The most walkable neighbourhoods in Paris
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
20 neighbourhoods of Paris ranked by walkability, each scored across the area around its own centre. 13 tie for the top score of 100/100, among them the Latin Quarter, Quartier des Halles and Le Marais. All 20 score 70 or more, where most errands can be done on foot, and the lowest we rank is Auteuil (92). 19 of them score 98 or more, so the order among those turns on small differences.
| # | Neighbourhood | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin Quarter | 100 |
| 1 | Quartier des Halles | 100 |
| 1 | Le Marais | 100 |
| 1 | Belleville | 100 |
| 1 | Montmartre | 100 |
| 1 | Saint-Germain-des-Prés | 100 |
| 1 | 11th arrondissement | 100 |
| 1 | Quartier Pigalle | 100 |
| 1 | Montparnasse | 100 |
| 1 | Grenelle | 100 |
| 1 | 9th arrondissement | 100 |
| 1 | Quartier de la Goutte-d'Or | 100 |
| 1 | Chaillot | 100 |
| 14 | Quartier de la Place-Vendôme | 99 |
| 14 | Passy | 99 |
| 14 | Butte-aux-Cailles | 99 |
| 14 | Quartier de la Chapelle | 99 |
| 14 | 19th arrondissement | 99 |
| 19 | Quartier de Bercy | 98 |
| 20 | Auteuil | 92 |
"From the centre" is the distance from Paris's busiest point to the neighbourhood's centre. "Area scoring 70+" is the share of points across the neighbourhood where most errands can be done on foot.
The top 5 up close
Latin Quarter
The Latin Quarter scores 100/100, 1.8 km south of Paris's busiest point. It has the most libraries and bookshops of the five: 400 within a 30 minute walk, the nearest L'Ecritoire, about a minute away. More on the Latin Quarter.
Quartier des Halles
Quartier des Halles is the most central of these five, 300 m south of Paris's busiest point, and scores 100/100. None of the others has as many shops, with 5,296 in a 30 minute walk; Promod is the nearest, about a minute away.
Le Marais
Le Marais scores 100/100, 1.2 km south-east of Paris's busiest point. Groceries are where it leads the others, 443 of them within a 30 minute walk, starting with L'Épicerie du Breizh Café, about a minute away. More on Le Marais.
Belleville
Belleville lies the furthest out of these five, 3 km east of Paris's busiest point, and scores 100/100. 4,906 everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of its middle, the nearest grocery about 3 minutes away. Its thinnest category against the others is libraries and bookshops, with 104.
Montmartre
Montmartre scores 100/100, 2.4 km north of Paris's busiest point. 7,783 everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of its middle, the nearest grocery about 4 minutes away. More on Montmartre.
Centre and outskirts
The 11 neighbourhoods within 3 km of Paris's centre average 100, and the 9 further out average 98, so walkability holds up away from the centre. The nearest to the centre, Quartier des Halles, 300 m away, scores 100, and the farthest, Auteuil, 6.1 km out, scores 92.
Each dot is a ranked neighbourhood, numbered by rank and coloured by score, placed by its distance and direction from the centre of Paris.
Paris as a whole scores 99 out of 100 across the 5 km around its centre.
Questions about Paris's neighbourhoods
What is the most walkable neighbourhood in Paris?
13 of the 20 neighbourhoods we rank in Paris tie as the most walkable, each with a walkability score of 100 out of 100 (Walker's Paradise): the Latin Quarter, Quartier des Halles, Le Marais, Belleville, Montmartre, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the 11th arrondissement, Quartier Pigalle, Montparnasse, Grenelle, the 9th arrondissement, Quartier de la Goutte-d'Or and Chaillot.
How are Paris's neighbourhoods ranked?
Each neighbourhood is scored at points 100 m to 500 m apart across a circle around its centre, sized to its area, and its score is the mean of those points. Each point's score counts the groceries, restaurants, shops, schools, parks and other everyday places within a 30 minute walk, as described in the methodology. Paris scores 99 across the 5 km around its centre.
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. Neighbourhoods and where they lie from Overture Maps and Wikidata.