Photo: Mike Pennington · CC BY-SA 2.0Culloden is on the coast
The sea makes up 25% of the area within 5 km. Parks and playing fields in Culloden add up to 7.0 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical town in England and Wales has 2.1. Footpaths add up to 44 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 4.6 for every square kilometre. Culloden has no Outdoors Grade: Scottish towns aren’t graded on the outdoors yet.
What kind of outdoors town is Culloden?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Culloden’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by its historic parks.
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Culloden’s locality.
9 in 10 Culloden 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 200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 24 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 154 residents.
The Cairngorms National Park is 14 mi away
Protected landscapes within 30 km, by direction and distance from the edge of the locality; circle size shows each one’s area. National Scenic Areas are Scotland’s finest landscapes, chosen by NatureScot.
Cairngorms National Park covers 4,528 km² and has been a National Park since 2003.
1 waymarked walk passes through or near Culloden
44 km of footpaths, tracks and core paths are mapped in Culloden and the kilometre around it, 4.6 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.
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.
A historic garden or designed landscape in Culloden
Historic Environment Scotland’s Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Culloden’s named parks.
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OS Open Greenspace outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. Historic Environment Scotland designations.
The best walking months in Culloden: June 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) | 7.3 | 9.3 | 11.6 | 14.2 | 16.6 | 18.0 | 17.4 | 15.2 | 12.7 | 10.2 | 7.9 | 6.6 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 70 | 59 | 53 | 43 | 55 | 62 | 60 | 65 | 62 | 78 | 66 | 73 |
April is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 78 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Culloden →
The coast and beaches near Culloden
25% of the area within 5 km of Culloden is sea.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by SEPA; check it before swimming.
24 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
Playgrounds 24
Plus 24 playgrounds 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Culloden | – | 7.0 | 94% | 0% |
| Smithton 0.8 mi | – | 5.5 | 100% | 0% |
| Westhill 1.3 mi | – | 3.4 | 77% | 0% |
| Milton of Leys 3.0 mi | – | 10.7 | 98% | 0% |
| Inverness 3.6 mi | – | 3.5 | 89% | 0% |
| Nairn 11.9 mi | – | 2.1 | 84% | 0% |
None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Culloden
Is Culloden near a National Park?
Yes. Cairngorms National Park begins 14 mi south-east of the town’s edge. It covers 4,528 km² and has been a National Park since 2003.
What are the best walks near Culloden?
1 waymarked walking route passes within 2 km of the town, including the Slighe Blàr Chùil Lodair.
How many people in Culloden live near a park?
94% 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 Culloden?
June to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Which parks in Culloden are historic?
Culloden House (Grade ) is on Historic Environment Scotland’s Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes.
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 Culloden’s overall grade.
Where Culloden’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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