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How walkable is Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Flamengo has a walkability score of 93 out of 100 across the 700 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 7th most walkable of the 18 neighbourhoods ranked in Rio de Janeiro, which scores 84 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
999 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Flamengo. The nearest grocery is about 2 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, schools and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Rede Ultra Flamengo, 5 min
- Pão de Açúcar, 7 min
Restaurants & bars
- A Nossa Sorveteria, 2 min
- Boteco Belmonte, 2 min
Shopping
- Catete Center, 1 min
- Brecholar, 2 min
Coffee
- Café e Bar da Maia, 6 min
- Cafezito, 6 min
Banks
- Bradesco, 5 min
- Banco do Brasil, 6 min
Parks
- Praça Bernardo O'Higgins, 4 min
- Praça José de Alencar, 5 min
Schools
- Instituto Nossa Senhora da Piedade, 6 min
- Amora Center Educaciona, 10 min
Books & libraries
- Atzilut Livraria e Loja de Artigos Judaicos, 9 min
- CNA, 11 min
Culture & entertainment
- Casa de Arte e Cultura Julieta de Serpa, 5 min
- Museu de Folclore Edison Carneiro, 5 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro at -22.9340, -43.1746. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 64 street intersections per km², and blocks average 110 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 Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 700 m around the centre of Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro. Rings mark 350 m and 700 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Laranjeiras | 1.4 km | 85 |
| Glória | 1.7 km | 92 |
| Santa Teresa | 1.8 km | 89 |
| Botafogo | 2.3 km | 94 |
| Urca | 2.3 km | 74 |
| Lapa | 2.5 km | 98 |
| Centro | 3.4 km | 96 |
| Humaitá | 3.5 km | 92 |
See all 18 neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro
Is Flamengo walkable?
Yes. Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro has a walkability score of 93 out of 100 across the 700 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Flamengo more walkable than the rest of Rio de Janeiro?
Flamengo is more walkable than Rio de Janeiro as a whole: it scores 93, against 84 for the 5 km around Rio de Janeiro's centre. It is the 7th most walkable of the 18 neighbourhoods ranked in Rio de Janeiro on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro?
Of the 18 Rio de Janeiro neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Lapa (98), Centro (96), Leblon (95) and Copacabana (95).
How is the walkability score of Flamengo 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 Flamengo it is the average of 51 points spread evenly across the 700 m 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. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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