--- title: "Pacific Beach, San Diego walkability score: 79/100" description: "Pacific Beach in San Diego scores 79/100 for walkability (Very Walkable): what's within a walk and how it compares with San Diego." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-diego/pacific-beach updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [United States](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states) 3. [San Diego](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-diego) 4. Pacific Beach # How walkable is Pacific Beach, San Diego? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 79 out of 100: Very Walkable Most errands can be accomplished on foot. * #9 of 19 tied, in San Diego * 65 San Diego overall * 93 at the center [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=32.79783&lon=-117.24032&q=Pacific%20Beach%2C%20San%20Diego) ## 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 2.8 of 3 points * Trader Joe's, 6 min * Vons, 8 min * Honeybees, 9 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * Wendy's, 1 min * KFC, 2 min * Valerie's Taco Shop - Pacific Beach, 2 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * 7-Eleven, 1 min * Pacific Beach Ace Hardware, 2 min * San Diego Motorsport Rental, 2 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Ocean Cafe, 1 min * Starbucks, 2 min * Coffee Cycle Roasting, 2 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * US Bank, 6 min * U.S. Bank Branch, 6 min * Union Bank, 6 min ### Parks 0.9 of 1 point * Fannie and William Payne Joint-Use Field, 7 min * Crown Point, 20 min * Kate O Sessions Memorial Park, 24 min ### Schools 0.8 of 1 point * Pacific Beach Middle School, 8 min * Crown Point Junior Music Academy, 9 min * Sandbox by the Sea Preschool, 17 min ### Books & libraries 0.8 of 1 point * Pennywise Books, 9 min * San Diego Public Library - Pacific Beach/Taylor, 18 min * Pacific Beach Library, 18 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * Legend Records, 5 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the center of Pacific Beach. 71% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 46, is 850 m to the south-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/united-states/san-diego/pacific-beach.svg?v=6ef62d8a2cd6) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-diego/neighbourhoods#clairemont) | 5.9 km | 65 | | [Ocean Beach](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-diego/neighbourhoods#ocean-beach) | 5.9 km | 70 | | [Old Town of San Diego](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-diego/neighbourhoods#old-town-of-san-diego) | 6.2 km | 79 | | [Linda Vista](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-diego/neighbourhoods#linda-vista) | 6.9 km | 49 | | [Point Loma](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-diego/point-loma) | 7.9 km | 52 | | [Mission Valley](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-diego/neighbourhoods#mission-valley) | 8.8 km | 80 | | [Hillcrest](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-diego/hillcrest) | 9.2 km | 86 | | [Bankers Hill](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-diego/neighbourhoods#bankers-hill) | 10.7 km | 88 | See [all 19 neighborhoods of San Diego ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-diego/neighbourhoods). ## 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](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighborhood 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 Pacific Beach, San Diego?" 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.