--- title: "Bur Dubai walkability score: 90/100 · How Walkable" description: "Bur Dubai scores 90/100 for walkability (Walker's Paradise). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Dubai." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-arab-emirates/dubai/bur-dubai updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [United Arab Emirates](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-arab-emirates) 3. [Dubai](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-arab-emirates/dubai) 4. Bur Dubai # How walkable is Bur Dubai? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 90 out of 100: Walker's Paradise Daily errands do not require a car. * #5 of 17 in Dubai * 72 Dubai overall * 89 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=25.26237&lon=55.29633&q=Bur%20Dubai%2C%20Dubai) ## 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 3.0 of 3 points * Madhoor Supermarket, 2 min * Zain al madeena super market, 3 min * Carefour Al Ghubaiba, 3 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * Smart Cook Restaurant Arjan, 1 min * Kailash Parbat Dubai, 1 min * Jabal Al Noor Cafeteria, 1 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Malabar Gold and Diamonds, 1 min * Rachna Boutique, 1 min * Meena Jewellers, 1 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Lassi Chowk Cafe, 1 min * Tea Junction Cafe, Bur Dubai, 1 min * Cross Cultural Cafe and Bistro, 2 min ### Banks 0.9 of 1 point * Emirates NBD, 7 min * HSBC, 9 min * Commercial Bank of Dubai, 9 min ### Parks 0.6 of 1 point * Mankhool Sand Park, 18 min * حديقة برجمان, 19 min * Baniyas Park, 19 min ### Schools 0.1 of 1 point * Circle Time - Al Karama Branch, 23 min * ZPHS Makloor, 25 min * Cambridgeshire Nursery, 28 min ### Books & libraries 0.8 of 1 point * Dubai Public Library Al Ras, 8 min * Dubai-UAE, 17 min * ABU Dhabi Research & Document Center, 24 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * Shreenathji Temple., 1 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Bur Dubai. 100% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 75, is 1 km to the north-west.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/united-arab-emirates/dubai/bur-dubai.svg?v=e0e8814bc152) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-arab-emirates/dubai/neighbourhoods#al-rigga) | 1.7 km | 94 | | [Al Karama](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-arab-emirates/dubai/neighbourhoods#al-karama) | 1.8 km | 97 | | [Al Hudaiba](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-arab-emirates/dubai/neighbourhoods#al-hudaiba) | 2.8 km | 91 | | [Al Baraha](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-arab-emirates/dubai/neighbourhoods#al-baraha) | 3.1 km | 82 | | [Abu Hail](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-arab-emirates/dubai/neighbourhoods#abu-hail) | 4.2 km | 83 | | [Al Satwa](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-arab-emirates/dubai/neighbourhoods#al-satwa) | 5.1 km | 86 | | [Za'abeel](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-arab-emirates/dubai/neighbourhoods#zaabeel) | 5.9 km | 48 | | [Downtown Dubai](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-arab-emirates/dubai/downtown-dubai) | 7.7 km | 95 | See [all 17 neighbourhoods of Dubai ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-arab-emirates/dubai/neighbourhoods). ## 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](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 Bur Dubai?" 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.