Is Hamburg walkable?

This page covers Hamburg: 1.9 million people.

67/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

80%Hamburg is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

32ndBy typical score, of the 84 cities in Germany on this site.

In Hamburg, the walk to a park is the strong point: 3 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. Its weakest point against Europe is the walk to public transport, and even that is 3 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in Altona (score 87) and hardest in Howe (score 29): a gap of 58 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Hamburg have a shorter walk, and half have a longer one. The words compare it with every place where people live in the 20 countries on the map, so the same minutes get the same word everywhere.

Need	Typical walk	Compared with Europe	Buildings with one within 20 min
Groceries	7 min	Better than most	96%
Food and drink	6 min	Better than most	98%
Shops	5 min	Better than most	98%
Health	7 min	Better than most	93%
School	5 min	Better than most	96%
Parks	3 min	Better than most	98%
Culture	8 min	Better than most	93%
Public transport	3 min	Better than most	100%

Compared with the rest of the country

The map is cut into six-sided cells 55 m across, and every cell that a street passes through gets a score: we call these street cells. We sort all 21,716,445 street cells in Germany from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Hamburg, 81% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Hamburg in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Germany.
Fifth of the street cells in Germany	Bar	Hamburg
Most walkable fifth		81%
Second fifth		11%
Middle fifth		4%
Fourth fifth		3%
Least walkable fifth		1%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,548 hexagons groups the street cells within about 336 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Hamburg on the map

On the map, click any street to see its score and the walk to each need.

The most and least walkable areas

Each street cell takes the name of the nearest neighbourhood, village or town on OpenStreetMap, up to 1.5 km away. We rank the 103 areas where people live: each has at least 200 street cells and 500 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as Hamburg as a whole, so ports, hill parks and farmland drop out. Click a name to open it on the map.

Most walkable

Numbers 1 to 5 on the map. In the top fifth: share of the area’s street cells in the most walkable fifth in Germany.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Altona	87	77%
Sternschanze	86	100%
St. Georg	86	100%
Eimsbüttel	85	100%
Neustadt	84	100%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Howe	29	under 1%
Spadenland	35	12%
Billbrook	35	17%
Ochsenwerder	36	8%
Altengamme	36	26%

Cities like Hamburg

These three cities come closest to Hamburg in number of people and typical score, from any of the 20 countries. Hamburg scores higher than 1 of them and lower than 2.

City	Country	People	Typical score
Vienna	Austria	1.8 million	67
Lisbon	Portugal	2.0 million	68
Rotterdam	Netherlands	1.3 million	66

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Hamburg as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 1.9 million people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 61,962 street cells with 330,668 buildings in them.

Every number here comes from the same scores as the map. The score runs from 0 to 100. The walk to eight daily needs on real streets makes up 60% of it, and how pleasant the streets are makes up 40%. The comparison with Europe counts every place by its buildings, 163,668,724 buildings in all. How the score works.