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How walkable is Green Point, Cape Town?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Green Point has a walkability score of 80 out of 100 across the 800 m 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 Cape Town, which scores 74 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
693 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Green Point. The nearest grocery is about 6 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, parks and schools. It is weakest for banks.
Groceries
- Woolworths, 8 min
- Green Point Kwikspar, 9 min
Restaurants & bars
- Nu Health Food, 6 min
- The Hussar Grill, 7 min
Shopping
- John O'Connor Cycles, 8 min
- Pharmacy at SPAR, 8 min
Coffee
- Park Cafe, 9 min
- Cushty Neighbourhood Deli, 9 min
Banks
- First National Bank, 23 min
- Standard Bank, 23 min
Parks
- Green Point Park Dog Park, 9 min
- Prom Park, 12 min
Schools
- Blooming Good Nature School, 8 min
- Vainona High School, 8 min
Books & libraries
- Colin Eglin Sea Point, 15 min
- Sea Point Public Library, 15 min
Culture & entertainment
- Cape Medical Museum, 15 min
- Everard Read Cape Town, 19 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Green Point, Cape Town at -33.9043, 18.4060. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 67 street intersections per km², and blocks average 89 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 Green Point, Cape Town
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 800 m around the centre of Green Point, Cape Town. Rings mark 400 m and 800 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Cape Town
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Mouille Point | 500 m | 60 |
| Three Anchor Bay | 1.1 km | 92 |
| De Waterkant | 1.8 km | 98 |
| Sea Point | 1.9 km | 92 |
| Bo-Kaap | 1.9 km | 94 |
| Tamboerskloof | 2.7 km | 87 |
| Fresnaye | 2.9 km | 77 |
| Gardens | 3.2 km | 93 |
See all 20 neighbourhoods of Cape Town ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Green Point, Cape Town
Is Green Point walkable?
Yes. Green Point in Cape Town has a walkability score of 80 out of 100 across the 800 m around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Green Point more walkable than the rest of Cape Town?
Green Point is more walkable than Cape Town as a whole: it scores 80, against 74 for the 5 km around Cape Town's centre. It is the 10th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Cape Town on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Cape Town?
Of the 20 Cape Town neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are De Waterkant (98), Bo-Kaap (94) and Gardens (93).
How is the walkability score of Green Point 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 Green Point it is the average of 50 points spread evenly across the 800 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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