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How walkable is Pacific Beach, San Diego?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Pacific Beach has a walkability score of 79 out of 100 across the 1 km around its center, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the joint 9th most walkable of the 19 neighborhoods ranked in San Diego, with 1 other, which scores 65 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
690 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the center of Pacific Beach. The nearest grocery is about 6 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Vons, 8 min
- Honeybees, 9 min
Restaurants & bars
- KFC, 2 min
- Valerie's Taco Shop - Pacific Beach, 2 min
Shopping
- Pacific Beach Ace Hardware, 2 min
- San Diego Motorsport Rental, 2 min
Coffee
- Starbucks, 2 min
- Coffee Cycle Roasting, 2 min
Banks
- U.S. Bank Branch, 6 min
- Union Bank, 6 min
Parks
- Crown Point, 20 min
- Kate O Sessions Memorial Park, 24 min
Schools
- Crown Point Junior Music Academy, 9 min
- Sandbox by the Sea Preschool, 17 min
Books & libraries
- San Diego Public Library - Pacific Beach/Taylor, 18 min
- Pacific Beach Library, 18 min
Culture & entertainment
- SeaWorld San Diego, 7 min
- Exuberant Theatre Company, 11 min
Measured from the mapped center of Pacific Beach, San Diego at 32.7978, -117.2403. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the center there are about 65 street intersections per km², and blocks average 122 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 Pacific Beach, San Diego
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the center of Pacific Beach, San Diego. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighborhoods in San Diego
| Neighborhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Clairemont | 5.9 km | 65 |
| Ocean Beach | 5.9 km | 70 |
| Old Town of San Diego | 6.2 km | 79 |
| Linda Vista | 6.9 km | 49 |
| Point Loma | 7.9 km | 52 |
| Mission Valley | 8.8 km | 80 |
| Hillcrest | 9.2 km | 86 |
| Bankers Hill | 10.7 km | 88 |
See all 19 neighborhoods of San Diego ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Pacific Beach, San Diego
Is Pacific Beach walkable?
Yes. Pacific Beach in San Diego has a walkability score of 79 out of 100 across the 1 km around its center, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Pacific Beach more walkable than the rest of San Diego?
Pacific Beach is more walkable than San Diego as a whole: it scores 79, against 65 for the 5 km around San Diego's center. It is the joint 9th most walkable of the 19 neighborhoods ranked in San Diego, with 1 other on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighborhoods in San Diego?
Of the 19 San Diego neighborhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are the Gaslamp Quarter (98), Cortez Hill (97) and Little Italy (94).
How is the walkability score of Pacific Beach 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 Pacific Beach it is the average of 60 points spread evenly across the 1 km around its mapped center, 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. Neighborhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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