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How walkable is Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Ipanema has a walkability score of 91 out of 100 across the 950 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 11th most walkable of the 18 neighbourhoods ranked in Rio de Janeiro, which scores 84 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,582 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Ipanema. The nearest grocery is about a minute away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
Groceries
- Zona Sul Ipanema, 2 min
- SuperPrix Supermercado Ipanema, 2 min
Restaurants & bars
- Nema - Padaria de Fermentação Natural, 1 min
- Tortamania, 1 min
Shopping
- Tecnomedi Ipanema Produtos Médicos & Ortopédicos, Saúde & Bem Estar, 1 min
- Amor Perfeito, 1 min
Coffee
- Tea Shop, 1 min
- Gringo Cafe, 2 min
Banks
- Bradesco, 2 min
- Itaú Unibanco, 3 min
Parks
- Praça General Osório, 7 min
- Parcão da Lagoa, 12 min
Schools
- College Notre Dame Ipanema, 5 min
- Jardim Escola Sarah Dawsey, 5 min
Books & libraries
- Livraria e Editora Nossa Senhora da Paz, 6 min
- Biblioteca Comunitária Paulo Coelho - Solar Meninos de Luz, 9 min
Culture & entertainment
- Teatro Ipanema, 5 min
- Cine Candido Mendes, 6 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro at -22.9840, -43.2022. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 65 street intersections per km², and blocks average 102 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 Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 950 m around the centre of Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. Rings mark 500 m and 950 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Copacabana | 2.3 km | 95 |
| Leblon | 2.3 km | 95 |
| Lagoa | 2.4 km | 79 |
| Jardim Botânico | 3.1 km | 79 |
| Humaitá | 3.3 km | 92 |
| Gávea | 3.7 km | 62 |
| Botafogo | 4 km | 94 |
| Urca | 4.8 km | 74 |
See all 18 neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro
Is Ipanema walkable?
Yes. Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro has a walkability score of 91 out of 100 across the 950 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Ipanema more walkable than the rest of Rio de Janeiro?
Ipanema is more walkable than Rio de Janeiro as a whole: it scores 91, against 84 for the 5 km around Rio de Janeiro's centre. It is the 11th 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 Ipanema 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 Ipanema it is the average of 43 points spread evenly across the 950 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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