--- title: "Taman Melati, Bandar Baru Selayang walkability score: 88/100" description: "Taman Melati in Bandar Baru Selayang scores 88/100 for walkability (Very Walkable): what's within a walk and how it compares with Bandar Baru Selayang." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/malaysia/bandar-baru-selayang/taman-melati updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [Malaysia](https://howwalkable.com/cities/malaysia) 3. [Bandar Baru Selayang](https://howwalkable.com/cities/malaysia/bandar-baru-selayang) 4. Taman Melati # How walkable is Taman Melati, Bandar Baru Selayang? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 88 out of 100: Very Walkable Most errands can be accomplished on foot. * 100% of its area scores 70+ * 68 Bandar Baru Selayang overall * 90 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=3.22397&lon=101.72442&q=Taman%20Melati%2C%20Bandar%20Baru%20Selayang) ## 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 3.0 of 3 points * Kedai Runcit Abang Botak Barang Muslim, 3 min * PSRmart, 3 min * Giant Gombak, 6 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * Hazriq Tomyam Seafood, 1 min * Warung Mek Niey, 1 min * Inflame Little Kitchen, 1 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Dailycare Pharmacy | Farmasi Taman Melati, 4 min * KK Super Mart Taman Melati, 4 min * Pasar Malam Taman Melati (Friday), 4 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Cerrol's Dessert Cafe, 2 min * Flying Solo, 4 min * Kopitiam Melati 12, 5 min ### Banks 0.6 of 1 point * Bank Simpanan Nasional, 12 min * Public Bank Jalan Gombak, 30 min ### Parks 0.8 of 1 point * Maze Garden Taman Melati, 9 min * KL East Park, 17 min * Woodland Park, 21 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Dzul Iman Smart Khalifah Taman Melati, 4 min * Pasti Al-Hafiz, 5 min * SMK Taman Melati, 7 min ### Books & libraries 0.6 of 1 point * BookXcess, 12 min * TAR UC Library, 14 min * Perpustakaan Kuala Lumpur, 18 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.7 of 1 point * Zoo Negara, 10 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 450 m around the centre of Taman Melati. 100% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 78, is 450 m to the west.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/malaysia/bandar-baru-selayang/taman-melati.svg?v=0ecd96d6da65) 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](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata. Ask about walking anywhere in ChatGPT with the [How Walkable app](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6accc634bcf8819189c1bcaf0e227f0f), for example "How walkable is Taman Melati, Bandar Baru Selayang?" Scores, rankings and text by How Walkable (https://howwalkable.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); credit How Walkable and link to this page when reusing them.