How walkable is Tiergarten?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Tiergarten has a walkability score of 84 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 5th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Berlin, which scores 90 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,355 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Tiergarten. The nearest grocery is Lidl, about 8 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for parks and schools.
- The Market11 min
- EDEKA Genthiner Straße Berlin18 min
- Harry's New York Bar10 min
- Ellipse Lounge10 min
- Bauhaus Archive9 min
- Visit Iceland - Isländisches Fremdenverkehrsamt10 min
- Berlin Baking Company10 min
- Cáfe Konrad11 min
- Commerzbank AG Unternehmerkunden14 min
- Erste Group Bank Ag, Zweigniederlassung Berlin14 min
- Calandrelli-Anlage6 min
- Großer Tiergarten8 min
- ENSA-Programm8 min
- Internationale Lomonossow-Schule14 min
- Kunstbibliothek14 min
- Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co15 min
- Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand10 min
- Palacio de Sanssouci Postdam Berlin.10 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Tiergarten at 52.5098, 13.3573. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 43 street intersections per km², and blocks average 136 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 4%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Tiergarten
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.3 km around the centre of Tiergarten. Rings mark 650 m and 1.3 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Berlin
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Schöneberg | 3.1 km | 93 |
| Charlottenburg | 3.3 km | 93 |
| Berlin-Mitte | 3.3 km | 97 |
| Kreuzberg | 3.9 km | 94 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Berlin page.
Questions about walking in Tiergarten
Is Tiergarten walkable?
Yes. Tiergarten in Berlin has a walkability score of 84 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Tiergarten more walkable than the rest of Berlin?
Tiergarten is less walkable than Berlin as a whole: it scores 84, against 90 for the 5 km around Berlin's centre. It ranks 5th 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 Tiergarten 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 Tiergarten it is the average of 52 points spread evenly across the 1.3 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.