Aberaeron’s biggest
Parc-y-fro
Park or garden
1.2 ha (3 acres)0.3 km of path
2 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Aberaeron
River Walk
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Bill Boaden · CC BY-SA 2.0AOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Aberaeron · parks, paths & countryside
Aberaeron is on the coast
The sea makes up 46% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in Aberaeron add up to 6.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. 19 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 2.1 for every square kilometre. Aberaeron grades A for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
6.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
19 km
2.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
0%
of the land within 5 km
The sea
46%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors village is Aberaeron?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast46% of the area within 5 km is sea; 7 beaches mapped.Room to roam6.1 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 90% of UK towns.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.
Aberaeron’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by plenty of park space.
Outdoors grade
Aberaeron grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Aberaeron, 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 92% of UK towns9th of 60 UK villages its size
Public green space6.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
91out of
100
100
A park within a walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
89out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape0%of the land within 5 km · None within 5 km
31out of
100
100
Footpaths2.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
33out of
100
100
The sea46%of the area within 5 km
98out 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.
Villages its size
Aberaeron is 9th of 60 UK villages its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 1,000 to 1,100 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
Aberaeron2.1
Villages its size2.0
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Aberaeron6.1
Villages its size2.3
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Aberaeron100%
Villages its size73%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against villages its size, Aberaeron stands out most for park space per resident: only 6 of the other 59 have more.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grove Dorset | A+ | 6 | 100% | 8.7 | 0% |
| 2 | Lizard Cornwall | A+ | 2.3 | 100% | 3.3 | 30% |
| 3 | Uplyme Devon | A+ | 2.4 | 100% | 3 | 61% |
| 4 | Winchelsea Beach East Sussex | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 1.9 | 45% |
| 5 | East Challow Oxfordshire | A+ | 4.9 | 100% | 3.6 | 44% |
| 6 | Abingworth West Sussex | A | 6.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 27% |
| 7 | Newnham Gloucestershire | A | 4.2 | 100% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 8 | Bellingham Northumberland | A | 8.6 | 100% | 1.8 | 57% |
| 9 | Aberaeron Dyfed | A | 6.1 | 100% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 10 | Shorne Kent | A | 28.3 | 23% | 3.4 | 24% |
| 11 | Misterton Somerset | A | 2.5 | 100% | 2.9 | 35% |
| 12 | Godshill Isle of Wight | A | 2.1 | 100% | 2.7 | 53% |
| 13 | Chedgrave Norfolk | A− | 3 | 100% | 1.7 | 26% |
| 14 | Ardleigh Essex | A− | 3.2 | 100% | 1.5 | 21% |
| 15 | Hyde Heath Buckinghamshire | B+ | 5.4 | 68% | 2.1 | 81% |
| 16 | Llangynidr Powys | B+ | 2.4 | 65% | 3.2 | 100% |
| 17 | Crowlas Cornwall | B+ | 3.3 | 73% | 1.1 | 23% |
| 18 | Loddiswell Devon | B+ | 2.1 | 100% | 1.3 | 53% |
| 19 | Thornwood Common Essex | B+ | 6.1 | 100% | 1.9 | 0% |
| 20 | Clyst Honiton Devon | B+ | 8 | 83% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 21 | Avening Gloucestershire | B | 0.9 | 100% | 2.3 | 97% |
| 22 | Morchard Bishop Devon | B | 2.6 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 23 | Thornton Leicestershire | B | 13.7 | 50% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 24 | Flamstead Hertfordshire | B | 2.1 | 82% | 2.7 | 33% |
| 25 | Llanymynech Shropshire | B | 2 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 26 | Minley Hampshire | B− | 5.7 | 0% | 6.5 | 0% |
| 27 | High Shincliffe County Durham | B− | 0.5 | 100% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 28 | King's Bromley Staffordshire | B− | 3.4 | 100% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 29 | Derry Hill and Studley Wiltshire | C+ | 1.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 1% |
| 30 | St Newlyn East Cornwall | C+ | 3 | 100% | 0.7 | 0% |
| 31 | Little Waltham Essex | C+ | 2.3 | 63% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 32 | Simister Greater Manchester | C | 16.6 | 0% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 33 | Warmington Northamptonshire | C | 1.6 | 100% | 2 | 0% |
| 34 | Little Melton Norfolk | C | 4.2 | 72% | 2 | 0% |
| 35 | Hilton Cambridgeshire | C | 6.8 | 70% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 36 | Upper Bucklebury Berkshire | C | 0.1 | 0% | 4 | 48% |
