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Guadeloupe: Grande-Terre & Basse-Terre Loop: 5-Day Plan You Can Actually Drive
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The 5-day version for February: every day fits real transit, opening hours and daylight. Prefer more or fewer days? 4-day plan · 5-day plan · best time to go.
💡 Good to know for this plan
- ~11.5 hours of daylight in February.
- The drier trade-wind window gives the strongest road-trip margin, but rainforest trails, volcanic access, surf and swimming still need same-day official checks.
- Light day: day 1 has one stop and time left over. Local tours and day trips are the way to fill it — each day links to what is bookable in its own town.
Before you go · check live details
This is a planning draft. Check these changing details for your dates before booking or travelling.
Some route advice is currently available in English.
- Check the national park and volcanic area for the exact day.
Use only currently open signed public routes. Check park notices, trail state, weather and any prefectural restriction. The baseline does not promise the La Soufrière summit or Carbet Falls; fumarole access requires the authorised form stated by the park.
Check source ↗ - Check Météo-France vigilance and coastal conditions.
Check cyclone, heavy-rain, wind and wave vigilance before each road, coast or nature day. Follow closures and substitute the lower-risk heritage or village circuit whenever authorities advise against travel.
Check source ↗ - Confirm an insured car, parking and every overnight.
Confirm an insured car for the complete loop, fuel, signed parking and each overnight. Check current road works, closures and traffic before crossing between the two wings.
Check source ↗
Day 1 Pointe-à-Pitre
- Transit
- none
- Finish
- ~09:50
- Temperature
- 24.8°C–26.4°C 💨
- Rainy days
- ~6
- Daylight
- 11.5h
Time to spare on this day
One stop and a free afternoon. We don't book activities, but these partners do.
Day 2 Sainte-Anne & eastern Grande-Terre
- Transit
- 2h37
- Finish
- ~17:10
- Temperature
- 24.8°C–26.4°C 💨
- Rainy days
- ~6
- Daylight
- 11.5h
Day 3 Around Sainte-Anne & eastern Grande-Terre
- Transit
- 1h45
- Finish
- ~16:45
- Temperature
- 24.8°C–26.4°C 💨
- Rainy days
- ~6
- Daylight
- 11.5h
Day 4 Basse-Terre National Park
- Transit
- 3h02
- Finish
- ~17:50
- Temperature
- 25.0°C–26.6°C 💨
- Rainy days
- ~4
- Daylight
- 11.5h
Day 5 Deshaies & the west coast → back to start
- Transit
- 4h29
- Finish
- ~17:20
- Temperature
- 24.8°C–26.5°C 💨
- Rainy days
- ~5
- Daylight
- 11.5h
🔍 Check before you book
Every stop is a real, sourced place, but opening hours change, roads close and businesses move. Check anything you're paying for before you book.
Sources (6)
- Wikivoyage — Pointe-à-PitreCC BY-SA 4.0 (facts extracted; prose not redistributed)
- Sainte-Anne and Pointe des Châteaux circuit — lesilesdeguadeloupe.comOfficial tourism facts; original paraphrase
- Wikivoyage — Grande-TerreCC BY-SA 4.0 (facts extracted; prose not redistributed)
- Basse-Terre National Park public circuit — lesilesdeguadeloupe.comOfficial tourism facts; original paraphrase
- Wikivoyage — Basse-TerreCC BY-SA 4.0 (facts extracted; prose not redistributed)
- Deshaies village and Grande Anse circuit — lesilesdeguadeloupe.comOfficial tourism facts; original paraphrase