Photo: www.sklepik-maja.com · CC BY 3.033% of Saint-Joseph’s land is protected for nature
Footpaths add up to 10 km across Saint-Joseph (0.2 km per km²). 23% of Saint-Joseph is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Martinique 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 Saint-Joseph?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Saint-Joseph apart: its protected countryside, then the sea nearby. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Saint-Joseph 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.
Saint-Joseph has the 2nd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (15,768 to 16,756 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vauréal (12.3 km per km²) to Gaillac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vauréal Val-d'Oise | 12.3 | 19% | 0% | 121 km |
| 2 | Noisiel Seine-et-Marne | 9.5 | 32% | 0.1% | 162 km |
| 3 | Saint-Leu-la-Forêt Val-d'Oise | 8.5 | 36% | 0.5% | 131 km |
| 4 | Marly-le-Roi Yvelines | 7.6 | 37% | 0% | 138 km |
| 5 | Bois-d'Arcy Yvelines | 7.4 | 38% | 0% | 140 km |
| 6 | Orsay Essonne | 7.3 | 27% | 0% | 157 km |
| 7 | Le Pecq Yvelines | 7.1 | 2.7% | 0% | 136 km |
| 8 | Verneuil-sur-Seine Yvelines | 5.4 | 24% | 0% | 123 km |
| 9 | Lons-le-Saunier Jura | 4.9 | 8.8% | 1.8% | 356 km |
| 10 | Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 4.7 | 12% | 11% | 45 km |
| 11 | Le Bourget Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 145 km |
| 12 | Domont Val-d'Oise | 4.5 | 28% | 0% | 133 km |
| 13 | Landerneau Finistère | 4.4 | 18% | 1.2% | On it |
| 14 | Hennebont Morbihan | 4 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 15 | Trélazé Maine-et-Loire | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 122 km |
| 16 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps Indre-et-Loire | 3.8 | 6.9% | 9.3% | 186 km |
| 17 | Marseille 16e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 8.2% | 0.2% | On it |
| 18 | Mennecy Essonne | 3.3 | 19% | 8.2% | 180 km |
| 19 | Ambérieu-en-Bugey Ain | 3.3 | 49% | 0% | 281 km |
| 20 | Saint-Julien-en-Genevois Haute-Savoie | 3.2 | 13% | 0% | 286 km |
| 21 | Lucé Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 137 km |
| 22 | Sin-le-Noble Nord | 2.7 | 12% | 0.1% | 90 km |
| 23 | Rumilly Haute-Savoie | 2.3 | 18% | 0.7% | 262 km |
| 24 | Port-de-Bouc Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 14% | 28% | On it |
| 25 | Coulommiers Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 16% | 0% | 183 km |
| 26 | Sedan Ardennes | 2 | 17% | 0% | 222 km |
| 27 | Saint-Amand-les-Eaux Nord | 1.9 | 43% | 100% | 93 km |
| 28 | Valserhône Ain | 1.7 | 59% | 19% | 292 km |
| 29 | Toul Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.4 | 20% | 0.5% | 348 km |
| 30 | Montbrison Loire | 1.3 | 5.7% | 4.8% | 227 km |
| 31 | Hayange Moselle | 1.3 | 35% | 0% | 305 km |
| 32 | Les Herbiers Vendée | 1.1 | 6.5% | 0% | 62 km |
| 33 | Biscarrosse Landes | 1.1 | 65% | 20% | On it |
| 34 | Cestas Gironde | 1 | 58% | 0% | 28 km |
| 35 | Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne Mayenne | 0.9 | 3.1% | 0% | 102 km |
| 36 | Châteaurenard Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 2.1% | 8.3% | 47 km |
| 37 | Mauguio Hérault | 0.8 | 1.4% | 49% | On it |
| 38 | Pamiers Ariège | 0.6 | 16% | 1.1% | 118 km |
| 39 | Fos-sur-Mer Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.6% | 15% | On it |
| 40 | Saint-Joseph Martinique | 0.2 | 23% | 33% | 5.8 km |
| 41 | Gaillac Tarn | 0.2 | 4.9% | 0% | 132 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
6 in 10 residents of Saint-Joseph live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
About 6,300 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected land in and around Saint-Joseph
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Martinique Regional Nature Park
Pitons du Carbet 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.
33% of Saint-Joseph’s land is protected, more than in 83% of compared French towns. 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 Saint-Joseph
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 96% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 67% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Saint-Joseph: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Fort-De-France Desaix, 6.4 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) | 11.3 | 11.6 | 12.0 | 12.4 | 12.8 | 13.0 | 12.9 | 12.6 | 12.2 | 11.8 | 11.4 | 11.3 |
| High (°C) | 28 | 28 | 29 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 30 | 29 | 28 |
| Rain (mm) | 114 | 77 | 71 | 109 | 133 | 154 | 206 | 247 | 214 | 243 | 237 | 148 |
March is the driest month (71 mm) and September the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 247 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Saint-Joseph →
Next to Saint-Joseph
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Joseph | 33% | 23% | 0.2 | 5.8 km |
| Gros-Morne 9,610 · 5.3 km | 51% | 23% | 0.3 | 5.8 km |
| Le Lamentin 39,400 · 5.7 km | 4.2% | 1.8% | 0.5 | On it |
| Fort-de-France 75,506 · 5.9 km | 24% | 27% | 1.7 | On it |
| Schœlcher 19,478 · 8.4 km | 46% | 42% | 1.6 | On it |
| Le Robert 21,553 · 9.7 km | 30% | 4.6% | 0.2 | On it |
| Case-Pilote 4,537 · 11 km | 81% | 49% | 0.5 | On it |
Case-Pilote has at least twice as much protected land. Schœlcher and Case-Pilote 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 Saint-Joseph
Is Saint-Joseph in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Saint-Joseph lies in Martinique Regional Nature Park (33% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Saint-Joseph?
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Saint-Joseph is woodland?
23% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Joseph near the sea?
No: the coast is 5.8 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Joseph?
April to June: 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.