First pick
Parc du Bocage
Park or garden
2.3 ha0.5 km of path
2.2 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Pierreangy · CC BY-SA 3.049%of the land protected
Outdoors in Sainte-Suzanne · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Sainte-Suzanne is on the coast
Protected areas cover 49% of Sainte-Suzanne’s land. 31% of Sainte-Suzanne is mapped woodland. 23 km of footpaths cross Sainte-Suzanne (0.4 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
49%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
31%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
23 km
0.4 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
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du Bocage
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 2.4 km from its center
Throughout this page, the Réunion 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 Sainte-Suzanne?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 2.4 km from its center.Part of Réunion National Park14% of the commune is in the park’s core, its strictly protected zone.A wooded commune31% mapped woodland, more than in 77% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Sainte-Suzanne apart: the sea, then its share of Réunion National Park. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Sainte-Suzanne 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 areas49%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
87out of 100
Woodland31%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
77out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
10out 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
Sainte-Suzanne has the fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (24,378 to 26,952 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Les Ulis (10.9 km per km²) to Sainte-Suzanne (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Les Ulis Essonne | 10.9 | 13% | 0.2% | 156 km |
| 2 | Villeneuve-la-Garenne Hauts-de-Seine | 9.8 | 4.2% | 0% | 141 km |
| 3 | Vichy Allier | 8.8 | 1.3% | 12% | 290 km |
| 4 | Grigny Essonne | 8.7 | 7.2% | 0% | 170 km |
| 5 | Élancourt Yvelines | 8.2 | 26% | 3.5% | 138 km |
| 6 | Gradignan Gironde | 6.8 | 17% | 0% | 26 km |
| 7 | Sannois Val-d'Oise | 6 | 17% | 0% | 135 km |
| 8 | Cenon Gironde | 5.4 | 8.9% | 0% | 18 km |
| 9 | Brunoy Essonne | 5.2 | 18% | 0% | 170 km |
| 10 | Eaubonne Val-d'Oise | 5 | 1.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 11 | Montbéliard Doubs | 4.9 | 22% | 0% | 418 km |
| 12 | Alençon Orne | 4.8 | 2.3% | 5.5% | 97 km |
| 13 | Marseille 2e Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.8 | 0% | 0% | On it |
| 14 | Lormont Gironde | 4.7 | 12% | 7.4% | 16 km |
| 15 | Castelnau-le-Lez Hérault | 4.6 | 4.5% | 1.2% | 11 km |
| 16 | Miramas Bouches-du-Rhône | 4 | 9.2% | 5.7% | 18 km |
| 17 | Béthune Pas-de-Calais | 4 | 4% | 0% | 60 km |
| 18 | Orly Val-de-Marne | 3.9 | 5% | 0% | 162 km |
| 19 | Eysines Gironde | 3.9 | 7.6% | 3.1% | 15 km |
| 20 | Hénin-Beaumont Pas-de-Calais | 3.8 | 5.6% | 0% | 80 km |
| 21 | La Garde Var | 3.8 | 7.6% | 25% | On it |
| 22 | Biarritz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.5 | 11% | 3.5% | On it |
| 23 | Le Grand-Quevilly Seine-Maritime | 3.4 | 4.9% | 0.1% | 50 km |
| 24 | Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 7.4% | 0% | 123 km |
| 25 | Vertou Loire-Atlantique | 3.1 | 19% | 0% | 41 km |
| 26 | Le Bouscat Gironde | 3 | 1.4% | 0% | 16 km |
| 27 | Brétigny-sur-Orge Essonne | 3 | 9.5% | 0% | 169 km |
| 28 | Aurillac Cantal | 2.7 | 2.9% | 0.2% | 195 km |
| 29 | Vernon Eure | 2.5 | 56% | 3.5% | 90 km |
| 30 | Lunel Hérault | 2.2 | 0.4% | 0.6% | 14 km |
| 31 | Libourne Gironde | 2 | 2.5% | 14% | 30 km |
| 32 | Villeparisis Seine-et-Marne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 153 km |
| 33 | Saintes Charente-Maritime | 1.9 | 12% | 9.3% | 26 km |
| 34 | Les Pavillons-sous-Bois Seine-Saint-Denis | 1.9 | 0% | 0% | 151 km |
| 35 | Saumur Maine-et-Loire | 1.5 | 15% | 100% | 133 km |
| 36 | Muret Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 10% | 3.2% | 150 km |
| 37 | Cavaillon Vaucluse | 1.1 | 3.2% | 100% | 45 km |
| 38 | Étampes Essonne | 1 | 12% | 0% | 172 km |
| 39 | Vierzon Cher | 0.8 | 44% | 0% | 265 km |
| 40 | Sèvremoine Maine-et-Loire | 0.6 | 5.3% | 0% | 70 km |
| 41 | Sainte-Suzanne Réunion | 0.4 | 31% | 49% | On it |
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 Sainte-Suzanne
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Bocage leads, at 2.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
49% of Sainte-Suzanne 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
Réunion National Park
14% of the commune6.3 km from the center
National park, outer area
Réunion National Park
35% of the commune0.8 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area49%
National park, core14%
National park, outer area35%
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.
49% of Sainte-Suzanne’s land is protected, more than in 87% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Réunion has 69%. 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
23 km of footpaths cross Sainte-Suzanne
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
23 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
31%
about 17.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Sainte-SuzanneRéunion medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Sainte-SuzanneRéunion medianFrance median
Woodland31%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 90% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 77% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 95% of Sainte-Suzanne’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Sentier Cascade Blanche1.1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Sainte-Suzanne: October and November
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Menciol, 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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 13.3 | 12.8 | 12.3 | 11.6 | 11.1 | 10.9 | 11.0 | 11.4 | 12.0 | 12.6 | 13.1 | 13.4 |
| High (°C) | 29 | 30 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 25 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 29 |
| Rain (mm) | 482 | 534 | 523 | 327 | 264 | 190 | 177 | 170 | 135 | 129 | 159 | 322 |
October is the driest month (129 mm) and February the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 534 mm of rain falls in February, the wettest month. The climate in Sainte-Suzanne →
Neighbors
Next to Sainte-Suzanne
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-AndréSainte-MarieBras-PanonSaint-DenisSalazieSaint-BenoîtSainte-Suzanne
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Suzanne | 49% | 31% | 0.4 | On it |
| Saint-André 58,885 · 6 km | 31% | 16% | 0.6 | On it |
| Sainte-Marie 37,093 · 7.5 km | 60% | 50% | 0.7 | On it |
| Bras-Panon 13,012 · 10 km | 83% | 69% | 0.6 | On it |
| Saint-Denis 155,634 · 15 km | 73% | 62% | 1.6 | On it |
| Salazie 7,268 · 15 km | 100% | 63% | 0.9 | 16 km |
| Saint-Benoît 38,604 · 18 km | 78% | 59% | 0.4 | On it |
Salazie has at least twice as much protected land. Sainte-Marie, Bras-Panon and Saint-Denis 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 Sainte-Suzanne
Is Sainte-Suzanne in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Sainte-Suzanne lies in Réunion National Park (14% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Sainte-Suzanne?
OpenStreetMap maps 23 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Sainte-Suzanne is woodland?
31% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Sainte-Suzanne near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 2.4 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Sainte-Suzanne?
October and November: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
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.