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How walkable is Taman Melati, Bandar Baru Selayang?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Taman Melati has a walkability score of 88 out of 100 across the 450 m around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the only neighbourhood ranked in Bandar Baru Selayang, which scores 68 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
361 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Taman Melati. The nearest grocery is about 3 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee and schools.
Groceries
- PSRmart, 3 min
- Giant Gombak, 6 min
Restaurants & bars
- Warung Mek Niey, 1 min
- Inflame Little Kitchen, 1 min
Shopping
- KK Super Mart Taman Melati, 4 min
- Pasar Malam Taman Melati (Friday), 4 min
Coffee
- Flying Solo, 4 min
- Kopitiam Melati 12, 5 min
Banks
- Public Bank Jalan Gombak, 30 min
Parks
- KL East Park, 17 min
- Woodland Park, 21 min
Schools
- Pasti Al-Hafiz, 5 min
- SMK Taman Melati, 7 min
Books & libraries
- TAR UC Library, 14 min
- Perpustakaan Kuala Lumpur, 18 min
Culture & entertainment
- GSC, 12 min
- Fire Zone Family KTV, 12 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Taman Melati, Bandar Baru Selayang at 3.2240, 101.7244. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 71 street intersections per km², and blocks average 110 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 Taman Melati, Bandar Baru Selayang
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 450 m around the centre of Taman Melati, Bandar Baru Selayang. Rings mark 250 m and 450 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Questions about walking in Taman Melati, Bandar Baru Selayang
Is Taman Melati walkable?
Yes. Taman Melati in Bandar Baru Selayang has a walkability score of 88 out of 100 across the 450 m around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Taman Melati more walkable than the rest of Bandar Baru Selayang?
Taman Melati is more walkable than Bandar Baru Selayang as a whole: it scores 88, against 68 for the 5 km around Bandar Baru Selayang's centre. It is the only neighbourhood ranked in Bandar Baru Selayang on How Walkable.
How is the walkability score of Taman Melati 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 Taman Melati it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 450 m 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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