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title: "How Walkable: walkability score for any address on Earth"
description: "Check the walkability score of any address on Earth, free. See the groceries, cafés, parks and schools within a walk, scored 0 to 100 from open map data."
url: https://howwalkable.com/
updated: 2026-10-22
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

# How walkable is any address on Earth?

Search an address or click the map. The score counts the groceries, cafés, shops, parks and schools within a 30 minute walk, and how easy the streets make it to reach them.


[The world's most walkable cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) · [How the score works](https://howwalkable.com/methodology) · [About](https://howwalkable.com/about) · [Use it in ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6accc634bcf8819189c1bcaf0e227f0f)

## Most walkable large cities

*   [#1 Paris, France: 99](https://howwalkable.com/cities/france/paris)
*   [#2 Tokyo, Japan: 98](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/tokyo)
*   [#2 London, United Kingdom: 98](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/london)
*   [#4 Istanbul, Turkey: 97](https://howwalkable.com/cities/turkey/istanbul)
*   [#5 São Paulo, Brazil: 95](https://howwalkable.com/cities/brazil/sao-paulo)
*   [#5 Mexico City, Mexico: 95](https://howwalkable.com/cities/mexico/mexico-city)
*   [#7 Athens, Greece: 94](https://howwalkable.com/cities/greece/athens)
*   [#7 Osaka, Japan: 94](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/osaka)

[All 690 cities ranked](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 

## How the walkability score works

The score runs from 0 to 100 and asks one question: can you run your daily errands on foot from here? It counts the places people walk to most, in nine categories: groceries, restaurants and bars, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, bookshops and libraries, and culture.

A place earns its full points within a 5 minute walk (400 m), fades to 12% of them at 20 minutes and stops counting at 30 minutes (2.4 km). Walking distance follows the street grid, so a sparse grid of long blocks and cul-de-sacs costs up to 20% of the score.

*   90+ Walker's Paradise: daily errands do not require a car.
*   70+ Very Walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
*   50+ Somewhat Walkable: some errands can be done on foot.
*   0+ Car-Dependent: most or all errands need a car.

Places come from the Overture Maps Foundation and streets from OpenStreetMap, the same open data for every country, so a score in Lagos means the same as one in Lyon. At North American addresses the score lands within a few points of Walk Score; the [accuracy page](https://howwalkable.com/accuracy) has the comparison and the [methodology](https://howwalkable.com/methodology) has every weight.

Place and street data © [OpenStreetMap contributors](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright), [Overture Maps Foundation](https://overturemaps.org). Search by [Geoapify](https://www.geoapify.com/) and [Photon](https://photon.komoot.io). Scores and text are [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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.