Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0The sea makes up 15% of the area within 5 km. The Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park begins 2.7 mi from the town’s edge. Parks and playing fields in Dumbarton add up to 2.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical town in England and Wales has 2.1. Dumbarton has no Outdoors Grade: Scottish towns aren’t graded on the outdoors yet.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Dumbarton’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by two protected landscapes close by.
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Dumbarton’s locality.
The biggest is Levengrove Park, 19 ha (48 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
The two biggest, Levengrove Park and Pier Park, are 68% of the named green space and carry 5 km of path between them.
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 3,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 50 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 421 residents.
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.
Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park covers 1,861 km² and has been a National Park since 2002.
68 km of footpaths, tracks and core paths are mapped in Dumbarton and the kilometre around it, 2.6 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.
Close to home, the The Crags Circular Path has 11 km of local walk within 2 km of the town. 2 regional routes pass through, including the Clyde Coastal Path and Clyde Coastal Path: 2: 6 Woodhall Roundabout to Erskine Bridge.
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.
Historic Environment Scotland’s Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Dumbarton’s named parks.
19 ha. 3 listed structures and monuments stand inside it or at its edge, including St Serfs Church, Dumbarton (a scheduled monument).
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 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 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 162 | 126 | 101 | 68 | 72 | 77 | 80 | 99 | 100 | 143 | 133 | 144 |
April is the driest month (68 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 162 mm of rain falls in January, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Dumbarton →
15% of the area within 5 km of Dumbarton is sea. 1 beach is mapped within 5 km.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by SEPA; check it before swimming.
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Plus 50 playgrounds without a name on the map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dumbarton | – | 2.5 | 85% | 1% |
| Bonhill 2.3 mi | – | 4.1 | 97% | 26% |
| Alexandria 3.2 mi | – | 3.2 | 97% | 33% |
| Bishopton 3.7 mi | – | 1.6 | 68% | 0% |
| Balloch and Haldane 3.8 mi | – | 11.4 | 92% | 45% |
| Bowling and Old Kilpatrick 4.4 mi | – | 4.4 | 86% | 0% |
| Port Glasgow 4.4 mi | – | 2.9 | 72% | 0% |
Balloch and Haldane has at least twice Dumbarton’s green space per resident.
Levengrove Park, 19 ha (48 acres), with 3.6 km of path. Pier Park (4.5 ha) is second. 6 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Yes. Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park begins 2.7 mi north of the town’s edge. It covers 1,861 km² and has been a National Park since 2002.
6 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the The Crags Circular Path, The Shore Circular Path and Clyde Coastal Path. Levengrove Park alone has 3.6 km of path.
85% 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%.
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
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 Dumbarton’s overall grade.
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