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How walkable is Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Bukit Jalil has a walkability score of 67 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the 17th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Kuala Lumpur, which scores 79 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
413 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Bukit Jalil. The nearest grocery is about 6 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, coffee, parks and schools. It is weakest for banks and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Umart, 23 min
- Super Seven Bukit Jalil, 25 min
Restaurants & bars
- The Coaster Bukit Jalil Food, 2 min
- ChiChicky, 3 min
Shopping
- Master Paw (Bukit Jalil), 4 min
- Watsons, 5 min
Coffee
- Chawan Tea, 4 min
- Say Cheese Cafe, 4 min
Banks
- Hong Leong Bank, 20 min
- Maybank, 20 min
Parks
- Jalil Sutera Park, 20 min
- Bukit Komanwel, 22 min
Schools
- The Montessori Place, 15 min
- Prefects of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Bukit Jalil, 16 min
Books & libraries
- Monalisa Bookstore, 20 min
- 蔦屋書店 TSUTAYA BOOKS, 21 min
Culture & entertainment
- Game On Sport Hub Pavillion Bukit Jalil, 20 min
- SIRIM Bukit Jalil@Innovation Hall, 21 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur at 3.0534, 101.6803. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 48 street intersections per km², and blocks average 112 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 2%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Kuala Lumpur
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Sri Petaling | 2.2 km | 86 |
| Bandar Tasik Selatan | 4.2 km | 79 |
| Desa Petaling | 4.3 km | 80 |
| Salak South | 4.8 km | 84 |
| Taman Desa | 5.6 km | 72 |
| Bandar Sri Permaisuri | 6.3 km | 87 |
| Bangsar South | 6.8 km | 88 |
| Taman Connaught | 7 km | 84 |
See all 20 neighbourhoods of Kuala Lumpur ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur
Is Bukit Jalil walkable?
Partly. Bukit Jalil in Kuala Lumpur has a walkability score of 67 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot.
Is Bukit Jalil more walkable than the rest of Kuala Lumpur?
Bukit Jalil is less walkable than Kuala Lumpur as a whole: it scores 67, against 79 for the 5 km around Kuala Lumpur's centre. It is the 17th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Kuala Lumpur on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Kuala Lumpur?
Of the 20 Kuala Lumpur neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Bukit Bintang (98), Chow Kit (96) and Kuala Lumpur City Centre (95).
How is the walkability score of Bukit Jalil 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 Bukit Jalil it is the average of 61 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. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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