How walkable is District VIII, Budapest?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
District VIII has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1.5 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 9th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Budapest, which scores 88 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,828 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of District VIII. The nearest grocery is about 6 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, shopping, parks, schools and culture & entertainment. It is weakest for banks.
Groceries
- CBA Budapest, 6 min
- Spar Express, 7 min
Restaurants & bars
- Grill Döner, 4 min
- Fortuna Söröző, 6 min
Shopping
- Orczy Alkatrész Áruház és Szerviz, 4 min
- Selyemvirág, 4 min
Coffee
- Műterem Kávézó, 12 min
- Nem Adom Fel Cafe and Bar, 12 min
Banks
- Raiffeisen Bank, 17 min
- Budapest Bank, 22 min
Parks
- Koltói Anna tér, 3 min
- Nagy Kutyafuttató, 6 min
Schools
- Semmelweis Egyetem Bokay Janos Tobbelcelu Szakkepzo Intezmenye, 5 min
- Losonci Téri Általános Iskola, 10 min
Books & libraries
- Vasas Könyvtár, 11 min
- Mátyás téri Antikvárium, 11 min
Culture & entertainment
- Ludovika Futópálya, 7 min
- Fészek Színház Kulturális Egyesület, 7 min
Measured from the mapped centre of District VIII, Budapest at 47.4906, 19.0873. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 65 street intersections per km², and blocks average 101 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 District VIII, Budapest
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.5 km around the centre of District VIII, Budapest. Rings mark 750 m and 1.5 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Budapest
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| District VII | 1.6 km | 100 |
| Pest | 2.6 km | 98 |
| District VI | 2.7 km | 99 |
| District IX | 2.8 km | 66 |
| District V | 3 km | 99 |
| Tabán | 3.4 km | 89 |
| District XIV | 3.7 km | 85 |
| Buda Castle Quarter | 4.3 km | 99 |
See all 20 neighbourhoods of Budapest ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in District VIII, Budapest
Is District VIII walkable?
Yes. District VIII in Budapest has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1.5 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is District VIII more walkable than the rest of Budapest?
District VIII is about as walkable as Budapest as a whole: it scores 90, against 88 for the 5 km around Budapest's centre. It is the 9th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Budapest 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 VIII 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 VIII it is the average of 50 points spread evenly across the 1.5 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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