How walkable is Old Kyiv?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Old Kyiv has a walkability score of 94 out of 100 across the 600 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Kyiv, which scores 72 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,728 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Old Kyiv. The nearest grocery is Велика Кишеня Експрес, about 6 minutes away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
- Молоко від фермера9 min
- Novus11 min
- Bar on 8th Hyatt Regency Kyiv3 min
- Lobby Lounge Bar3 min
- Isaia Napoli1 min
- Stefano Ricci1 min
- Buti Sofie4 min
- Кофе Хауз / Coffee House5 min
- World Bank Ukraine3 min
- Банкомат МТБ БАНК3 min
- Unnamed park3 min
- Сквер ім. Миколи Макаренка5 min
- P'titCREF6 min
- Школа современного массажа "Инкорте" / Inсorte, School of Contemporary massage7 min
- Chulan Books&Coffee8 min
- Видавництво Старого Лева9 min
- Museum of the History of Fashion of Marina Ivanova.4 min
- ІГРОЛЕНД4 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Old Kyiv at 50.4535, 30.5161. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 46 street intersections per km², and blocks average 125 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 4%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Old Kyiv
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 600 m around the centre of Old Kyiv. Rings mark 300 m and 600 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Kyiv
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Lypky | 1.5 km | 92 |
| Pechersk | 3.1 km | 84 |
| Pecherskyi District | 3.6 km | 75 |
| Obolon | 6.4 km | 79 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Kyiv page.
Questions about walking in Old Kyiv
Is Old Kyiv walkable?
Yes. Old Kyiv has a walkability score of 94 out of 100 across the 600 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Old Kyiv more walkable than the rest of Kyiv?
Old Kyiv is more walkable than Kyiv as a whole: it scores 94, against 72 for the 5 km around Kyiv's centre. It ranks 1st of the 5 Kyiv neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Kyiv?
Of the 5 Kyiv neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Old Kyiv (94), Lypky (92) and Pechersk (84).
How is the walkability score of Old Kyiv 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 Old Kyiv it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 600 m around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.