WalkablyIs Sintra walkable?
This page covers greater Sintra: 401,000 people, including Agualva-Cacém and Queluz.
In Sintra, 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: most buildings have none within 20 minutes. Walking is easiest in Mem Martins (score 72) and hardest in Pedra Furada in Almargem do Bispo (score 26): a gap of 46 points.
The walk to eight daily needs
The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Sintra 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 | 8 min | About typical | 81% |
| Food and drink | 6 min | Better than most | 94% |
| Shops | 9 min | About typical | 75% |
| Health | 13 min | About typical | 66% |
| School | 6 min | Better than most | 94% |
| Parks | 6 min | About typical | 86% |
| Culture | 21 min | Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings | 48% |
| 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 Sintra, 68% 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 | Sintra |
|---|---|---|
| Most walkable fifth | 68% | |
| Second fifth | 19% | |
| Middle fifth | 7% | |
| Fourth fifth | 4% | |
| Least walkable fifth | 2% |
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 28 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 Sintra as a whole, so ports, hill parks and farmland drop out. Click a name to open it on the map.
Most walkable
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 72 | 100% | |
| 72 | 98% | |
| 71 | 98% | |
| 70 | 99% | |
| 69 | 100% |
Least walkable
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | 15% | |
| 28 | 36% | |
| 28 | 37% | |
| 31 | 39% | |
| 35 | 48% |
Cities like Sintra
These three cities come closest to Sintra in number of people and typical score, from any of the 20 countries. Sintra scores higher than 1 of them and lower than 2.
| City | Country | People | Typical score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uppsala | Sweden | 248,000 | 44 |
| Messina | Italy | 217,000 | 42 |
| Aalborg | Denmark | 203,000 | 45 |
What this page covers
This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater Sintra: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides Sintra itself, it takes in Agualva-Cacém, Queluz, Algueirão-Mem Martins, Belas, Casal de Cambra, Colares and smaller places. About 401,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 24,781 street cells with 78,396 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.