Tenby’s biggest
Battery Gardens
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)0.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Tenby
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: welshbabe · CC BY-SA 2.0AOutdoors Grade
Outdoors in Tenby · parks, paths & countryside
Tenby is inside the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
The sea makes up 53% of the area within 5 km. 88% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Tenby grades A for the outdoors: #2 of 23 in Dyfed. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
2.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
88%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
29 km
2.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
21%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
The sea
53%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Tenby?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Inside the Pembrokeshire Coast National ParkTenby sits inside it: 615 km² of protected landscape.On the coast53% of the area within 5 km is sea; 19 beaches mapped.On a National TrailThe Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route passes through.
Tenby’s strongest suit is a protected landscape all round, followed by the sea.
Outdoors grade
Tenby grades A for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Tenby, 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 90% of UK towns#2 of 23 in Dyfed · 5th of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space2.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
48out of
100
100
A park within a walk88%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
63out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape21%of the land within 5 km
79out of
100
100
Footpaths2.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
45out of
100
100
The sea53%of the area within 5 km
99out 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
Tenby is 5th of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 3,900 to 4,300 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
Tenby2.5
Towns its size2.9
Dyfed towns1.2
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Tenby2.1
Towns its size1.8
Dyfed towns2.2
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Tenby88%
Towns its size82%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Tenby stands out most for park space per resident: only 25 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 35 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hextable Kent | A+ | 6.7 | 100% | 5.1 | 9% |
| 2 | Darley Dale Derbyshire | A+ | 3.8 | 100% | 3.4 | 51% |
| 3 | Southbourne West Sussex | A | 1.3 | 92% | 3.3 | 64% |
| 4 | Pitstone Buckinghamshire | A | 1.6 | 100% | 4.2 | 40% |
| 5 | Tenby Dyfed | A | 2.1 | 88% | 2.5 | 21% |
| 6 | Chickerell Dorset | A | 1.5 | 88% | 3 | 27% |
| 7 | Bisley Surrey | A | 8 | 92% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 8 | Milton Cambridgeshire | A | 10.4 | 100% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 9 | Holt Norfolk | A | 8.5 | 84% | 2.4 | 40% |
| 10 | Old Sarum Wiltshire | A | 4.6 | 100% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 11 | Bowerhill Wiltshire | A− | 7.4 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
| 12 | Prestbury Gloucestershire | A− | 1.6 | 80% | 5.3 | 51% |
| 13 | Bearwood Dorset | B+ | 2.5 | 100% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 14 | Lofthouse and Robin Hood West Yorkshire | B+ | 3.4 | 93% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 15 | Carbis Bay Cornwall | B+ | 0.5 | 88% | 2.8 | 20% |
| 16 | Cheddleton Staffordshire | B+ | 3.5 | 88% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 17 | Bramley and Wonersh Surrey | B+ | 1.7 | 77% | 3.5 | 59% |
| 18 | Tangmere West Sussex | B | 2.1 | 100% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 19 | Grange-over-Sands Cumbria | B | 1.5 | 46% | 2.6 | 40% |
| 20 | Calverley West Yorkshire | B | 1.5 | 92% | 6 | 0% |
| 21 | Brampton Cumbria | B | 2 | 92% | 2.2 | 9% |
| 22 | Saltford Somerset | B | 1.6 | 75% | 3.6 | 24% |
| 23 | Bourton-on-the-Water Gloucestershire | B | 0.9 | 79% | 3.3 | 100% |
| 24 | Penrhyn Bay Clwyd | B− | 0.6 | 68% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 25 | Little Paxton Cambridgeshire | B− | 2.8 | 87% | 3 | 0% |
| 26 | Tumble Dyfed | B− | 19.5 | 93% | 1.5 | 0% |
| 27 | Stoney Stanton Leicestershire | B− | 2.5 | 100% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 28 | Topsham Devon | B− | 1.9 | 76% | 2.9 | 0% |
| 29 | Martock Somerset | B− | 2.9 | 85% | 3 | 0% |
| 30 | Easington Lane Tyne and Wear | B− | 0.9 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
| 31 | South Cerney Gloucestershire | B− | 2.5 | 77% | 2.4 | 7% |
| 32 | Lower Stondon Bedfordshire | B− | 2.7 | 73% | 2.2 | 5% |
| 33 | Ystradgynlais Powys | C+ | 2.5 | 78% | 1.2 | 36% |
| 34 | Send Surrey | C+ | 2.6 | 28% | 3.3 | 5% |
| 35 | Old Tupton Derbyshire | C+ | 2.3 | 73% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 36 | Eaton Bray and Edlesborough Bedfordshire | C+ | 2.6 | 72% | 1.7 | 29% |
| 37 | Thorpe Hesley South Yorkshire | C+ | 1.8 | 80% | 4 | 0% |
| 38 | Heacham Norfolk | C+ | 1.5 | 53% | 1.1 | 29% |
| 39 | Holmfield West Yorkshire | C+ | 2.8 | 74% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 40 | Knebworth Hertfordshire | C+ | 1.5 | 81% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 41 | Shirland and Stonebroom Derbyshire | C | 3.7 | 43% | 3 | 0% |
| 42 | Kirkburton West Yorkshire | C | 1.4 | 86% | 3.3 | 0% |
| 43 | Warton (Fylde) Lancashire | C | 1.3 | 92% | 1.1 | 0% |
| 44 | South Darenth and Sutton at Hone Kent | C | 1.8 | 43% | 2.7 | 10% |
