First pick
Place de la Victoire
Park or garden
1.8 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
Centralin the middle of Pointe-à-Pitre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Zivax · CC BY-SA 3.011%woodland
Outdoors in Pointe-à-Pitre · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Pointe-à-Pitre is on the coast
14 km of footpaths cross Pointe-à-Pitre (5.1 km per km²). No protected area reaches Pointe-à-Pitre; the nearest, Guadeloupe National Park, is 1.1 km from the town center. 11% of Pointe-à-Pitre is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Guadeloupe National Park, 1.1 km
Woodland
11%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
14 km
5.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Place de la Victoire
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 0.5 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 Pointe-à-Pitre?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 0.5 km from its center.A place of footpaths5.1 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyGuadeloupe National Park is 1.1 km from the town center.
What sets Pointe-à-Pitre apart: the sea, then its footpaths.
Against French towns
How Pointe-à-Pitre 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 areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland11%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
42out of 100
Footpaths5.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
91out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Pointe-à-Pitre has the 9th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (14,607 to 15,478 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 1er (17.1 km per km²) to Saint-Gilles (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 1er Paris | 17.1 | 0% | 0% | 148 km |
| 2 | Lognes Seine-et-Marne | 9.3 | 14% | 0% | 164 km |
| 3 | Verrières-le-Buisson Essonne | 8.5 | 52% | 3.9% | 156 km |
| 4 | Villers-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 8.4 | 48% | 0% | 365 km |
| 5 | Laxou Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.9 | 74% | 0% | 364 km |
| 6 | Haubourdin Nord | 6.6 | 10% | 0% | 62 km |
| 7 | Ramonville-Saint-Agne Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 9.9% | 0% | 141 km |
| 8 | Castanet-Tolosan Haute-Garonne | 5.1 | 12% | 0% | 138 km |
| 9 | Pointe-à-Pitre Guadeloupe | 5.1 | 11% | 0% | On it |
| 10 | Avrillé Maine-et-Loire | 4.9 | 9.1% | 0% | 117 km |
| 11 | Montargis Loiret | 4.8 | 5.7% | 0% | 237 km |
| 12 | Dinan Côtes-d'Armor | 4.7 | 17% | 100% | 5.6 km |
| 13 | Montmagny Val-d'Oise | 4.4 | 25% | 0% | 139 km |
| 14 | Saint-Avertin Indre-et-Loire | 4.3 | 14% | 0% | 184 km |
| 15 | Bar-le-Duc Meuse | 3.7 | 55% | 0% | 297 km |
| 16 | Bouc-Bel-Air Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.5 | 29% | 0% | 12 km |
| 17 | Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt Val-d'Oise | 3.3 | 24% | 0% | 137 km |
| 18 | Saint-Orens-de-Gameville Haute-Garonne | 3.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 138 km |
| 19 | Vesoul Haute-Saône | 3.1 | 3.3% | 3.6% | 434 km |
| 20 | Woippy Moselle | 3.1 | 12% | 0% | 325 km |
| 21 | Pontivy Morbihan | 2.8 | 14% | 0% | 36 km |
| 22 | Saint-Avold Moselle | 2.5 | 53% | 2.9% | 356 km |
| 23 | Saint-Jean-de-Luz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.4 | 28% | 7.6% | On it |
| 24 | Roquebrune-sur-Argens Var | 2.4 | 40% | 25% | On it |
| 25 | Morlaix Finistère | 2.3 | 18% | 3.8% | On it |
| 26 | Carrières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.2 | 5% | 0% | 138 km |
| 27 | Fameck Moselle | 2.2 | 32% | 0% | 309 km |
| 28 | Senlis Oise | 2.1 | 48% | 100% | 126 km |
| 29 | Montivilliers Seine-Maritime | 2 | 6.9% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 30 | Château-Thierry Aisne | 1.9 | 18% | 0% | 176 km |
| 31 | Illzach Haut-Rhin | 1.9 | 2.6% | 0% | 443 km |
| 32 | Rive-de-Gier Loire | 1.7 | 13% | 0.1% | 222 km |
| 33 | Arnouville Val-d'Oise | 1.6 | 4.6% | 0% | 141 km |
| 34 | Issoire Puy-de-Dôme | 1.4 | 8% | 3.4% | 229 km |
| 35 | La Flèche Sarthe | 1.3 | 34% | 11% | 140 km |
| 36 | Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1 | 75% | 0% | 49 km |
| 37 | Tarascon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 16% | 13% | 41 km |
| 38 | Le Raincy Seine-Saint-Denis | 0.8 | 0% | 0.1% | 153 km |
| 39 | Romilly-sur-Seine Aube | 0.8 | 35% | 4.2% | 237 km |
| 40 | Bailleul Nord | 0.7 | 0.9% | 0% | 42 km |
| 41 | Saint-Gilles Gard | 0.4 | 2.5% | 18% | 25 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 Pointe-à-Pitre
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Place de la Victoire leads, at 1.8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Antoine Hippomène Léauva Shakir
Park or garden · 320 m outside the commune
1.1 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
1.2 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Guadeloupe National Park is the nearest protected area, 1.1 km away
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
1.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
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
14 km of footpaths cross Pointe-à-Pitre
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
14 km
5.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
11%
about 0.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Pointe-à-PitreGuadeloupe medianFrance median
Footpaths5.1
Hiking routes0
036 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Pointe-à-PitreGuadeloupe medianFrance median
Woodland11%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 91% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 58% 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 Pointe-à-Pitre 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 Pointe-à-Pitre
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Raizet Aero, 3.2 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 Pointe-à-Pitre →
Neighbors
Next to Pointe-à-Pitre
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Les AbymesLe GosierBaie-MahaultPetit-BourgLamentinGoyavePointe-à-Pitre
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe-à-Pitre | 0% | 11% | 5.1 | On it |
| Les Abymes 51,055 · 4.5 km | 77% | 14% | 0.6 | On it |
| Le Gosier 27,757 · 5.9 km | 0.2% | 34% | 0.6 | On it |
| Baie-Mahault 30,924 · 6.4 km | 73% | 5.6% | 0.5 | On it |
| Petit-Bourg 24,665 · 8.2 km | 99% | 70% | 0.8 | On it |
| Lamentin 18,628 · 11 km | 100% | 40% | 0.6 | On it |
| Goyave 7,565 · 13 km | 99% | 72% | 0.6 | On it |
Les Abymes, Baie-Mahault and Petit-Bourg have at least twice as much protected land. Le Gosier, Petit-Bourg and Lamentin are more wooded.
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 Pointe-à-Pitre
Is Pointe-à-Pitre in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Guadeloupe National Park, 1.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Pointe-à-Pitre?
OpenStreetMap maps 14 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 5.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Pointe-à-Pitre is woodland?
11% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Pointe-à-Pitre near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 0.5 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.