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GR 8 (France)

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France635 km · 395 mi

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7-day forecast

Open-Meteo · trail point · local dates · last updated Nov 11, 2026, 3:10 PM PT

Thu 12

Overcast

13°C / 9°C

8% · 0.0 mm

Wind 31 km/h

Good

Fri 13

Overcast

11°C / 6°C

0% · 0.0 mm

Wind 26 km/h

Good

Sat 14

Overcast

11°C / 5°C

16% · 0.0 mm

Wind 24 km/h

Good

Sun 15

Rain

14°C / 8°C

73% · 8.0 mm

Wind 49 km/h

Poor

Mon 16

Light rain

13°C / 7°C

70% · 2.3 mm

Wind 35 km/h

Poor

Tue 17

Drizzle

14°C / 7°C

88% · 7.8 mm

Wind 37 km/h

Poor

Wed 18

Drizzle

14°C / 11°C

88% · 7.4 mm

Wind 34 km/h

Poor

Route

No route line in this build. This is a very long route, so only its start point is used.

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About this trail

The sentier de Grande Randonnée 8, or GR 8 for short, is a long distance hiking trail on the French Atlantic coast. It is part of the Grande Randonnée network and runs from Saint-Brevin-les-Pins on the south of the Loire estuary, opposite the large port city of Saint-Nazaire and currently terminates at Sare in the Atlantic Pyrenees.

From the Wikipedia article “GR 8 (path)”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Trail facts

Length
635 km · 395 mi (Wikidata)
Countries
France
Continent
Europe
Trail point
47.26706, -2.16187 (Wikidata coordinate)
Wikidata
Q3478750
OpenStreetMap
relation 4043074

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Photo: “Pgrave gr8.JPG” by Jack ma, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).

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