WalkablyIs Budapest walkable?
This page covers greater Budapest: 1.7 million people, including Érd and Dunakeszi.
In Budapest, the walk to shops is the strong point: 4 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. Its weakest point against Europe is the walk to culture, and even that is 12 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in Újlipótváros (score 86) and hardest in Csepel-Háros (score 34): a gap of 52 points.
The walk to eight daily needs
The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Budapest have a shorter walk, and half have a longer one. The words compare it with every place where people live in the 31 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 | 5 min | Better than most | 98% |
| Food and drink | 6 min | Better than most | 98% |
| Shops | 4 min | Better than most | 99% |
| Health | 7 min | Better than most | 95% |
| School | 6 min | Better than most | 96% |
| Parks | 5 min | Better than most | 99% |
| Culture | 12 min | Better than most | 78% |
| 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 3,288,171 street cells in Hungary from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Budapest, 85% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.
| Fifth of the street cells in Hungary | Bar | Budapest |
|---|---|---|
| Most walkable fifth | 85% | |
| Second fifth | 6% | |
| Middle fifth | 5% | |
| Fourth fifth | 3% | |
| Lowest-scoring fifth | 2% |
The city at a glance
On the map, click any street to see its score and the walk to each need.
Most walkable and least served 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 107 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 Budapest as a whole, so ports, hill parks and farmland drop out. Click a name to open it on the map.
Even Csepel-Háros, the area least served by daily needs on foot here, has 70% of its street cells in the most walkable fifth in Hungary. Budapest walks far better than most of the country, so even its lowest-ranked areas beat most other places.
Most walkable
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 86 | 100% | |
| 83 | 99% | |
| 83 | 96% | |
| 81 | 100% | |
| 80 | 100% |
Fewest daily needs within a walk
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 34 | 70% | |
| 37 | 68% | |
| 37 | 93% | |
| 37 | 87% | |
| 38 | 40% |
The score measures walks to eight daily needs and pleasant streets, not people, safety, crime or income. If you think a score is wrong, write to [email protected] and we will check and correct it.
Cities like Budapest
These three cities come closest to Budapest in number of people and typical score, from any of the 31 countries. Budapest has the same score as 1 of them, and in 2 of them the score is higher.
| City | Country | People | Typical score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Dublin | Ireland | 1.3 million | 61 |
| Greater Porto | Portugal | 1.0 million | 62 |
| Greater Vienna | Austria | 1.8 million | 67 |
What this page covers
This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater Budapest: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides Budapest itself, it takes in Érd, Dunakeszi, Szigetszentmiklós, Gyál, Fót and Diósd. About 1.7 million people live there (2024 figure). Inside it we scored 67,181 street cells with 317,374 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, 194,990,696 buildings in all. How the score works.