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52%of the land protected
Outdoors in Saint-Georges · protected areas, woods and footpaths

97% of Saint-Georges is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns

Protected areas cover 52% of Saint-Georges’ land. 11 km of footpaths cross Saint-Georges (0 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.

Protected areas
52%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
97%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
11 km
0 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
19
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Île Biche
The sea
42 km
from the town center to the coast

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 place

What kind of outdoors place is Saint-Georges?

Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.

What sets Saint-Georges apart: its woods, then its share of Guiana Amazonian Park. It is shorter on footpaths.

Against French towns

How Saint-Georges 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 areas52%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
NoneMedian 0.1%100
87out of 100
Woodland97%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
Median 13%0100
100out of 100
Footpaths0 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
Median 1.7 km per km²08+
0out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
NoneMedian 0.3 km per km²3+
12out of 100

Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.

Towns its size

Saint-Georges has the fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size

The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,873 to 4,961 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.

Saint-Georges 0
Quiberon
03.57 km per km²

From Quiberon (6.6 km per km²) to Saint-Georges (0 km per km²).

Every town in the comparison
TownPaths (km/km²)WoodlandProtectedCoast
1Quiberon Morbihan6.62.8%18%On it
2Grand-Fort-Philippe Nord4.50.1%0%On it
3Bogny-sur-Meuse Ardennes4.379%100%200 km
4Le Versoud Isère3.218%0%202 km
5Pechbonnieu Haute-Garonne2.815%0%150 km
6Gratentour Haute-Garonne2.81.8%0%153 km
7L'Île-d'Yeu Vendée2.821%44%On it
8La Grand-Croix Loire2.515%0%219 km
9Ballainvilliers Essonne2.42.3%0%164 km
10Uchaud Gard2.132%2.7%26 km
11Sainte-Marie-la-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales1.91.4%1.3%On it
12Volvic Puy-de-Dôme1.957%100%269 km
13Lambres-lez-Douai Nord1.84.4%0%90 km
14Laigneville Oise1.529%0%112 km
15Le Quesnoy Nord1.42.1%100%120 km
16Montbazon Indre-et-Loire1.229%0%178 km
17Cluny Saône-et-Loire1.142%100%322 km
18Claira Pyrénées-Orientales1.10%0%7 km
19Bruyères-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise13.1%0.2%122 km
20Verneuil-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne123%0%154 km
21Mourmelon-le-Grand Marne129%0.1%226 km
22Créon Gironde0.924%0%32 km
23Briare Loiret0.827%7.9%266 km
24Souppes-sur-Loing Seine-et-Marne0.719%1.4%223 km
25Sainte-Eulalie Gironde0.67.3%0%14 km
26Heyrieux Isère0.66.6%0%242 km
27Decize Nièvre0.615%32%355 km
28Bégard Côtes-d'Armor0.511%0%13 km
29Nivillac Morbihan0.59.4%3.7%9.4 km
30La Côte-Saint-André Isère0.510%0%218 km
31Amplepuis Rhône0.429%0%269 km
32Witry-lès-Reims Marne0.43.6%0%201 km
33Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule Allier0.46.2%9.3%311 km
34Lisle-sur-Tarn Tarn0.430%0%136 km
35Verdun-sur-Garonne Tarn-et-Garonne0.312%8.5%174 km
36Saint-Père-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique0.35.6%5.7%8.1 km
37Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac Gironde0.36.2%7.7%20 km
38Castelnau-de-Médoc Gironde0.282%100%10 km
39Saint-Laurent-Médoc Gironde0.161%100%7.6 km
40Charny Orée de Puisaye Yonne0.122%0%266 km
41Saint-Georges French Guiana097%52%42 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.

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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-Georges

Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Île Biche leads, at 355 ha. Directions go to a point inside.

First pick

Île Biche

Wood or forest
355 ha
30 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside

Ilhas Taparabô

Wood or forest · 300 m outside the commune
128 ha
17 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside

Îlet Cerisier

Wood or forest
98 ha
27 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside

Îlets Yakaréssing

Wood or forest
83 ha
36 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside

Ilha Séphise

Wood or forest
80 ha
7.1 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside

Ilêt Youmino

Wood or forest · 380 m outside the commune
71 ha
25 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside

Île Mathieu

Wood or forest
68 ha
14 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside

Ilêt Jacquot

Wood or forest · 230 m outside the commune
42 ha
23 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
All 19 named parks, gardens and woods
Île BicheWood or forest · 355 ha
Directions
Ilhas TaparabôWood or forest · 128 ha · just outside
Directions
Îlet CerisierWood or forest · 98 ha
Directions
Îlets YakaréssingWood or forest · 83 ha
Directions
Ilha SéphiseWood or forest · 80 ha
Directions
Ilêt YouminoWood or forest · 71 ha · just outside
Directions
Île MathieuWood or forest · 68 ha
Directions
Ilêt JacquotWood or forest · 42 ha · just outside
Directions
Ilha Galibis ou DiogoWood or forest · 38 ha · just outside
Directions
Îlet Gros IndienWood or forest · 33 ha
Directions
Île ThéodileWood or forest · 26 ha
Directions
Île LéréWood or forest · 20 ha
Directions
Îlet CoumouriWood or forest · 18 ha
Directions
Îlet NoussiriWood or forest · 15 ha
Directions
Îlet WaniaouWood or forest · 15 ha
Directions
Ilha Marécage ou FrancesaWood or forest · 14 ha
Directions
Île PerroquetWood or forest · 12 ha
Directions
Îlet TotikoléWood or forest · 9.4 ha
Directions
Îlet SawawéWood or forest · 5.4 ha
Directions

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.

Protected areas

52% of Saint-Georges 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

Guiana Amazonian Park

46 km from the town center
National park, outer area

Guiana Amazonian Park

45 km from the town center
Regional nature park

Guyane Regional Nature Park

6.9% of the commune2.1 km from the center
Nature reserve

Pitons rocheux de l’Armontabo nature reserve

45% of the commune28 km from the center

Share of the commune’s land

Any protected area52%
National park, core0.5%
National park, outer area0.1%
Regional nature park6.9%
Nature reserve45%

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.

52% of Saint-Georges’ land is protected, more than in 87% 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.

Footpaths and woods

11 km of footpaths cross Saint-Georges

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
11 km
0 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
97%
about 2,737 km² of mapped woods

Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap

Saint-GeorgesFrench Guiana medianFrance median
Footpaths0
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²

Share of the land · mapped woods and forest

Saint-GeorgesFrench Guiana medianFrance median
Woodland97%
0%50%100%

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 Saint-Georges 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).

When to get out

The walking year in Saint-Georges

Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Saint Georges, 0.4 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)11.912.012.112.212.312.312.312.212.112.011.911.9
High (°C)303030303031323334343331
Rain (mm)3943903764725463312081024144115294

September is the driest month (41 mm) and October the warmest (highs of 34 °C). 546 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 34 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Saint-Georges →

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-Georges

Is Saint-Georges in a national or regional nature park?

Yes: Saint-Georges lies in Guyane Regional Nature Park (6.9% of the commune).

Are there good walks in Saint-Georges?

OpenStreetMap maps 11 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 Saint-Georges is woodland?

97% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.

Is Saint-Georges near the sea?

No: the coast is 42 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 4, 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.