way.
How many people in Conwy live near a park?
82% of residents live within 400 m, about a 5-minute walk, of a public park, garden or playing field (Census 2021 output areas against OS Open Greenspace). The typical UK town is 83%.
When is the best time of year for walking in Conwy?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Conwy good for walking?
For paths, yes: 3.6 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 73% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 68% (2.9 ha per 1,000 residents).
How is the Outdoors Grade worked out?
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 Landscape within 5 km, footpaths per square kilometre, and the sea within 5 km. It is a character grade and isn’t part of Conwy’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Conwy’s outdoors figures come from
- Parks and green space: Ordnance Survey OS Open Greenspace (parks and gardens, playing fields, play spaces, and their access points). Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- National Parks and National Landscapes: Natural England and Natural Resources Wales boundaries, areas and designation dates, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Footpaths, walking routes, beaches and things to do: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License (ODbL), via Geofabrik, 16 October 2026.
- Historic parks, listed buildings and monuments: Historic England, National Heritage List for England, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rain and temperature: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for the town; daylight calculated from its latitude.
- The sea: ONS Countries (December 2024) boundaries clipped to mean high water. Residents near a park: ONS Census 2021 output areas.
- Grade: TownRatings’ Outdoors Grade, ranked against UK towns only.
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