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How walkable is Bur Dubai?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Bur Dubai has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 5th most walkable of the 17 neighbourhoods ranked in Dubai, which scores 72 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,632 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Bur Dubai. The nearest grocery is about 2 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks and culture & entertainment. It is weakest for schools.
Groceries
- Zain al madeena super market, 3 min
- Carefour Al Ghubaiba, 3 min
Restaurants & bars
- Kailash Parbat Dubai, 1 min
- Jabal Al Noor Cafeteria, 1 min
Shopping
- Rachna Boutique, 1 min
- Meena Jewellers, 1 min
Coffee
- Tea Junction Cafe, Bur Dubai, 1 min
- Cross Cultural Cafe and Bistro, 2 min
Banks
- HSBC, 9 min
- Commercial Bank of Dubai, 9 min
Parks
- حديقة برجمان, 19 min
- Baniyas Park, 19 min
Schools
- ZPHS Makloor, 25 min
- Cambridgeshire Nursery, 28 min
Books & libraries
- Dubai-UAE, 17 min
- ABU Dhabi Research & Document Center, 24 min
Culture & entertainment
- 迪拜博物馆, 2 min
- Dubai Museum, 3 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Bur Dubai at 25.2624, 55.2963. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 127 street intersections per km², and blocks average 87 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Bur Dubai
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Bur Dubai. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Dubai
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Al Rigga | 1.7 km | 94 |
| Al Karama | 1.8 km | 97 |
| Al Hudaiba | 2.8 km | 91 |
| Al Baraha | 3.1 km | 82 |
| Abu Hail | 4.2 km | 83 |
| Al Satwa | 5.1 km | 86 |
| Za'abeel | 5.9 km | 48 |
| Downtown Dubai | 7.7 km | 95 |
See all 17 neighbourhoods of Dubai ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Bur Dubai
Is Bur Dubai walkable?
Yes. Bur Dubai has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Bur Dubai more walkable than the rest of Dubai?
Bur Dubai is more walkable than Dubai as a whole: it scores 90, against 72 for the 5 km around Dubai's centre. It is the 5th most walkable of the 17 neighbourhoods ranked in Dubai on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Dubai?
Of the 17 Dubai neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Al Karama (97), Downtown Dubai (95) and Al Rigga (94).
How is the walkability score of Bur Dubai 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 Bur Dubai 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. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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