| 45 | Brayton North Yorkshire | C | 0.8 | 100% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 46 | Langley Park County Durham | C | 0.8 | 84% | 3.8 | 0% |
| 47 | Deanshanger Northamptonshire | C | 1.5 | 93% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 48 | Wynyard County Durham | C | 10.7 | 64% | 1.3 | 0% |
| 49 | Beck Row Suffolk | C | 5.3 | 76% | 0.8 | 0% |
| 50 | Great Glen Leicestershire | C | 1.4 | 91% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 51 | Brookmans Park Hertfordshire | C− | 2.5 | 43% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 52 | Swanland East Riding of Yorkshire | C− | 1.1 | 75% | 0.3 | 0% |
| 53 | Crowle Lincolnshire | D | 1.3 | 91% | 1 | 0% |
| 54 | Doddinghurst Essex | D | 1.6 | 60% | 2.4 | 0% |
| 55 | Middleton Cheney Northamptonshire | D | 0.9 | 70% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 56 | North Ferriby East Riding of Yorkshire | D | 0.6 | 33% | 1 | 0% |
| 57 | Gnosall Staffordshire | D | 1.2 | 42% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 58 | Cricklade Wiltshire | D | 0.3 | 9% | 3 | 0% |
| 59 | Llantrisant Mid Glamorgan | D− | 0.6 | 42% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 60 | Little Eriswell Suffolk | D− | 0.1 | 0% | 1.5 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Tenby’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 Tenby
The biggest is Battery Gardens, 0.1 ha (0 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
Close to home
9 in 10 Tenby 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 (88%)Further (12%)
Tenby88%
Towns its size82%
Dyfed towns74%
All UK towns83%
About 500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 9 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 455 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Tenby
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
Pembrokeshire Coast
Tenby is inside it615 km²since 195121% of the land within 5 km
National Landscape
Gower
17 mi east187 km²since 1956
21% of the land within 5 km of Tenby is National Park or National Landscape, more than 78% of UK towns. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park covers 615 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Tenby is on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route
29 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Tenby and the kilometre around it, 2.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
National
Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route8.4 km
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route, a national route, passes Tenby.
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 Tenby: May to July and 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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 119 | 84 | 77 | 67 | 65 | 69 | 73 | 97 | 80 | 121 | 139 | 129 |
May is the driest month (65 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 139 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 26 nights a year. The climate in Tenby →
The coast
Tenby is a coastal town
53% of the area within 5 km of Tenby is sea. 19 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 10 with a name.
Harbour Beach0.0 mi from town
DirectionsCastle Beach0.0 mi from town
DirectionsNorth Beach0.0 mi from town
DirectionsSouth Beach0.2 mi from town
DirectionsWaterwynch Bay0.2 mi from town
DirectionsMonkstone Beach1.2 mi from town
DirectionsSaundersfoot Beach2.0 mi from town
DirectionsLydstep Haven Beach2.2 mi from town
DirectionsCoppet Hall Beach2.3 mi from town
DirectionsChurch Door Cove Beach3.0 mi from town
DirectionsThe Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route 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
4 viewpoints and 9 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.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 4
Plus 4 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 9
Plus 9 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 4
Meadow Farm Campsite0.0 mi from town
DirectionsPoppy Field0.1 mi from town
DirectionsLodge Farm Holiday Park0.7 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 1 campsite 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.
SaundersfootWoodenKilgettyPembrokeNarberthPembroke DockTenby
ABCDOutdoors Grade
| Town | Outdoors | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Near a park | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenby | A | 2.1 | 88% | 21% |
| Saundersfoot 2.4 mi | A− | 10.2 | 69% | 19% |
| Wooden 3.1 mi | D | 0.1 | 0% | 18% |
| Kilgetty 4.2 mi | B | 1.0 | 100% | 18% |
| Pembroke 8.8 mi | B+ | 2.2 | 91% | 31% |
| Narberth 8.9 mi | B− | 1.9 | 100% | 4% |
| Pembroke Dock 9.9 mi | B− | 1.7 | 80% | 25% |
Tenby grades higher for the outdoors than every neighbour in the table. Saundersfoot has at least twice Tenby’s green space per resident.
Questions about the outdoors in Tenby
What is the biggest park in Tenby?
Battery Gardens, 0.1 ha (0 acres). Noe Acre (0.2 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
What are the best walks near Tenby?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Pembrokeshire Coast Path main route.
How many people in Tenby live near a park?
88% 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 Tenby?
May to July and September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Tenby good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.5 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 45% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 48% (2.1 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 Tenby’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Tenby’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.