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How walkable is Old City of Baku?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Old City of Baku has a walkability score of 94 out of 100 across the 400 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the most walkable of 1 neighbourhoods ranked in Baku, which scores 70 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,264 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Old City of Baku. The nearest grocery is Balli Boutique, about 6 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
- MİRAY Mətbəx təbii məhsullar11 min
- Ca'd'Ora13 min
- West Inn Restaurant2 min
- Terrace 1452 min
- Azərxalça1 min
- Folk Art3 min
- Mug Tales2 min
- Shirvanshah Garden2 min
- Rabitəbank Mərkəz Filialı7 min
- ASB8 min
- Sabir parkı4 min
- Azim Azimzadeh Park / Archeological Park5 min
- IB School Lyceum N68 min
- Bakı şəhəri, Tofiq İsmayılov adına 6 nömrəli lisey PHŞ9 min
- Libraff6 min
- Oilgazscienceproject Institute (SOCAR)8 min
- Müasir Kino Mərkəzi1 min
- Baku Marionette Theatre3 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Old City of Baku at 40.3661, 49.8347. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 66 street intersections per km², and blocks average 100 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 1%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Old City of Baku
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 400 m around the centre of Old City of Baku. Rings mark 200 m and 400 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Questions about walking in Old City of Baku
Is Old City of Baku walkable?
Yes. Old City of Baku has a walkability score of 94 out of 100 across the 400 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Old City of Baku more walkable than the rest of Baku?
Old City of Baku is more walkable than Baku as a whole: it scores 94, against 70 for the 5 km around Baku's centre. It ranks 1st of the 1 Baku neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
How is the walkability score of Old City of Baku 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 Old City of Baku it is the average of 57 points spread evenly across the 400 m around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.