WalkablyIs Porto walkable?
This page covers greater Porto: 1.0 million people, including Vila Nova de Gaia and Rio Tinto.
In Porto, the walk to public transport is the strong point: 2 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. The walk to culture is the weak point: 12 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Leça da Palmeira (score 81) and hardest in Perafita (score 40): a gap of 41 points.
The walk to eight daily needs
The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Porto 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 | 5 min | Better than most | 97% |
| Food and drink | 4 min | Much better than most | 98% |
| Shops | 4 min | Better than most | 97% |
| Health | 6 min | Better than most | 94% |
| School | 5 min | Better than most | 99% |
| Parks | 3 min | Better than most | 98% |
| Culture | 12 min | About typical | 75% |
| Public transport | 2 min | Much 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 4,070,211 street cells in Portugal from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Porto, 82% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.
| Fifth of the street cells in Portugal | Bar | Porto |
|---|---|---|
| Most walkable fifth | 82% | |
| Second fifth | 11% | |
| Middle fifth | 4% | |
| Fourth fifth | 2% | |
| Least walkable fifth | 1% |
The city at a glance
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 38 areas where people live: each has at least 200 street cells and 251 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as Porto as a whole, so ports, hill parks and farmland drop out. Click a name to open it on the map.
Even Perafita, the least walkable area here, has 96% of its street cells in the most walkable fifth in Portugal. Porto walks far better than most of the country, so even its weakest areas beat most other places.
Most walkable
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 81 | 96% | |
| 81 | 100% | |
| 80 | 100% | |
| 80 | 100% | |
| 76 | 100% |
Least walkable
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | 96% | |
| 41 | 86% | |
| 41 | 97% | |
| 44 | 100% | |
| 45 | 98% |
Cities like Porto
These three cities come closest to Porto in number of people and typical score, from any of the 20 countries. Porto scores higher than 1 of them and lower than 2.
| City | Country | People | Typical score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | United Kingdom | 1.1 million | 63 |
| Leeds | United Kingdom | 787,000 | 63 |
| Dublin | Ireland | 1.3 million | 61 |
What this page covers
This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater Porto: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides Porto itself, it takes in Vila Nova de Gaia, Rio Tinto, Matosinhos, Ermesinde, Senhora da Hora, Gondomar and smaller places. About 1.0 million people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 43,106 street cells with 141,754 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.