First pick
Place Euloge Lacroix
Park or garden · 10 m outside the commune
0.6 ha
1.2 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Aristoi · CC BY-SA 3.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Baillif · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Baillif lies in the outer area of Guadeloupe National Park
100% of Baillif’s land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 58% of Baillif. Footpaths add up to 10 km across Baillif (0.4 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
58%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
10 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.4 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Place Euloge Lacroix
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 0.1 km from its center
Throughout this page, the Guadeloupe median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Baillif?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Part of Guadeloupe National Park18% of the commune is in the park’s core, its strictly protected zone.A wooded commune58% mapped woodland, more than in 95% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 0.1 km from its center.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Baillif apart: its share of Guadeloupe National Park, then its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Baillif compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Protected areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
93out of 100
Woodland58%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
95out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
11out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
25out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Baillif has the 7th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,054 to 5,140 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Giberville (5.1 km per km²) to Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giberville Calvados | 5.1 | 3.2% | 0% | 11 km |
| 2 | Pulnoy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 25% | 0% | 368 km |
| 3 | Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 4.3 | 45% | 17% | 95 km |
| 4 | Billy-Berclau Pas-de-Calais | 4 | 15% | 0% | 67 km |
| 5 | Ornex Ain | 3.2 | 22% | 0% | 299 km |
| 6 | Sommières Gard | 2.8 | 21% | 1.3% | 25 km |
| 7 | Le Val d'Hazey Eure | 2.6 | 32% | 0.3% | 77 km |
| 8 | Châteaulin Finistère | 2.5 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 9 | Dives-sur-Mer Calvados | 2.5 | 8.8% | 0% | 1.2 km |
| 10 | Haillicourt Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 11 | Saint-Georges-de-Didonne Charente-Maritime | 2.3 | 19% | 37% | On it |
| 12 | Saint-Chéron Essonne | 2.2 | 49% | 0% | 162 km |
| 13 | Bonnières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.1 | 45% | 20% | 99 km |
| 14 | Baden Morbihan | 1.8 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 15 | Cucq Pas-de-Calais | 1.5 | 2.7% | 8.6% | On it |
| 16 | Yffiniac Côtes-d'Armor | 1.5 | 4.4% | 0.1% | 1.8 km |
| 17 | La Ferté Macé Orne | 1.4 | 27% | 100% | 73 km |
| 18 | Chavanoz Isère | 1.3 | 12% | 0% | 258 km |
| 19 | Petite-Forêt Nord | 1.3 | 1.8% | 1.4% | 102 km |
| 20 | Genlis Côte-d'Or | 1.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 418 km |
| 21 | Villefranche-de-Lauragais Haute-Garonne | 1.2 | 0.5% | 0% | 117 km |
| 22 | Saint-Vit Doubs | 1.2 | 30% | 0% | 400 km |
| 23 | Muzillac Morbihan | 1 | 4.9% | 7.8% | On it |
| 24 | Villenoy Seine-et-Marne | 1 | 4.7% | 0% | 161 km |
| 25 | Maen Roch Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 26 | Le Cannet-des-Maures Var | 1 | 31% | 52% | 23 km |
| 27 | Faulquemont Moselle | 0.9 | 22% | 0% | 354 km |
| 28 | Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez Loire | 0.8 | 25% | 1.8% | 215 km |
| 29 | Luynes Indre-et-Loire | 0.8 | 39% | 3.5% | 176 km |
| 30 | Aÿ-Champagne Marne | 0.7 | 16% | 100% | 211 km |
| 31 | Blaye Gironde | 0.7 | 2.7% | 58% | On it |
| 32 | Habsheim Haut-Rhin | 0.7 | 49% | 50% | 438 km |
| 33 | Villeneuve-sur-Yonne Yonne | 0.6 | 34% | 0% | 260 km |
| 34 | Val-de-Moder Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0.1% | 424 km |
| 35 | Baillif Guadeloupe | 0.4 | 58% | 100% | On it |
| 36 | Ferrière-la-Grande Nord | 0.4 | 8.1% | 100% | 133 km |
| 37 | Sully-sur-Loire Loiret | 0.4 | 25% | 40% | 238 km |
| 38 | Longuyon Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.4 | 39% | 0% | 274 km |
| 39 | Villeneuve-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.1% | 36% | 5.1 km |
| 40 | Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche Corrèze | 0.2 | 25% | 0.3% | 161 km |
| 41 | Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 7% | 0% | 62 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Baillif
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Place Euloge Lacroix leads, at 0.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Baillif
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
National park, outer area
Guadeloupe National Park
82% of the commune
National park, core
Guadeloupe National Park
18% of the commune5.4 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
National park, core18%
National park, outer area82%
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
100% of Baillif’s land is protected, more than in 93% of compared French towns. A national park’s outer area (aire d’adhésion) is made of the communes that signed the park’s charter: it guides how they grow, but it isn’t strict protection like the core. Natura 2000 doesn’t apply in the overseas départements.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
10 km of footpaths cross Baillif
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Footpaths
10 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.4 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
58%
about 14 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BaillifGuadeloupe medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BaillifGuadeloupe medianFrance median
Woodland58%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 89% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 95% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. The center of Baillif is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood (INSEE’s population grid doesn’t cover Guadeloupe).
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The walking year in Baillif
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Raizet Aero, 37 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 11.3 | 11.6 | 12.0 | 12.5 | 12.9 | 13.1 | 13.0 | 12.7 | 12.2 | 11.7 | 11.4 | 11.2 |
| High (°C) | 29 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 30 |
| Rain (mm) | 89 | 58 | 72 | 99 | 123 | 105 | 135 | 163 | 198 | 203 | 186 | 127 |
February is the driest month (58 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 203 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Baillif →
Neighbors
Next to Baillif
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Basse-TerreVieux-HabitantsSaint-ClaudeGourbeyreTrois-RivièresBouillanteBaillif
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baillif | 100% | 58% | 0.4 | On it |
| Basse-Terre 9,417 · 3.1 km | 97% | 12% | 1.9 | On it |
| Vieux-Habitants 7,077 · 4.7 km | 100% | 86% | 0.4 | On it |
| Saint-Claude 10,177 · 5.4 km | 36% | 58% | 1.2 | 5.2 km |
| Gourbeyre 7,307 · 6.5 km | 100% | 57% | 1 | On it |
| Trois-Rivières 7,415 · 12 km | 100% | 45% | 0.5 | On it |
| Bouillante 6,127 · 13 km | 100% | 86% | 0.9 | On it |
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Baillif
Is Baillif in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Baillif lies in Guadeloupe National Park (82% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Baillif?
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Baillif is woodland?
58% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Baillif near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 0.1 km from its center.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.