How walkable is Malá Strana?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Malá Strana has a walkability score of 97 out of 100 across the 650 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 4th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Prague, which scores 85 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
4,968 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Malá Strana. The nearest grocery is Nuts & Wines, about a minute away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
- Bio Market Vacek2 min
- Pinoy Bistro / Pinoy Taste of Asia2 min
- Subway1 min
- Napa bar and art gallery1 min
- Albert Jarovský1 min
- Showroom 261 min
- The Miners Coffee1 min
- Mondieu2 min
- Komerční banka1 min
- Raiffeisenbank17 min
- Unnamed park3 min
- Nosticova zahrada4 min
- Malostranská Základní Škola3 min
- ZŠ Karmelitská3 min
- Americké centrum3 min
- Knihovna HAMU4 min
- Leonardo Da Vinci Museum1 min
- Mysteria Pragensia1 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Malá Strana at 50.0872, 14.4048. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 69 street intersections per km², and blocks average 86 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 Malá Strana
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 650 m around the centre of Malá Strana. Rings mark 350 m and 650 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Prague
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Hradčany | 750 m | 93 |
| Old Town | 1000 m | 100 |
| Josefov | 1000 m | 98 |
| New Town | 1.6 km | 100 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Prague page.
Questions about walking in Malá Strana
Is Malá Strana walkable?
Yes. Malá Strana in Prague has a walkability score of 97 out of 100 across the 650 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Malá Strana more walkable than the rest of Prague?
Malá Strana is more walkable than Prague as a whole: it scores 97, against 85 for the 5 km around Prague's centre. It ranks 4th of the 5 Prague neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Prague?
Of the 5 Prague neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are New Town (100), Old Town (100) and Josefov (98).
How is the walkability score of Malá Strana 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 Malá Strana it is the average of 58 points spread evenly across the 650 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.