First pick
Parcours Santé de Terreville / Grand Village
Park or garden
2.7 ha1.6 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.6 km of path
0.9 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jean-Louis Lascoux · CC BY-SA 3.046%of the land protected
Outdoors in Schœlcher · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Schœlcher is on the coast
46% of Schœlcher’s land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 42% of Schœlcher. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 2 km in Schœlcher. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
46%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
42%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
33 km
1.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.9 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: Parcours Santé de Terreville / Grand Village
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 0.9 km from its center
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 place
What kind of outdoors place is Schœlcher?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 0.9 km from its center.A wooded commune42% mapped woodland, more than in 87% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected countryside46% of the land lies in protected areas.A nature reservePitons du Carbet nature reserve covers 21% of the commune.
What sets Schœlcher apart: the sea, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Schœlcher 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 areas46%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
86out of 100
Woodland42%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
87out of 100
Footpaths1.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
47out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
30out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Schœlcher has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (18,695 to 20,244 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Meylan (9.2 km per km²) to Mauges-sur-Loire (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meylan Isère | 9.2 | 18% | 12% | 205 km |
| 2 | Villefontaine Isère | 9.1 | 21% | 1.7% | 241 km |
| 3 | Gentilly Val-de-Marne | 8 | 1.8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 4 | Le Mée-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 7.9 | 34% | 0% | 190 km |
| 5 | Mont-Saint-Aignan Seine-Maritime | 7.3 | 12% | 0% | 50 km |
| 6 | Juvisy-sur-Orge Essonne | 6.4 | 1.3% | 0% | 166 km |
| 7 | Moulins Allier | 6.1 | 3.3% | 11% | 338 km |
| 8 | Chevilly-Larue Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 3.8% | 0% | 158 km |
| 9 | Chennevières-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 163 km |
| 10 | Paris 2e Paris | 4.6 | 0% | 0% | 148 km |
| 11 | Albertville Savoie | 4.1 | 47% | 0% | 228 km |
| 12 | Mougins Alpes-Maritimes | 4 | 28% | 0% | 5.1 km |
| 13 | Cesson-Sévigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.9 | 5.2% | 0% | 50 km |
| 14 | Bruz Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.8 | 14% | 0% | 55 km |
| 15 | Bruges Gironde | 3.7 | 9.3% | 23% | 14 km |
| 16 | Ronchin Nord | 3.7 | 1.8% | 0% | 66 km |
| 17 | Cournon-d'Auvergne Puy-de-Dôme | 3.3 | 6.6% | 6.3% | 251 km |
| 18 | Ploemeur Morbihan | 3.3 | 15% | 4.9% | On it |
| 19 | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Vosges | 3.2 | 58% | 1.9% | 436 km |
| 20 | Saint-Lô Manche | 2.9 | 5% | 0% | 26 km |
| 21 | Royan Charente-Maritime | 2.8 | 8.7% | 12% | On it |
| 22 | Grande-Synthe Nord | 2.8 | 5.3% | 7.4% | On it |
| 23 | Louviers Eure | 2.8 | 55% | 0.1% | 64 km |
| 24 | Sarreguemines Moselle | 2.6 | 32% | 0.9% | 374 km |
| 25 | Lisieux Calvados | 2.4 | 1.9% | 0% | 26 km |
| 26 | La Crau Var | 2.3 | 23% | 1.8% | 6.1 km |
| 27 | Saint-Fons Rhône | 2.3 | 4.1% | 0% | 246 km |
| 28 | Vence Alpes-Maritimes | 2.2 | 28% | 64% | 8.3 km |
| 29 | Vitré Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 30 | Cahors Lot | 1.9 | 42% | 0% | 172 km |
| 31 | Bourg-lès-Valence Drôme | 1.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 166 km |
| 32 | Sorgues Vaucluse | 1.7 | 9.7% | 22% | 62 km |
| 33 | Schœlcher Martinique | 1.6 | 42% | 46% | On it |
| 34 | Pertuis Vaucluse | 1.5 | 18% | 100% | 40 km |
| 35 | Brie-Comte-Robert Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 4.7% | 0% | 176 km |
| 36 | Riom Puy-de-Dôme | 1.1 | 2.4% | 1.3% | 269 km |
| 37 | Sélestat Bas-Rhin | 1 | 40% | 56% | 462 km |
| 38 | Pornic Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 4.4% | 0% | On it |
| 39 | L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Vaucluse | 0.8 | 4.8% | 7.3% | 54 km |
| 40 | Bressuire Deux-Sèvres | 0.6 | 2.4% | 0% | 77 km |
| 41 | Mauges-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 4.7% | 11% | 88 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.
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 Schœlcher
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parcours Santé de Terreville / Grand Village leads, at 2.7 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
46% of Schœlcher lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Martinique Regional Nature Park
46% of the commune1.4 km from the center
Nature reserve
Pitons du Carbet nature reserve
21% of the commune4.4 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area46%
Regional nature park46%
Nature reserve21%
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.
46% of Schœlcher’s land is protected, more than in 86% 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.
Footpaths and woods
33 km of footpaths cross Schœlcher
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
33 km
1.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.9 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
42%
about 8.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SchœlcherMartinique medianFrance median
Footpaths1.6
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SchœlcherMartinique medianFrance median
Woodland42%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 53% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 87% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 96% of Schœlcher’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The walking year in Schœlcher
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lamentin-Aero, 11 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) | 29 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 30 |
| Rain (mm) | 115 | 82 | 82 | 123 | 138 | 167 | 198 | 257 | 219 | 257 | 261 | 158 |
February is the driest month (82 mm) and September the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 261 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Schœlcher →
Neighbors
Next to Schœlcher
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Fort-de-FranceCase-PiloteSaint-JosephLe LamentinLes Trois-ÎletsLe CarbetSchœlcher
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schœlcher | 46% | 42% | 1.6 | On it |
| Fort-de-France 75,506 · 4 km | 24% | 27% | 1.7 | On it |
| Case-Pilote 4,537 · 4.7 km | 81% | 49% | 0.5 | On it |
| Saint-Joseph 16,258 · 8.4 km | 33% | 23% | 0.2 | 5.8 km |
| Le Lamentin 39,400 · 11 km | 4.2% | 1.8% | 0.5 | On it |
| Les Trois-Îlets 6,507 · 11 km | 100% | 9.4% | 2 | On it |
| Le Carbet 3,721 · 12 km | 100% | 25% | 0.3 | On it |
Les Trois-Îlets and Le Carbet have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Schœlcher
Is Schœlcher in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Schœlcher lies in Martinique Regional Nature Park (46% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Schœlcher?
OpenStreetMap maps 33 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Schœlcher is woodland?
42% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Schœlcher near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 0.9 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.