--- title: "Le Marais, Paris walkability score: 100/100 · How Walkable" description: "Le Marais in Paris scores 100/100 for walkability (Walker's Paradise). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Paris." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/france/paris/le-marais updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [France](https://howwalkable.com/cities/france) 3. [Paris](https://howwalkable.com/cities/france/paris) 4. Le Marais # How walkable is Le Marais, Paris? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Le Marais has a walkability score of 100 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 one of 13 neighbourhoods tied as the most walkable of the 20 ranked in Paris, which scores 99 as a whole. 100 out of 100: Walker's Paradise Daily errands do not require a car. * #1 of 20 tied, in Paris * 99 Paris overall * 100 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=48.86038&lon=2.36074&q=Le%20Marais%2C%20Paris) ## What's within walking distance 11,896 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Le Marais. The nearest grocery is about a minute away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points. ### Groceries 3.0 of 3 points * L'Épicerie du Breizh Café, 1 min * Franprix, 2 min * Picard, 4 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * Au top, 1 min * Glou, 1 min * La Perle, 1 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * l'Artisan FLeuriste, 1 min * Carel Paris, 1 min * Landeau, 1 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Café sur le Toit, 2 min * Palais des Thés, 3 min * Sevenly Heart, 3 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Cacepi, 3 min * Crédit Agricole, 5 min * Banque Populaire, 5 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Jardin des Archives-Nationales, 1 min * Square Léopold Achille, 4 min * Square Charles Victor Langlois, 4 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Lycée François-Truffaut, 4 min * Lycée Simone Weil, 4 min * École primaire publique des Hospitalières-Saint-Gervais, 5 min ### Books & libraries 1.0 of 1 point * Librairie des Archives, 2 min * Direction des Archives de France, 4 min * Le Bibliovore Paris 3, 4 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * Hôtel de Rohan, 2 min * Musée National Picasso, 2 min * Picasso Müzesi, 2 min Measured from the mapped centre of Le Marais, Paris at 48.8604, 2.3607. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the centre there are about 164 street intersections per km², and blocks average 76 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced. ## Walkability across Le Marais, Paris ![Walkability scores across the 700 m around the centre of Le Marais. 100% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 99, is 650 m to the west.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/france/paris/le-marais.svg?v=a3b4e1e5482e) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 700 m around the centre of Le Marais, Paris. Rings mark 350 m and 700 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets. ## Nearby neighbourhoods in Paris | Neighbourhood | Distance | Score | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------- | ----- | | [Quartier des Halles](https://howwalkable.com/cities/france/paris/neighbourhoods#quartier-des-halles) | 1.2 km | 100 | | [11th arrondissement](https://howwalkable.com/cities/france/paris/neighbourhoods#11th-arrondissement) | 1.4 km | 100 | | [Latin Quarter](https://howwalkable.com/cities/france/paris/latin-quarter) | 1.9 km | 100 | | [Saint-Germain-des-Prés](https://howwalkable.com/cities/france/paris/saint-germain-des-pres) | 2.1 km | 100 | | [Belleville](https://howwalkable.com/cities/france/paris/neighbourhoods#belleville) | 2.2 km | 100 | | [9th arrondissement](https://howwalkable.com/cities/france/paris/neighbourhoods#9th-arrondissement) | 2.3 km | 100 | | [Quartier de la Place-Vendôme](https://howwalkable.com/cities/france/paris/neighbourhoods#quartier-de-la-place-vendome) | 2.5 km | 99 | | [Quartier Pigalle](https://howwalkable.com/cities/france/paris/neighbourhoods#quartier-pigalle) | 3 km | 100 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Paris ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/france/paris/neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Le Marais, Paris ### Is Le Marais walkable? Yes. Le Marais in Paris has a walkability score of 100 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 Le Marais more walkable than the rest of Paris? Le Marais is about as walkable as Paris as a whole: it scores 100, against 99 for the 5 km around Paris's centre. It is one of 13 neighbourhoods tied as the most walkable of the 20 ranked in Paris on How Walkable. ### What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Paris? Of the 20 Paris neighbourhoods on How Walkable, 13 tie as the most walkable, each scoring 100: the Latin Quarter, Quartier des Halles, Le Marais and 10 others. ### How is the walkability score of Le Marais 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 Le Marais it is the average of 61 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](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 Le Marais, Paris?" 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.