--- title: "Chinna Waltair, Visakhapatnam walkability score: 78/100" description: "Chinna Waltair in Visakhapatnam scores 78/100 for walkability (Very Walkable): what's within a walk and how it compares with Visakhapatnam." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/visakhapatnam/chinna-waltair updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [India](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india) 3. [Visakhapatnam](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/visakhapatnam) 4. Chinna Waltair # How walkable is Chinna Waltair, Visakhapatnam? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Chinna Waltair has a walkability score of 78 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 11th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Visakhapatnam, which scores 53 as a whole. 78 out of 100: Very Walkable Most errands can be accomplished on foot. * #11 of 20 in Visakhapatnam * 53 Visakhapatnam overall * 84 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=17.72591&lon=83.33744&q=Chinna%20Waltair%2C%20Visakhapatnam) ## What's within walking distance 234 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Chinna Waltair. The nearest grocery is about 9 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for shopping, banks, parks and schools. ### Groceries 2.3 of 3 points * More Supermarket, 9 min * Reliance Fresh, 10 min * More Super Market, 20 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.5 of 3 points * Vasenapoli - Millet Idli, 4 min * Some Place Else Bar, 8 min * Shack, 8 min ### Shopping 1.9 of 2 points * Tribes India, 2 min * SRR Trends, 4 min * Apollo Pharmacy Chinawaltair 3, 7 min ### Coffee 1.8 of 2 points * Mothercafe vizag, 1 min * Zero The Resto Cafe, 10 min * Bean Board, 12 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Alankit, 2 min * HDFC Bank, 8 min * Axis Bank, 9 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Biodiversity Park -Botanical Garden, 2 min * VUDA Park, 3 min * MGM Park, 7 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Sigrid Jord Preschool, 2 min * Delhi Public School, 11 min * Kotak Salesian School, 11 min ### Books & libraries 0.6 of 1 point * BookMagic Library, 13 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.7 of 1 point * Visakha Museum, 11 min * Maaya World-Vizag, 19 min * TU 142 Aircraft Museum, 19 min Measured from the mapped centre of Chinna Waltair, Visakhapatnam at 17.7259, 83.3374. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the centre there are about 176 street intersections per km², and blocks average 60 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced. ## Walkability across Chinna Waltair, Visakhapatnam ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Chinna Waltair. 83% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 13, is 1 km to the east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/india/visakhapatnam/chinna-waltair.svg?v=8738075d67c7) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Chinna Waltair, Visakhapatnam. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets. ## Nearby neighbourhoods in Visakhapatnam | Neighbourhood | Distance | Score | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----- | | [Jalari Peta](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/visakhapatnam/neighbourhoods#jalari-peta) | 550 m | 77 | | [Lawsons Bay Colony](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/visakhapatnam/neighbourhoods#lawsons-bay-colony) | 700 m | 79 | | [Relli Veedhi](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/visakhapatnam/neighbourhoods#relli-veedhi) | 750 m | 79 | | [Peda Waltair](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/visakhapatnam/neighbourhoods#peda-waltair) | 750 m | 80 | | [MVP Colony](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/visakhapatnam/mvp-colony) | 1.8 km | 83 | | [Pandurangapuram](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/visakhapatnam/neighbourhoods#pandurangapuram) | 2 km | 80 | | [Maddilapalem](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/visakhapatnam/maddilapalem) | 2 km | 76 | | [Waltair Uplands](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/visakhapatnam/neighbourhoods#waltair-uplands) | 2.6 km | 92 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Visakhapatnam ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/visakhapatnam/neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Chinna Waltair, Visakhapatnam ### Is Chinna Waltair walkable? Yes. Chinna Waltair in Visakhapatnam has a walkability score of 78 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. ### Is Chinna Waltair more walkable than the rest of Visakhapatnam? Chinna Waltair is more walkable than Visakhapatnam as a whole: it scores 78, against 53 for the 5 km around Visakhapatnam's centre. It is the 11th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Visakhapatnam on How Walkable. ### What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Visakhapatnam? Of the 20 Visakhapatnam neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Waltair Uplands (92), Ramnagar (89), Daspalla Hills (83), MVP Colony (83) and Daba Gardens (83). ### How is the walkability score of Chinna Waltair 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 Chinna Waltair it is the average of 49 points spread evenly across the 1 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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