| 37 | Elswick Lancashire | C | 1.8 | 100% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 38 | Freethorpe Norfolk | C− | 2.3 | 26% | 0.7 | 61% |
| 39 | Ansley Warwickshire | C− | 1.8 | 64% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 40 | Ewyas Harold Herefordshire | C− | 2.1 | 55% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 41 | Hoylandswaine South Yorkshire | C− | 1.4 | 60% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 42 | Marchwiel Clwyd | C− | 1.1 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
| 43 | Castle Hedingham Essex | C− | 1.7 | 52% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 44 | Swarthmoor Cumbria | C− | 0.2 | 79% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 45 | Surfleet Lincolnshire | C− | 4.2 | 0% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 46 | Scole Norfolk | C− | 2.1 | 51% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 47 | Loxwood West Sussex | D | 0 | 0% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 48 | New Quay Dyfed | D | 1.2 | 30% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 49 | Sutton St James Lincolnshire | D | 0.1 | 100% | 0.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Skidby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 2.8 | 56% | 0.9 | 0% |
| 51 | Snitterfield Warwickshire | D | 2.4 | 63% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 52 | Northop Clwyd | D | 1.6 | 70% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 53 | Hevingham Norfolk | D | 1.8 | 0% | 2 | 0% |
| 54 | Waltham on the Wolds Leicestershire | D | 2 | 23% | 1.7 | 0% |
| 55 | Horsham St Faith Norfolk | D | 0.9 | 52% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 56 | Henham Essex | D | 0 | 0% | 3 | 0% |
| 57 | Sutton Norfolk | D− | 0 | 0% | 1 | 29% |
| 58 | Methwold Norfolk | D− | 1.8 | 61% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 59 | Wainfleet St Mary Lincolnshire | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 60 | Ranby Nottinghamshire | D− | 0 | 0% | 0.8 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Aberaeron’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 Aberaeron
The biggest is Parc-y-fro, 1.2 ha (3 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
Everyone in Aberaeron lives 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 (100%)Further (0%)
Aberaeron100%
Villages its size73%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 4 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 260 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Aberaeron
19 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Aberaeron and the kilometre around it, 2.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
Regional
Ceredigion Coast Path6.6 km
The regional route here is the Ceredigion Coast 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 Aberaeron: May to September
The village’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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 127 | 92 | 76 | 74 | 63 | 81 | 86 | 69 | 79 | 130 | 120 | 139 |
May is the driest month (63 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 139 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 24 nights a year. The climate in Aberaeron →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Aberaeron
46% of the area within 5 km of Aberaeron is sea. 7 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 the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
Things to do
4 playgrounds
Mapped within 2 km of the village in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK village its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 1
Cefn-Wig0.9 mi from town
DirectionsWaterfalls 1
Sun Valley0.9 mi from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 4
Glan Y Môr Play Areain town
DirectionsParc y Fro Playgroundin town
DirectionsAberarth Play Area1.1 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 1 playground without a name on the map.
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
New QuayLampeterAberaeron
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Aberaeron grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Aberaeron
What is the biggest park in Aberaeron?
Parc-y-fro, 1.2 ha (3 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the village or within 400 m of it.
Is Aberaeron near a National Park?
No National Park or National Landscape is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Aberaeron.
What are the best walks near Aberaeron?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Ceredigion Coast Path.
How many people in Aberaeron live near a park?
100% 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 Aberaeron?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Aberaeron good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 2.1 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 33% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 91% (6.1 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 Aberaeron’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Aberaeron’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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.