Photo: Enrevseluj · CC BY-SA 4.0Sainte-Rose lies in the outer area of Guadeloupe National Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Sainte-Rose’s land. 50% of Sainte-Rose is mapped woodland. 91 km of footpaths cross Sainte-Rose (0.7 km per km²). 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 Sainte-Rose?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Sainte-Rose apart: its share of Guadeloupe National Park, then its woods.
How Sainte-Rose 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.
Sainte-Rose has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (17,060 to 18,300 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jouy-le-Moutier (10.3 km per km²) to Marmande (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jouy-le-Moutier Val-d'Oise | 10.3 | 23% | 0% | 123 km |
| 2 | Viroflay Yvelines | 9.5 | 42% | 0% | 148 km |
| 3 | Saint-Égrève Isère | 5.8 | 22% | 30% | 208 km |
| 4 | Bonneuil-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 3.6% | 0% | 163 km |
| 5 | L'Isle-d'Abeau Isère | 5.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 242 km |
| 6 | Floirac Gironde | 5.1 | 16% | 2.6% | 19 km |
| 7 | Villeneuve-Loubet Alpes-Maritimes | 5 | 30% | 16% | On it |
| 8 | Boissy-Saint-Léger Val-de-Marne | 4.4 | 50% | 0% | 166 km |
| 9 | Balma Haute-Garonne | 4.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 142 km |
| 10 | Chamalières Puy-de-Dôme | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0.1% | 258 km |
| 11 | Saran Loiret | 3.9 | 24% | 0% | 200 km |
| 12 | Écully Rhône | 3.8 | 14% | 0% | 253 km |
| 13 | Garches Hauts-de-Seine | 3.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 144 km |
| 14 | Avion Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 13% | 0% | 77 km |
| 15 | Hendaye Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.4 | 8% | 26% | On it |
| 16 | Osny Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 14% | 0.1% | 119 km |
| 17 | Firminy Loire | 3 | 25% | 0% | 204 km |
| 18 | Cluses Haute-Savoie | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 264 km |
| 19 | Yutz Moselle | 2.6 | 18% | 0% | 310 km |
| 20 | Soisy-sous-Montmorency Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 5% | 0% | 135 km |
| 21 | Carvin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 73 km |
| 22 | Digne-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.5 | 50% | 4% | 85 km |
| 23 | Pontarlier Doubs | 2.4 | 48% | 0% | 359 km |
| 24 | Annonay Ardèche | 2.3 | 30% | 0.2% | 193 km |
| 25 | Fécamp Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 25% | 2.9% | On it |
| 26 | Lattes Hérault | 2.2 | 0.8% | 22% | 5.5 km |
| 27 | Lunéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.1 | 9% | 0.1% | 389 km |
| 28 | Limay Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 6.1% | 112 km |
| 29 | Sallanches Haute-Savoie | 2 | 32% | 35% | 250 km |
| 30 | Montceau-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 1.8 | 6.6% | 0% | 347 km |
| 31 | Blanquefort Gironde | 1.7 | 15% | 7.6% | 11 km |
| 32 | Bagnols-sur-Cèze Gard | 1.6 | 27% | 8.2% | 79 km |
| 33 | Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume Var | 1 | 41% | 34% | 33 km |
| 34 | Brignoles Var | 0.9 | 48% | 17% | 34 km |
| 35 | Lamballe-Armor Côtes-d'Armor | 0.8 | 5% | 2% | On it |
| 36 | Sainte-Rose Guadeloupe | 0.7 | 50% | 100% | On it |
| 37 | Vire Normandie Calvados | 0.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 41 km |
| 38 | Orée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 11% | 12% | 66 km |
| 39 | Segré-en-Anjou Bleu Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 4.6% | 0% | 108 km |
| 40 | Ambarès-et-Lagrave Gironde | 0.4 | 4.8% | 35% | 11 km |
| 41 | Marmande Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 11% | 4% | 82 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Protected land in and around Sainte-Rose
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 Sainte-Rose’s land is protected, more than in 97% 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.
91 km of footpaths and 19 km of hiking routes cross Sainte-Rose
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 77% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 92% 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 Sainte-Rose 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 Sainte-Rose
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Raizet Aero, 21 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 Sainte-Rose →
Next to Sainte-Rose
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Rose | 100% | 50% | 0.7 | On it |
| Lamentin 18,628 · 9.8 km | 100% | 40% | 0.6 | On it |
| Deshaies 3,710 · 11 km | 100% | 80% | 0.8 | On it |
| Baie-Mahault 30,924 · 14 km | 73% | 5.6% | 0.5 | On it |
| Pointe-Noire 5,762 · 15 km | 100% | 89% | 0.5 | On it |
| Petit-Bourg 24,665 · 20 km | 99% | 70% | 0.8 | On it |
| Port-Louis 5,607 · 20 km | 100% | 16% | 0.4 | On it |
Deshaies and Pointe-Noire are 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 Sainte-Rose
Is Sainte-Rose in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Sainte-Rose lies in Guadeloupe National Park (97% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Sainte-Rose?
OpenStreetMap maps 91 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 19 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Sainte-Rose is woodland?
50% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Sainte-Rose near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 0.2 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.