Photo: Emoscopes · CC BY-SA 3.0Rosyth is on the coast, on the Fife Coastal Path
The sea makes up 31% of the area within 5 km. Footpaths add up to 78 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 3.4 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Rosyth add up to 1.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical town in England and Wales has 2.1. Rosyth has no Outdoors Grade: Scottish towns aren’t graded on the outdoors yet.
What kind of outdoors town is Rosyth?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Rosyth’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by the Fife Coastal Path.
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Rosyth’s locality.
8 in 10 Rosyth 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 (NRS Census 2022 output areas against OS Open Greenspace).
About 2,200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 51 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 261 residents.
Rosyth is on the Fife Coastal Path
78 km of footpaths, tracks and core paths are mapped in Rosyth and the kilometre around it, 3.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical town in England and Wales has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
The Fife Coastal Path, a national route, passes Rosyth. The regional route here is the Fife Pilgrim Way.
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.
The best walking months in Rosyth: 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) | 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 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 71 | 59 | 57 | 50 | 50 | 68 | 77 | 73 | 59 | 85 | 86 | 85 |
April is the driest month (50 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 86 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Rosyth →
The coast and beaches near Rosyth
31% of the area within 5 km of Rosyth is sea. 29 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 0 with a name.
The Fife Coastal Path passes the town.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by SEPA; check it before swimming.
6 viewpoints and 51 playgrounds
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 6
Plus 4 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 2
Picnic sites 1
Playgrounds 51
Plus 50 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Slipways 1
Plus 1 slipway 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosyth | – | 1.3 | 84% | 0% |
| Inverkeithing 1.2 mi | – | 1.7 | 97% | 0% |
| Dunfermline 2.3 mi | – | 2.8 | 94% | 0% |
| Dalgety Bay and Hillend 2.6 mi | – | 1.7 | 95% | 0% |
| South Queensferry 3.8 mi | – | 0.9 | 75% | 0% |
| Crossgates 3.8 mi | – | 0.3 | 80% | 0% |
| Cairneyhill 4.5 mi | – | 3.4 | 96% | 0% |
Dunfermline and Cairneyhill have at least twice Rosyth’s green space per resident. None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Rosyth
Is Rosyth near a National Park?
No National Park or National Scenic Area is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Rosyth.
What are the best walks near Rosyth?
3 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Fife Coastal Path, Fife Pilgrim Way and Forth Bridges Trail.
How many people in Rosyth live near a park?
84% 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%.
When is the best time of year for walking in Rosyth?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
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 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 Rosyth’s overall grade.
Where Rosyth’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 Scenic Areas: Scottish Government and NatureScot boundaries (Loch Lomond and The Trossachs, Cairngorms; the 40 National Scenic Areas), clipped to land, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Footpaths, tracks, core paths, walking routes, beaches and things to do: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License (ODbL), via Geofabrik’s Scotland extract, October 2026.
- Historic gardens, listed buildings and monuments: Historic Environment Scotland designations, 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: NRS Scotland’s Census 2022 output areas.
- Grade: Scottish towns have no Outdoors Grade yet.
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