Walkably: a free walking score for any address in 31 European countries

Type an address and see how walkable it is, from 0 to 100.

Click a spot to see why: minutes on foot to a shop, school or bus stop, and how pleasant streets are.

Why it exists

Raian Pollock began the project on 23 September 2026:

"When I lived back in Canada, there was this thing called the Walk Score, and it was published on real estate ads for rentals. I always thought that was genius [...] now in Europe, I haven't found anything similar."

Raian Pollock

What is new

  • One method for 31 countries. Reach is 60%: the walk, on real streets, to eight kinds of daily needs. Street quality is 40%: traffic, noise where we have loaded a city noise map (Barcelona so far), summer shade, busy roads and slope. If street quality is under 40, the score stays at 69 or lower. The 11 new countries are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
  • City pages. 477 cities, most with about 100,000 people or more, have a page in their language and English: https://walkably.org/cities/
  • AI connector. Through a free MCP server, https://mcp.walkably.org, assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT give a real figure for any address. No account, no key.
  • District rankings. Hamburg, Vienna and Rome, each with a table to download (CSV) or embed on your site. In Hamburg, St. Georg comes first at 87.5 and Ochsenwerder last at 21.9.
  • Free for teaching, research and journalism. The scores are under an open database licence (ODbL). The condition is the OpenStreetMap credit line: https://walkably.org/business/research

Two facts you can check

  1. The census match. We ranked neighbourhoods by our score and by the share who walk to work. In the typical French city (28 tested), rankings agree at 0.73 (1 means the same order). The formula was chosen on French data, then tested on England and Wales: 0.62 (301 council areas). Ireland: 0.69 (34 areas). The pass mark, 0.35, was set before any result.
  2. Busy roads. The busy-roads part of the score agrees at 0.56 with a published street audit of 59 European city centres (43 compared). The pass mark is 0.40.

Four checks did not pass, shown on the About page: city against city, summer shade, Barcelona street by street, and ten US cities.

Pictures and links

Pictures on request. Map: https://walkably.org. How it works: https://walkably.org/about.

Contact: Raian Pollock, hello@walkably.org