--- title: "Green Point, Cape Town walkability score: 80/100" description: "Green Point in Cape Town scores 80/100 for walkability (Very Walkable). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Cape Town." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/cape-town/green-point updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [South Africa](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa) 3. [Cape Town](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/cape-town) 4. Green Point # How walkable is Green Point, Cape Town? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 80 out of 100: Very Walkable Most errands can be accomplished on foot. * #10 of 20 in Cape Town * 74 Cape Town overall * 81 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-33.90426&lon=18.40597&q=Green%20Point%2C%20Cape%20Town) ## 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 2.8 of 3 points * Kauai The Point Im, 6 min * Woolworths, 8 min * Green Point Kwikspar, 9 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.6 of 3 points * Saggy Stone Hamilton, 3 min * Nu Health Food, 6 min * The Hussar Grill, 7 min ### Shopping 1.7 of 2 points * Toys R Us, 8 min * John O'Connor Cycles, 8 min * Pharmacy at SPAR, 8 min ### Coffee 1.7 of 2 points * Bootlegger Green Point, 7 min * Park Cafe, 9 min * Cushty Neighbourhood Deli, 9 min ### Banks 0.1 of 1 point * Capitec Bank, 22 min * First National Bank, 23 min * Standard Bank, 23 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Green Point Park, 5 min * Green Point Park Dog Park, 9 min * Prom Park, 12 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Angela's Hoslaing Play Sense, 3 min * Blooming Good Nature School, 8 min * Vainona High School, 8 min ### Books & libraries 0.7 of 1 point * Woodstock Library, 10 min * Colin Eglin Sea Point, 15 min * Sea Point Public Library, 15 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.6 of 1 point * Fort Wynard, 12 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 800 m around the centre of Green Point. 78% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 37, is 800 m to the north-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/south-africa/cape-town/green-point.svg?v=4cacfb4c6b02) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/cape-town/neighbourhoods#mouille-point) | 500 m | 60 | | [Three Anchor Bay](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/cape-town/neighbourhoods#three-anchor-bay) | 1.1 km | 92 | | [De Waterkant](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/cape-town/neighbourhoods#de-waterkant) | 1.8 km | 98 | | [Sea Point](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/cape-town/sea-point) | 1.9 km | 92 | | [Bo-Kaap](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/cape-town/bo-kaap) | 1.9 km | 94 | | [Tamboerskloof](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/cape-town/neighbourhoods#tamboerskloof) | 2.7 km | 87 | | [Fresnaye](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/cape-town/neighbourhoods#fresnaye) | 2.9 km | 77 | | [Gardens](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/cape-town/neighbourhoods#gardens) | 3.2 km | 93 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Cape Town ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/cape-town/neighbourhoods). ## 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](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 Green Point, Cape Town?" 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.