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title: "District VIII, Budapest walkability score: 90/100"
description: "District VIII in Budapest scores 90/100 for walkability (Walker's Paradise): what's within a walk and how it compares with Budapest."
url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/hungary/budapest/district-viii
updated: 2026-10-22
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

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4.  District VIII

# How walkable is District VIII, Budapest?

By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 

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.

90 out of 100: Walker's Paradise

Daily errands do not require a car.

*   #9 of 20 in Budapest
*   88 Budapest overall
*   84 at the centre

[Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=47.49060&lon=19.08734&q=District%20VIII%2C%20Budapest) 

## 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

2.9 of 3 points

*   HeKi Élelmiszer, 6 min
*   CBA Budapest, 6 min
*   Spar Express, 7 min

### Restaurants & bars

2.6 of 3 points

*   Coop ABC Baross 127, 4 min
*   Grill Döner, 4 min
*   Fortuna Söröző, 6 min

### Shopping

2.0 of 2 points

*   B.G Phone, 3 min
*   Orczy Alkatrész Áruház és Szerviz, 4 min
*   Selyemvirág, 4 min

### Coffee

1.2 of 2 points

*   FiloCafé, 11 min
*   Műterem Kávézó, 12 min
*   Nem Adom Fel Cafe and Bar, 12 min

### Banks

0.3 of 1 point

*   OTP Bank, 17 min
*   Raiffeisen Bank, 17 min
*   Budapest Bank, 22 min

### Parks

1.0 of 1 point

*   Kálvária tér, 3 min
*   Koltói Anna tér, 3 min
*   Nagy Kutyafuttató, 6 min

### Schools

1.0 of 1 point

*   Gyöngyike Óvoda, 4 min
*   Semmelweis Egyetem Bokay Janos Tobbelcelu Szakkepzo Intezmenye, 5 min
*   Losonci Téri Általános Iskola, 10 min

### Books & libraries

0.8 of 1 point

*   Képregénykönyvtár - Comics Library, 9 min
*   Vasas Könyvtár, 11 min
*   Mátyás téri Antikvárium, 11 min

### Culture & entertainment

1.0 of 1 point

*   Turay Ida Theater, 5 min
*   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

![Walkability scores across the 1.5 km around the centre of District VIII. 92% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 61, is 1 km to the east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/hungary/budapest/district-viii.svg?v=729cc7dbe613)

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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/hungary/budapest/neighbourhoods#district-vii)               | 1.6 km   | 100   |
| [Pest](https://howwalkable.com/cities/hungary/budapest/pest)                                              | 2.6 km   | 98    |
| [District VI](https://howwalkable.com/cities/hungary/budapest/neighbourhoods#district-vi)                 | 2.7 km   | 99    |
| [District IX](https://howwalkable.com/cities/hungary/budapest/district-ix)                                | 2.8 km   | 66    |
| [District V](https://howwalkable.com/cities/hungary/budapest/neighbourhoods#district-v)                   | 3 km     | 99    |
| [Tabán](https://howwalkable.com/cities/hungary/budapest/neighbourhoods#taban)                             | 3.4 km   | 89    |
| [District XIV](https://howwalkable.com/cities/hungary/budapest/neighbourhoods#district-xiv)               | 3.7 km   | 85    |
| [Buda Castle Quarter](https://howwalkable.com/cities/hungary/budapest/neighbourhoods#buda-castle-quarter) | 4.3 km   | 99    |

See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Budapest ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/hungary/budapest/neighbourhoods).

## 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](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.

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