First pick
Parc Le Pelletier
Park or garden
1.1 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
1.9 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: LPLT · CC BY-SA 3.036%of the land protected
Outdoors in Saint-Claude · protected areas, woods and footpaths
58% of Saint-Claude is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Protected areas cover 36% of Saint-Claude’s land. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 22 km in Saint-Claude. 41 km of footpaths cross Saint-Claude (1.2 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
36%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
58%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
41 km
1.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
22 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: Parc Le Pelletier
The sea
5.2 km
from the town center to the coast
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 Saint-Claude?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune58% mapped woodland, more than in 95% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Part of Guadeloupe National Park36% of the commune is in the park’s core, its strictly protected zone.Near the seaThe coast is 5.2 km from the town center.
What sets Saint-Claude apart: its woods, then its share of Guadeloupe National Park.
Against French towns
How Saint-Claude 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 areas36%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
84out of 100
Woodland58%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
95out of 100
Footpaths1.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
38out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
69out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Claude has the 10th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (10,023 to 10,337 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Maxéville (5.5 km per km²) to Saint-Loubès (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maxéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.5 | 24% | 0% | 363 km |
| 2 | Mondeville Calvados | 5.2 | 5.4% | 0% | 13 km |
| 3 | Serris Seine-et-Marne | 5.1 | 2.1% | 0% | 168 km |
| 4 | Villerupt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.2 | 30% | 0% | 288 km |
| 5 | Courrières Pas-de-Calais | 4.1 | 11% | 0% | 76 km |
| 6 | Villebon-sur-Yvette Essonne | 3.8 | 23% | 0% | 159 km |
| 7 | Oignies Pas-de-Calais | 3.7 | 12% | 0% | 77 km |
| 8 | Cabriès Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 28% | 1.6% | 11 km |
| 9 | Grigny-sur-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 16% | 0% | 234 km |
| 10 | Feyzin Rhône | 3.4 | 12% | 0% | 242 km |
| 11 | Soyaux Charente | 3.3 | 35% | 9% | 78 km |
| 12 | Auchel Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 8.6% | 0% | 55 km |
| 13 | Marly Moselle | 3 | 4.4% | 0% | 332 km |
| 14 | Sainte-Savine Aube | 2.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 271 km |
| 15 | Beaumont-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 2.4 | 26% | 35% | 121 km |
| 16 | Pierrelaye Val-d'Oise | 2.4 | 20% | 0% | 126 km |
| 17 | Buxerolles Vienne | 2.3 | 10% | 0% | 119 km |
| 18 | Pfastatt Haut-Rhin | 2.2 | 22% | 0.1% | 443 km |
| 19 | Fillière Haute-Savoie | 2.1 | 49% | 20% | 266 km |
| 20 | Parthenay Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 3.8% | 0.1% | 78 km |
| 21 | Avranches Manche | 1.9 | 1.5% | 0% | 2.5 km |
| 22 | La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Seine-et-Marne | 1.9 | 30% | 0% | 172 km |
| 23 | Fuveau Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.9 | 36% | 0% | 21 km |
| 24 | Pont-Audemer Eure | 1.8 | 20% | 65% | 15 km |
| 25 | Jeumont Nord | 1.8 | 25% | 0.1% | 133 km |
| 26 | Ingré Loiret | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 200 km |
| 27 | Le Muy Var | 1.7 | 35% | 46% | 16 km |
| 28 | Saint-Pierre-du-Mont Landes | 1.5 | 58% | 3.4% | 69 km |
| 29 | Le Beausset Var | 1.5 | 18% | 69% | 7.1 km |
| 30 | Lambesc Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 32% | 65% | 33 km |
| 31 | Apt Vaucluse | 1.2 | 29% | 100% | 58 km |
| 32 | Saint-Claude Guadeloupe | 1.2 | 58% | 36% | 5.2 km |
| 33 | Mazamet Tarn | 1.2 | 77% | 0.1% | 74 km |
| 34 | Ploërmel Morbihan | 1.1 | 15% | 0% | 39 km |
| 35 | Couzeix Haute-Vienne | 1.1 | 21% | 0% | 163 km |
| 36 | Douchy-les-Mines Nord | 1 | 11% | 0% | 106 km |
| 37 | Borgo Haute-Corse | 0.8 | 11% | 28% | On it |
| 38 | Gerzat Puy-de-Dôme | 0.8 | 0.5% | 0% | 261 km |
| 39 | Lillers Pas-de-Calais | 0.5 | 7.8% | 0% | 53 km |
| 40 | Carentan-les-Marais Manche | 0.3 | 0.2% | 100% | On it |
| 41 | Saint-Loubès Gironde | 0.2 | 4% | 28% | 16 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 Saint-Claude
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Le Pelletier leads, at 1.1 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin de Beauvallon
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
1.6 ha
4.1 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
36% of Saint-Claude lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
National park, core
Guadeloupe National Park
36% of the commune1.7 km from the center
National park, outer area
Guadeloupe National Park
1.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area36%
National park, core36%
National park, outer area0.1%
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.
36% of Saint-Claude’s land is protected, more than in 84% 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
41 km of footpaths and 22 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Claude
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
41 km
1.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
22 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
58%
about 19.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-ClaudeGuadeloupe medianFrance median
Footpaths1.2
Hiking routes0.6
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-ClaudeGuadeloupe medianFrance median
Woodland58%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 62% 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 Saint-Claude is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood (INSEE’s population grid doesn’t cover Guadeloupe).
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Nez Cassé via Beau-Soleil2.3 km
Bassin bleu1.1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The walking year in Saint-Claude
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Raizet Aero, 33 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 Saint-Claude →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Claude
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GourbeyreBasse-TerreBaillifTrois-RivièresVieux-HabitantsBouillanteSaint-Claude
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Claude | 36% | 58% | 1.2 | 5.2 km |
| Gourbeyre 7,307 · 3.8 km | 100% | 57% | 1 | On it |
| Basse-Terre 9,417 · 5.1 km | 97% | 12% | 1.9 | On it |
| Baillif 5,096 · 5.4 km | 100% | 58% | 0.4 | On it |
| Trois-Rivières 7,415 · 8 km | 100% | 45% | 0.5 | On it |
| Vieux-Habitants 7,077 · 8 km | 100% | 86% | 0.4 | On it |
| Bouillante 6,127 · 14 km | 100% | 86% | 0.9 | On it |
Gourbeyre, Basse-Terre and Baillif have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Saint-Claude
Is Saint-Claude in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Saint-Claude lies in Guadeloupe National Park (36% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Saint-Claude?
OpenStreetMap maps 41 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 22 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Claude is woodland?
58% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Claude near the sea?
No: the coast is 5.2 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
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.