Photo: Deborah Tilley · CC BY-SA 2.0Aberporth is on the coast
The sea makes up 38% of the area within 5 km. The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park begins 5.8 mi from the village’s edge. 6 km of footpaths run through the village and the kilometre around it, 0.8 for every square kilometre. Aberporth grades D for the outdoors. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
What kind of outdoors village is Aberporth?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Aberporth’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Aberporth grades D for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Aberporth, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
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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.
Aberporth is 53rd 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.
Aberporth falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 52 of the 59 others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giggleswick North Yorkshire | A+ | 14.2 | 100% | 4.1 | 75% |
| 2 | Lympne Kent | A+ | 4 | 100% | 2.7 | 34% |
| 3 | Frampton on Severn Gloucestershire | A+ | 11 | 100% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 4 | Bromham Wiltshire | A+ | 5.8 | 100% | 3.3 | 13% |
| 5 | Colney Heath Hertfordshire | A | 8.7 | 100% | 7.4 | 0% |
| 6 | Alston Cumbria | A | 5.8 | 100% | 2.1 | 100% |
| 7 | Heather Leicestershire | A | 16.9 | 100% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 8 | Blockley Gloucestershire | A | 2.9 | 100% | 2.5 | 86% |
| 9 | Silverdale Lancashire | A | 2.3 | 46% | 3.9 | 76% |
| 10 | North Curry Somerset | A | 6.2 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 11 | Furness Vale Derbyshire | A− | 2 | 78% | 5 | 36% |
| 12 | Old Langho Lancashire | A− | 7.6 | 73% | 2.9 | 20% |
| 13 | Plumpton Green East Sussex | A− | 4.6 | 54% | 3.6 | 37% |
| 14 | Winford Isle of Wight | A− | 1.7 | 0% | 4.4 | 39% |
| 15 | Cwmgwrach West Glamorgan | B+ | 3.2 | 100% | 1.7 | 6% |
| 16 | Calver Derbyshire | B+ | 2.2 | 44% | 4.8 | 99% |
| 17 | North Thoresby Lincolnshire | B+ | 3.7 | 100% | 0.8 | 21% |
| 18 | Bethel Gwynedd | B+ | 1.6 | 100% | 1.4 | 10% |
| 19 | Groombridge East Sussex | B+ | 2.3 | 77% | 2.8 | 92% |
| 20 | Blackfordby Leicestershire | B+ | 3.5 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 21 | Five Ash Down East Sussex | B+ | 2.8 | 0% | 4.1 | 43% |
| 22 | Upperthong West Yorkshire | B | 1.7 | 65% | 4.7 | 26% |
| 23 | Fishtoft Lincolnshire | B | 2.3 | 100% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 24 | Holt Clwyd | B | 0.9 | 100% | 5.1 | 0% |
| 25 | Milborne St Andrew Dorset | B | 3.3 | 71% | 2.1 | 33% |
| 26 | Pentre Halkyn Clwyd | B | 1.3 | 59% | 3.6 | 3% |
| 27 | Nanpean Cornwall | B | 4.4 | 100% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 28 | Sharnford Leicestershire | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Challock Kent | B− | 3 | 62% | 2 | 88% |
| 30 | Tackley Oxfordshire | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 31 | Twyning Gloucestershire | B− | 1 | 100% | 2.5 | 10% |
| 32 | Ettington Warwickshire | B− | 3.3 | 100% | 1.6 | 0% |
| 33 | South Wingfield Derbyshire | B− | 5.4 | 75% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 34 | Coopersale Essex | B− | 1.1 | 100% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 35 | Beeford East Riding of Yorkshire | C+ | 3.9 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 36 | Carleton-in-Craven North Yorkshire | C+ | 0.4 | 100% | 2.3 | 10% |
| 37 | Chillington Devon | C+ | 0.6 | 78% | 1.3 | 55% |
| 38 | Milford Derbyshire | C+ | 1.4 | 100% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 39 | Draycott Somerset | C+ | 2.1 | 68% | 2.1 | 46% |
| 40 | Sutterton Lincolnshire | C+ | 2.8 | 100% | 0.4 | 0% |
| 41 | Upper Basildon Berkshire | C+ | 2.3 | 0% | 2 | 97% |
| 42 | Lower Shiplake Oxfordshire | C+ | 3 | 0% | 2 | 28% |
| 43 | Woodhouses Greater Manchester | C | 2.6 | 40% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 44 | Charlton Marshall Dorset | C | 0.5 | 78% | 2 | 50% |
| 45 | Glazebury Cheshire | C− | 5.1 | 58% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 46 | Pattishall and Astcote Northamptonshire | C− | 2.9 | 39% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 47 | Stebbing Essex | C− | 2.4 | 70% | 2 | 0% |
