How walkable is Charlottenburg?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Charlottenburg has a walkability score of 93 out of 100 across the 1.8 km 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 Berlin, which scores 90 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
2,673 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Charlottenburg. The nearest grocery is Ullrich Getränkemarkt, about 2 minutes away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
- REWE2 min
- Edeka Zahl4 min
- Bier 21 Cocktailbar2 min
- Musti's Gemüse Döner Kebap2 min
- Alice in Wonderland2 min
- Rossmann2 min
- C´est la vie Cafe5 min
- Milchbubies6 min
- Filiale Berlin-Rathaus Charlottenburg derzeit vorsorglich geschlossen2 min
- Commerzbank2 min
- Außenanlagen des Caritas- Mehrgenerationenhauses6 min
- Shakespeareplatz8 min
- Erste Aktivschule Charlottenburg Grundschule7 min
- Kath. Kindertagesstätte Teresa Tauscher7 min
- Stadtbibliothek Charlottenburg3 min
- Schiller-Gymnasium11 min
- Saitenflügel5 min
- Tischlerei5 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Charlottenburg at 52.5157, 13.3097. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 67 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 Charlottenburg
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.8 km around the centre of Charlottenburg. Rings mark 900 m and 1.8 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Berlin
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Tiergarten | 3.3 km | 84 |
| Schöneberg | 4.8 km | 93 |
| Berlin-Mitte | 6.4 km | 97 |
| Kreuzberg | 7.2 km | 94 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Berlin page.
Questions about walking in Charlottenburg
Is Charlottenburg walkable?
Yes. Charlottenburg in Berlin has a walkability score of 93 out of 100 across the 1.8 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Charlottenburg more walkable than the rest of Berlin?
Charlottenburg is more walkable than Berlin as a whole: it scores 93, against 90 for the 5 km around Berlin's centre. It ranks 4th of the 5 Berlin neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Berlin?
Of the 5 Berlin neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Berlin-Mitte (97), Kreuzberg (94) and Schöneberg (93).
How is the walkability score of Charlottenburg 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 Charlottenburg it is the average of 57 points spread evenly across the 1.8 km 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.