How walkable is Pecherskyi District?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Pecherskyi District has a walkability score of 75 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 5th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Kyiv, which scores 72 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
432 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Pecherskyi District. The nearest grocery is Pacific, about 10 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for shopping, banks and books & libraries.
- Фора15 min
- Велика Кишеня15 min
- Market Plaza6 min
- Львівські круасани11 min
- Pianofortefabryk AG C.Bechstein5 min
- Sewstar5 min
- Upgrade Coffe Bar9 min
- Lagom coffee10 min
- KredoBank / Кредобанк (Відділення №11)11 min
- ПриватБанк11 min
- Сквер дружби народів України та Азербайджана19 min
- Парк Вічної Слави21 min
- Creative Kids20 min
- Моя Школа20 min
- Магазин Киево-Печерской Лавры16 min
- Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design17 min
- Музей української діаспори15 min
- Ivan Honchar Museum16 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Pecherskyi District at 50.4287, 30.5490. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 34 street intersections per km², and blocks average 135 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 5%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Pecherskyi District
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 2 km around the centre of Pecherskyi District. Rings mark 1 km and 2 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Kyiv
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Pechersk | 500 m | 84 |
| Lypky | 2.1 km | 92 |
| Old Kyiv | 3.6 km | 94 |
| Obolon | 9.7 km | 79 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Kyiv page.
Questions about walking in Pecherskyi District
Is Pecherskyi District walkable?
Yes. Pecherskyi District in Kyiv has a walkability score of 75 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Pecherskyi District more walkable than the rest of Kyiv?
Pecherskyi District is more walkable than Kyiv as a whole: it scores 75, against 72 for the 5 km around Kyiv's centre. It ranks 5th 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 Pecherskyi District 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 Pecherskyi District it is the average of 48 points spread evenly across the 2 km 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.