--- title: "Recoleta, Buenos Aires walkability score: 90/100" description: "Recoleta in Buenos Aires scores 90/100 for walkability (Walker's Paradise): what's within a walk and how it compares with Buenos Aires." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/argentina/buenos-aires/recoleta updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [Argentina](https://howwalkable.com/cities/argentina) 3. [Buenos Aires](https://howwalkable.com/cities/argentina/buenos-aires) 4. Recoleta # How walkable is Recoleta, Buenos Aires? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Recoleta has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1.5 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 15th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Buenos Aires, which scores 90 as a whole. 90 out of 100: Walker's Paradise Daily errands do not require a car. * #15 of 20 in Buenos Aires * 90 Buenos Aires overall * 100 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-34.58736&lon=-58.39157&q=Recoleta%2C%20Buenos%20Aires) ## What's within walking distance 2,965 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Recoleta. The nearest grocery is about 3 minutes away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points. ### Groceries 3.0 of 3 points * Acasiem Market, 3 min * Carrefour Express, 5 min * elrincon.recoleta, 5 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * The Embers, 1 min * Club de la Birra, 1 min * La Panera Rosa, 1 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Retoños Fieltro, 1 min * Farmacity, 1 min * ASTTON Buenos Aires, 2 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * La Biela, 1 min * Bilbo Cafe Recoleta, 2 min * CCR Bar, 2 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Banco Nación, 3 min * Galicia, 5 min * Santander Río, 5 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Plaza Intendente Alvear, 1 min * Plaza Ramón J. Cárcano, 1 min * Plazoleta San Martín de Tours, 2 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Colegio Las Cumbres, 4 min * Ayacucho 1680 Escuela Primaria, 5 min * Escuela Juan Jose Castelli, 5 min ### Books & libraries 1.0 of 1 point * Libreria Cuspide, 4 min * Crisol, 5 min * Libreria Callao, 7 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * Haras Carampangue, 2 min * Museo Participativo de Ciencias, 2 min * Village Cines Recoleta, 4 min Measured from the mapped centre of Recoleta, Buenos Aires at -34.5874, -58.3916. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the centre there are about 82 street intersections per km², and blocks average 111 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced. ## Walkability across Recoleta, Buenos Aires ![Walkability scores across the 1.5 km around the centre of Recoleta. 86% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 29, is 1 km to the north-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/argentina/buenos-aires/recoleta.svg?v=e9913523ed8b) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.5 km around the centre of Recoleta, Buenos Aires. Rings mark 750 m and 1.5 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets. ## Nearby neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires | Neighbourhood | Distance | Score | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------- | ----- | | [Retiro](https://howwalkable.com/cities/argentina/buenos-aires/neighbourhoods#retiro) | 1.7 km | 89 | | [San Nicolás](https://howwalkable.com/cities/argentina/buenos-aires/neighbourhoods#san-nicolas) | 2 km | 99 | | [Balvanera](https://howwalkable.com/cities/argentina/buenos-aires/neighbourhoods#balvanera) | 2.7 km | 97 | | [Monserrat](https://howwalkable.com/cities/argentina/buenos-aires/neighbourhoods#monserrat) | 2.8 km | 99 | | [Palermo](https://howwalkable.com/cities/argentina/buenos-aires/palermo) | 3.1 km | 93 | | [Puerto Madero](https://howwalkable.com/cities/argentina/buenos-aires/puerto-madero) | 3.7 km | 92 | | [Almagro](https://howwalkable.com/cities/argentina/buenos-aires/neighbourhoods#almagro) | 3.8 km | 98 | | [San Telmo](https://howwalkable.com/cities/argentina/buenos-aires/neighbourhoods#san-telmo) | 4.1 km | 99 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/argentina/buenos-aires/neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Recoleta, Buenos Aires ### Is Recoleta walkable? Yes. Recoleta in Buenos Aires has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1.5 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. ### Is Recoleta more walkable than the rest of Buenos Aires? Recoleta is about as walkable as Buenos Aires as a whole: it scores 90, against 90 for the 5 km around Buenos Aires's centre. It is the 15th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Buenos Aires on How Walkable. ### What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires? Of the 20 Buenos Aires neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are San Nicolás (99), Monserrat (99) and San Telmo (99). ### How is the walkability score of Recoleta calculated? The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Recoleta it is the average of 58 points spread evenly across the 1.5 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap. It measures what is within a walk, not what the walk is like: pavements, traffic, safety, hills and heat are not part of the score. This page is generated from open map data with a published walkability method, explained in the [methodology](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata. Ask about walking anywhere in ChatGPT with the [How Walkable app](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6accc634bcf8819189c1bcaf0e227f0f), for example "How walkable is Recoleta, Buenos Aires?" Scores, rankings and text by How Walkable (https://howwalkable.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); credit How Walkable and link to this page when reusing them.