--- title: "Blindern, Oslo walkability score: 89/100 · How Walkable" description: "Blindern in Oslo scores 89/100 for walkability (Very Walkable). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Oslo." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/norway/oslo/blindern updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [Norway](https://howwalkable.com/cities/norway) 3. [Oslo](https://howwalkable.com/cities/norway/oslo) 4. Blindern # How walkable is Blindern, Oslo? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Blindern has a walkability score of 89 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 10th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Oslo, which scores 75 as a whole. 89 out of 100: Very Walkable Most errands can be accomplished on foot. * #10 of 20 in Oslo * 75 Oslo overall * 91 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=59.94019&lon=10.72233&q=Blindern%2C%20Oslo) ## What's within walking distance 909 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Blindern. The nearest grocery is about a minute away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, coffee, parks, schools, books & libraries and culture & entertainment. It is weakest for banks. ### Groceries 3.0 of 3 points * Bunnpris Blindern, 1 min * KIWI Trikkesløyfa, 6 min * Joker blindern, 8 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.9 of 3 points * Frederikke, 1 min * Tacoteket, 1 min * RF-Kjelleren, 1 min ### Shopping 1.5 of 2 points * Creative Flora Flowers, 6 min * Hallsystemer, 8 min * Premie-Magasinet, 12 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Kafe Niels, 3 min * Lise Kaffebar, 4 min * Parken Bakeri, 6 min ### Banks 0.3 of 1 point * DNB Bank, 17 min * Handelsbanken avd Majorstuen - Handelsbanken Majorstuen, 20 min * DNB Majorstuen, 21 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * UB-parken, 2 min * Arvid Storsveens plass, 4 min * Marienlystparken, 9 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Blindern barnestuer, 4 min * Sognsveien barnehage, 7 min * Marienlyst Gård Barnehage, 10 min ### Books & libraries 1.0 of 1 point * UiO : Realfagsbiblioteket, 1 min * Vilhelm Bjerknes' Hus, 1 min * Akademika, 1 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * Sophus Lies Auditorium, 1 min * Eilert Sundts hus, 3 min * Barnekunstmuseet, 13 min Measured from the mapped centre of Blindern, Oslo at 59.9402, 10.7223. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the centre there are about 83 street intersections per km², and blocks average 74 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced. ## Walkability across Blindern, Oslo ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Blindern. 98% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 68, is 1000 m to the north-west.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/norway/oslo/blindern.svg?v=d0399538d7f3) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Blindern, Oslo. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets. ## Nearby neighbourhoods in Oslo | Neighbourhood | Distance | Score | | ------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----- | | [Adamstuen](https://howwalkable.com/cities/norway/oslo/neighbourhoods#adamstuen) | 950 m | 93 | | [Majorstuen](https://howwalkable.com/cities/norway/oslo/neighbourhoods#majorstuen) | 1.3 km | 95 | | [Uranienborg](https://howwalkable.com/cities/norway/oslo/neighbourhoods#uranienborg) | 2.2 km | 99 | | [Nordberg](https://howwalkable.com/cities/norway/oslo/neighbourhoods#nordberg) | 2.3 km | 65 | | [Aker Brygge](https://howwalkable.com/cities/norway/oslo/aker-brygge) | 3.4 km | 98 | | [Sentrum](https://howwalkable.com/cities/norway/oslo/sentrum) | 3.6 km | 98 | | [Tøyen](https://howwalkable.com/cities/norway/oslo/neighbourhoods#toyen) | 3.7 km | 97 | | [Grønland](https://howwalkable.com/cities/norway/oslo/neighbourhoods#gronland) | 3.8 km | 98 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Oslo ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/norway/oslo/neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Blindern, Oslo ### Is Blindern walkable? Yes. Blindern in Oslo has a walkability score of 89 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. ### Is Blindern more walkable than the rest of Oslo? Blindern is more walkable than Oslo as a whole: it scores 89, against 75 for the 5 km around Oslo's centre. It is the 10th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Oslo on How Walkable. ### What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Oslo? Of the 20 Oslo neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Uranienborg (99), Sentrum (98), Grønland (98) and Aker Brygge (98). ### How is the walkability score of Blindern 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 Blindern 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](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 Blindern, Oslo?" 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.