Photo: Don-vip · CC BY-SA 4.0Mana is on the coast
96% of Mana is mapped woodland. 10 km of footpaths cross Mana (0 km per km²). 19% of Mana’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the French Guiana 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 Mana?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Mana apart: the sea, then its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Mana 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.
Mana has the fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (10,767 to 11,139 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vitry-le-François (9.3 km per km²) to Mana (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vitry-le-François Marne | 9.3 | 10% | 0% | 266 km |
| 2 | Igny Essonne | 5.5 | 20% | 0% | 156 km |
| 3 | Bondoufle Essonne | 5.3 | 7.9% | 0% | 173 km |
| 4 | Villeneuve-Tolosane Haute-Garonne | 5.1 | 0.7% | 1.1% | 151 km |
| 5 | Ormesson-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5 | 6.8% | 0% | 164 km |
| 6 | Dinard Ille-et-Vilaine | 5 | 7.9% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Vétraz-Monthoux Haute-Savoie | 4.8 | 18% | 0% | 284 km |
| 8 | Mouans-Sartoux Alpes-Maritimes | 4.6 | 22% | 0% | 8 km |
| 9 | Le Pradet Var | 4.6 | 11% | 43% | On it |
| 10 | Chanteloup-les-Vignes Yvelines | 4.4 | 21% | 0% | 126 km |
| 11 | Le Pont-de-Claix Isère | 4.3 | 15% | 2.9% | 198 km |
| 12 | Déville-lès-Rouen Seine-Maritime | 4.3 | 19% | 0.1% | 49 km |
| 13 | Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur Côte-d'Or | 4.2 | 27% | 0% | 408 km |
| 14 | Arcachon Gironde | 4 | 22% | 6.4% | On it |
| 15 | Maromme Seine-Maritime | 3.4 | 39% | 0% | 48 km |
| 16 | Croissy-sur-Seine Yvelines | 3.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 139 km |
| 17 | Thouaré-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 2.9 | 9.4% | 25% | 49 km |
| 18 | Stiring-Wendel Moselle | 2.8 | 3.4% | 0% | 360 km |
| 19 | Tinqueux Marne | 2.8 | 2.4% | 0% | 196 km |
| 20 | Annœullin Nord | 2.8 | 4.2% | 0% | 68 km |
| 21 | Passy Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 29% | 44% | 246 km |
| 22 | Amnéville Moselle | 2.3 | 12% | 0% | 315 km |
| 23 | Le Taillan-Médoc Gironde | 2.3 | 34% | 13% | 13 km |
| 24 | Châteaugiron Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 25 | La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin Loiret | 2 | 6.2% | 11% | 203 km |
| 26 | Wambrechies Nord | 1.9 | 2.9% | 0% | 57 km |
| 27 | Saint-Martin-Boulogne Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 8.3% | 0.1% | 2.1 km |
| 28 | Trets Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 18% | 34% | 28 km |
| 29 | Riorges Loire | 1.5 | 3% | 0% | 276 km |
| 30 | Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone Hérault | 1.2 | 0.7% | 52% | On it |
| 31 | Fondettes Indre-et-Loire | 1.1 | 15% | 5.3% | 180 km |
| 32 | Saint-Saulve Nord | 1.1 | 8.2% | 0.3% | 105 km |
| 33 | Tarare Rhône | 1.1 | 41% | 0% | 261 km |
| 34 | Pélissanne Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.1 | 4.7% | 57% | 27 km |
| 35 | Erstein Bas-Rhin | 0.9 | 32% | 38% | 459 km |
| 36 | Orthez Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.9 | 21% | 25% | 57 km |
| 37 | Pont-Saint-Esprit Gard | 0.8 | 5.3% | 14% | 89 km |
| 38 | Brissac Loire Aubance Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 13% | 39% | 124 km |
| 39 | Doué-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 9.6% | 100% | 118 km |
| 40 | Lavaur Tarn | 0.3 | 9.6% | 0.8% | 125 km |
| 41 | Mana French Guiana | 0 | 96% | 19% | On it |
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.
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Mana
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Île Arouaba-Nord leads, at 221 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
19% of Mana lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Guyane Regional Nature Park
Guiana Amazonian Park
Guiana Amazonian Park
La Trinité nature reserve
L’Amana nature reserve
Lucifer - Dékou-Dékou nature reserve
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.
19% of Mana’s land is protected, more than in 78% of compared French towns; the median compared town in French Guiana has –. 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. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it. 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 Mana
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 99% 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 Mana is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood (INSEE’s population grid doesn’t cover French Guiana).
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The walking year in Mana
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Charvein, 18 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) | 11.8 | 11.9 | 12.1 | 12.2 | 12.4 | 12.4 | 12.4 | 12.3 | 12.1 | 12.0 | 11.9 | 11.8 |
| High (°C) | 30 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 33 | 31 |
| Rain (mm) | 265 | 241 | 209 | 347 | 447 | 352 | 249 | 166 | 82 | 68 | 141 | 272 |
October is the driest month (68 mm) and the warmest (highs of 34 °C). 447 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 34 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Mana →
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 Mana
Is Mana in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Mana lies in Guyane Regional Nature Park (16% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Mana?
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Mana is woodland?
96% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Mana near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 2.8 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 October 30, 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.