How walkable is District IX, Budapest?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
District IX has a walkability score of 66 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the joint 17th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Budapest, with 2 others, which scores 88 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
240 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of District IX. The nearest grocery is about 16 minutes away on foot. It is weakest for coffee, schools and books & libraries.
Groceries
- Spar Lurdy, 17 min
- SPAR szupermarket, 18 min
Restaurants & bars
- Street Food Station, 13 min
- Kebap Time, 15 min
Shopping
- Maxxtoner, 12 min
- AirsoftGuru, 12 min
Coffee
- McCafé, 18 min
- Mon Crémi Lurdy, 18 min
Banks
- UniCredit, 16 min
Parks
- Vajda László tér, 16 min
- Haller park, 27 min
Schools
- Jaschik Álmos Művészeti Szakgimnázium, 27 min
- Kerekerdő Óvoda, 28 min
Books & libraries
Culture & entertainment
- BOOOK Kitchen, 17 min
- Lord Jesus History, 18 min
Measured from the mapped centre of District IX, Budapest at 47.4654, 19.0904. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 31 street intersections per km², and blocks average 132 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 5%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across District IX, Budapest
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 2 km around the centre of District IX, Budapest. Rings mark 1 km and 2 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Budapest
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| District VIII | 2.8 km | 90 |
| Wekerletelep | 2.9 km | 85 |
| Kelenföld | 3.7 km | 92 |
| District XX | 4.2 km | 65 |
| District VII | 4.3 km | 100 |
| Pest | 4.3 km | 98 |
| District XIX | 4.4 km | 75 |
| Tabán | 4.6 km | 89 |
See all 20 neighbourhoods of Budapest ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in District IX, Budapest
Is District IX walkable?
Partly. District IX in Budapest has a walkability score of 66 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot.
Is District IX more walkable than the rest of Budapest?
District IX is less walkable than Budapest as a whole: it scores 66, against 88 for the 5 km around Budapest's centre. It is the joint 17th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Budapest, with 2 others on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Budapest?
Of the 20 Budapest neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are District VII (100), the Buda Castle Quarter (99), District V (99), District VI (99) and Krisztinaváros (99).
How is the walkability score of District IX 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 District IX it is the average of 48 points spread evenly across the 2 km 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. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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