How walkable is your street?

Every street in 31 European countries gets a score from 0 to 100: how easy and how pleasant it is to walk there.

Search any address, or click any place on the map, to see its score and the reasons for it.

Figure 1. Plaça d’Espanya, Barcelona. Darker hexagons are easier to walk.

Reach: the walk to eight daily needs

Reach is 60% of the score: the walk from every place to the nearest food and drink, groceries, shops, health care, school, park, culture and public transport.

We measure real walks on real streets, not straight lines.

At Plaça d’Espanya, all eight are within 4 minutes.

Key to figure 2, nearest first. Minutes on foot.

R	Food and drink	0.3	Bar Metro L1
T	Public transport	0.8	Creu Coberta
S	Shops	1.9	A newsagent
C	Culture	2.1	Biblioteca Artur Martorell
E	School	2.1	Institut de l’Esport de Barcelona
G	Groceries	2.4	Veritas
P	Parks	3.1	Jardins de Ramon Aramon i Serra
H	Health	4.0	Dentisalut

Figure 2. Veritas is 70 m away in a straight line, but 2.4 minutes on foot.

Street quality: how the walk feels

Street quality is the other 40%. Two streets can have the same shops nearby and still feel very different to walk on.

For each street we look at traffic, shade in summer, busy roads nearby and slope. Summer shade is an estimate.

On the map, a busy road has a thick line. A calm street has a thin one.

Street lines on the map, by street quality.

	Busy road	under 45
	Mixed	45 to 74
	Calm street	75 and over

Plaça d’Espanya

A major traffic road

37street quality of 100

Summer shade	17%
Main roads within 50 m	82%
Slope	1%

Carrer de la Diputació

A car-free street

86street quality of 100

Summer shade	75%
Main roads within 50 m	30%
Slope	2%

Figure 3. Two nearby streets: the same shops, a very different walk.

How to use the map

Search an address, or click any shaded place.
Read the score and its weakest need.
See the best and the weakest streets within 150 m.

How it compares, weakest first

P	Parks	3.1 min	Better than most
H	Health	4.0 min	Much better than most
S	Shops	1.9 min	Much better than most
G	Groceries	2.4 min	Much better than most
E	School	2.1 min	Much better than most
T	Public transport	0.8 min	Much better than most
C	Culture	2.1 min	Much better than most
R	Food and drink	0.3 min	Much better than most

Figure 4. The fountain on Plaça d’Espanya: close to everything, but on loud, busy streets. Its weakest need, parks, is 3.1 minutes away.

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Walkably

How walkable is any address in 31 European countries? See the walk to eight daily needs, and how pleasant the streets are on the way.

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How scores work

Every place gets a score from 0 to 100. The score has two parts.

Reach, 60%: How many minutes you walk, on real streets, to eight daily needs: groceries, food and drink, shops, health, school, parks, culture and public transport. We count 80 metres per minute. A shorter walk earns more points, and after 20 minutes a place earns none. The second and third places nearby count too.
Street quality, 40%: How pleasant the streets are for walking. We look at traffic, noise (where a noise map exists), shade in summer, busy roads nearby, and slope. Summer shade is an estimate: we calculate it from building heights and satellite tree maps, and many buildings have no height on the map.

If the street quality is under 40, the total score stays at 69 or lower.

The map shows one score for each 55 m hexagon that a walkable street crosses. Zoomed out, a hexagon shows the average of the places inside it.

Zoomed in, the shades compare places with their neighbours. The places in this part of the map are put in five groups of the same size. The darkest shade is the best fifth.

"Better than X% of the places in view" compares the score with the places on the map as you see it now, and it changes when you move or zoom the map. Zoom in to compare with the neighbourhood. Very close up, it takes the places in and around the view, about 1.2 km across. Zoom out, or press "Compare with all of …", to compare with the whole town. Zoomed out, it compares with the hexagons, and each hexagon is an average.

"Better than P% of the country" compares the score with every scored place in its country.

Each of the eight walks is compared with the places where people live across Europe, so the same minutes get the same word everywhere. "Much better than most" means the walk is shorter than from 75% of those places. "Worse than most" means it is longer than from 60% of them.

The ten cells next to each word show the share of the places in view with a longer walk. They change when you move or zoom the map. The word does not change.