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How walkable is Business Bay, Dubai?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Business Bay has a walkability score of 72 out of 100 across the 1.5 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the joint 12th most walkable of the 17 neighbourhoods ranked in Dubai, with 1 other, which scores 72 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
505 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Business Bay. The nearest grocery is about 8 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee and parks. It is weakest for banks, schools and books & libraries.
Groceries
- The Larder, 16 min
- W Mart Supermarket, 18 min
Restaurants & bars
- Vyne Restaurant & Bar, 3 min
- Aaliya Shisha Lounge, 3 min
Shopping
- Ezytronix-Emotorad UAE, 5 min
- Humanspace, 6 min
Coffee
- Risen Café and Artisanal Bakery, Business Bay, 3 min
- Maria's Coffee and Kitchen, 5 min
Banks
- Banque Banorient France, 21 min
- RAKBANK, 22 min
Parks
- Bayside Park 4, 7 min
- Action Hub, 16 min
Schools
- GEMS Our Own Indian School, 24 min
- دبي الدولية-القوز, 26 min
Books & libraries
- Science Publications, 26 min
Culture & entertainment
- The Other Office Karaoke, 15 min
- Honeycomb Hi-Fi, 18 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Business Bay, Dubai at 25.1795, 55.2684. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 48 street intersections per km², and blocks average 117 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 2%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Business Bay, Dubai
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.5 km around the centre of Business Bay, Dubai. Rings mark 750 m and 1.5 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Dubai
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown Dubai | 2 km | 95 |
| Al Wasl | 2.2 km | 86 |
| Za'abeel | 4.5 km | 48 |
| Al Satwa | 4.6 km | 86 |
| Al Hudaiba | 7.1 km | 91 |
| Al Karama | 8.5 km | 97 |
| Bur Dubai | 9.6 km | 90 |
| Al Rigga | 10.7 km | 94 |
See all 17 neighbourhoods of Dubai ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Business Bay, Dubai
Is Business Bay walkable?
Yes. Business Bay in Dubai has a walkability score of 72 out of 100 across the 1.5 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Business Bay more walkable than the rest of Dubai?
Business Bay is about as walkable as Dubai as a whole: it scores 72, against 72 for the 5 km around Dubai's centre. It is the joint 12th most walkable of the 17 neighbourhoods ranked in Dubai, with 1 other 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 Business Bay 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 Business Bay it is the average of 58 points spread evenly across the 1.5 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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