| 48 | North Leverton with Habblesthorpe Nottinghamshire | C− | 0.5 | 100% | 1.4 | 0% |
| 49 | Tolleshunt Knights Essex | C− | 3.4 | 41% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 50 | Gorefield Cambridgeshire | D | 2.9 | 67% | 0.5 | 0% |
| 51 | Crundale Dyfed | D | 1.5 | 57% | 0.5 | 5% |
| 52 | Napton on the Hill Warwickshire | D | 0.4 | 69% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Aberporth Dyfed | D | 0.6 | 38% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 54 | Wisbech St Mary Cambridgeshire | D | 1.8 | 69% | 0.2 | 0% |
| 55 | Hockliffe Bedfordshire | D− | 1.2 | 49% | 1.8 | 0% |
| 56 | Berryfield Wiltshire | D− | 0.4 | 53% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 57 | South Hykeham Lincolnshire | D− | 0.2 | 0% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Pencader Dyfed | D− | 1.2 | 30% | 0.1 | 0% |
| 59 | Netheravon Wiltshire | D− | 0.4 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Leeming Bar North Yorkshire | D− | 0.7 | 0% | 0.9 | 0% |
Parks, footpaths & countryside
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4 in 10 Aberporth 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).
About 700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 3 playgrounds are mapped in and around the village, about one for every 358 residents.
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park is 5.8 mi away
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.
Pembrokeshire Coast
Protected landscape begins just outside the 5 km ring the Outdoors Grade measures, so Aberporth scores 0% on it even though the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park is 5.8 mi away. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Aberporth
6 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Aberporth and the kilometre around it, 0.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the village.
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.
The best walking months in Aberporth: 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 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 105 | 101 | 83 | 72 | 76 | 78 | 87 | 100 | 91 | 143 | 155 | 145 |
April is the driest month (72 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 155 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 17 nights a year. The climate in Aberporth →
The coast and beaches near Aberporth
38% of the area within 5 km of Aberporth is sea. 7 beaches are mapped within 5 km.
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.
3 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
Waterfalls 1
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 3
Campsites 1
Plus 1 campsite without a name on the map.
The outdoors in nearby towns
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberporth | D | 0.6 | 38% | 0% |
| Cardigan 5.8 mi | B− | 1.9 | 69% | 13% |
| St Dogmaels 6.9 mi | C+ | 1.4 | 71% | 23% |
| Newcastle Emlyn 7.3 mi | B− | 5.9 | 100% | 0% |
| New Quay 9.7 mi | D | 1.2 | 30% | 0% |
| Llandysul 11.7 mi | C− | 5.2 | 47% | 0% |
Newcastle Emlyn, 7.3 miles away, grades B−, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park. Cardigan, St Dogmaels and Newcastle Emlyn have at least twice Aberporth’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Aberporth
Is Aberporth near a National Park?
Yes. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park begins 5.8 mi west of the village’s edge. It covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
What are the best walks near Aberporth?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the village, including the Ceredigion Coast Path.
How many people in Aberporth live near a park?
38% 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 Aberporth?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Aberporth good for walking?
Paths are thinner than most towns: 0.8 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 4% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 6% (0.6 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 Aberporth’s overall grade.
Where Aberporth’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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