Photo: Enrevseluj · CC BY-SA 4.0Morne-à-l'Eau lies in the outer area of Guadeloupe National Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Morne-à-l'Eau’s land. 10 km of footpaths cross Morne-à-l'Eau (0.1 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 18% of Morne-à-l'Eau. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is Morne-à-l'Eau?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Morne-à-l'Eau apart: its share of Guadeloupe National Park, then the sea. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Morne-à-l'Eau 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Morne-à-l'Eau has the fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (15,764 to 16,712 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vauréal (12.3 km per km²) to Morne-à-l'Eau (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vauréal Val-d'Oise | 12.3 | 19% | 0% | 121 km |
| 2 | Noisiel Seine-et-Marne | 9.5 | 32% | 0.1% | 162 km |
| 3 | Saint-Leu-la-Forêt Val-d'Oise | 8.5 | 36% | 0.5% | 131 km |
| 4 | Bois-d'Arcy Yvelines | 7.4 | 38% | 0% | 140 km |
| 5 | Orsay Essonne | 7.3 | 27% | 0% | 157 km |
| 6 | Le Pecq Yvelines | 7.1 | 2.7% | 0% | 136 km |
| 7 | Verneuil-sur-Seine Yvelines | 5.4 | 24% | 0% | 123 km |
| 8 | Lons-le-Saunier Jura | 4.9 | 8.8% | 1.8% | 356 km |
| 9 | Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 4.7 | 12% | 11% | 45 km |
| 10 | Le Bourget Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 145 km |
| 11 | Domont Val-d'Oise | 4.5 | 28% | 0% | 133 km |
| 12 | Landerneau Finistère | 4.4 | 18% | 1.2% | On it |
| 13 | Hennebont Morbihan | 4 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 14 | Trélazé Maine-et-Loire | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 122 km |
| 15 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps Indre-et-Loire | 3.8 | 6.9% | 9.3% | 186 km |
| 16 | Marseille 16e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 8.2% | 0.2% | On it |
| 17 | Mennecy Essonne | 3.3 | 19% | 8.2% | 180 km |
| 18 | Ambérieu-en-Bugey Ain | 3.3 | 49% | 0% | 281 km |
| 19 | Saint-Julien-en-Genevois Haute-Savoie | 3.2 | 13% | 0% | 286 km |
| 20 | Lucé Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 137 km |
| 21 | Sin-le-Noble Nord | 2.7 | 12% | 0.1% | 90 km |
| 22 | Rumilly Haute-Savoie | 2.3 | 18% | 0.7% | 262 km |
| 23 | Port-de-Bouc Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 14% | 28% | On it |
| 24 | Coulommiers Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 16% | 0% | 183 km |
| 25 | Sedan Ardennes | 2 | 17% | 0% | 222 km |
| 26 | Saint-Amand-les-Eaux Nord | 1.9 | 43% | 100% | 93 km |
| 27 | Valserhône Ain | 1.7 | 59% | 19% | 292 km |
| 28 | Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert Loire | 1.7 | 23% | 13% | 216 km |
| 29 | Toul Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.4 | 20% | 0.5% | 348 km |
| 30 | Montbrison Loire | 1.3 | 5.7% | 4.8% | 227 km |
| 31 | Hayange Moselle | 1.3 | 35% | 0% | 305 km |
| 32 | Les Herbiers Vendée | 1.1 | 6.5% | 0% | 62 km |
| 33 | Biscarrosse Landes | 1.1 | 65% | 20% | On it |
| 34 | Cestas Gironde | 1 | 58% | 0% | 28 km |
| 35 | Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne Mayenne | 0.9 | 3.1% | 0% | 102 km |
| 36 | Châteaurenard Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 2.1% | 8.3% | 47 km |
| 37 | Mauguio Hérault | 0.8 | 1.4% | 49% | On it |
| 38 | Pamiers Ariège | 0.6 | 16% | 1.1% | 118 km |
| 39 | Fos-sur-Mer Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.6% | 15% | On it |
| 40 | Gaillac Tarn | 0.2 | 4.9% | 0% | 132 km |
| 41 | Morne-à-l'Eau Guadeloupe | 0.1 | 18% | 100% | On it |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Protected land in and around Morne-à-l'Eau
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Guadeloupe National Park
Guadeloupe National Park
Share of the commune’s land
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 Morne-à-l'Eau’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.
10 km of footpaths cross Morne-à-l'Eau
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 99% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 59% 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 Morne-à-l'Eau is more than 800 m from a mapped park or wood (INSEE’s population grid doesn’t cover Guadeloupe).
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The walking year in Morne-à-l'Eau
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Raizet Aero, 9.8 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 | 11.3 | 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 Morne-à-l'Eau →
Next to Morne-à-l'Eau
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morne-à-l'Eau | 100% | 18% | 0.1 | On it |
| Petit-Canal 8,212 · 6.3 km | 100% | 5.9% | 0.4 | On it |
| Les Abymes 51,055 · 8.5 km | 77% | 14% | 0.6 | On it |
| Le Moule 23,014 · 12 km | 0.1% | 13% | 0.5 | On it |
| Port-Louis 5,607 · 12 km | 100% | 16% | 0.4 | On it |
| Pointe-à-Pitre 15,040 · 13 km | 0% | 11% | 5.1 | On it |
| Sainte-Anne 23,973 · 14 km | 0% | 31% | 0.5 | On it |
Sainte-Anne is more wooded.
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 Morne-à-l'Eau
Is Morne-à-l'Eau in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Morne-à-l'Eau lies in Guadeloupe National Park (98% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Morne-à-l'Eau?
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Morne-à-l'Eau is woodland?
18% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Morne-à-l'Eau near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 4.3 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.