How far is your park

Your street's park#

Type a street. You get the minutes on foot to the nearest named park, the distance in metres and the park itself — with a button that takes you to it on the map. The number is the minimum across the street's addresses: the closest point sets it.

Street

Try: Moșilor Victoriei Milcov

Example street

How Bucharest streets compare

The city median is 5.8 minutes — half of the 112,894 analysed points are closer to a park, half farther. 1.0% of streets are at zero: 0 minutes.

The farthest from a park is Strada Milcov: 74.4 minutes (5,954 metres) to Parcul Humulești, across 123 addresses. At zero sit 25 streets with at least 20 addresses; we show the one with the most addresses, Calea Victoriei: 0.0 minutes, across 272 addresses, by Parcul Nicolae Iorga.

The numbers measure the straight line to the edge of the nearest named park on the map: 169 parks and gardens, no unnamed ones, no shut-gated ones. A minute means 80 metres of easy walking.

What the minutes mean#

Every street and every map cell is coloured by the minutes on foot to the nearest named park; the bands are the same everywhere. A minute means 80 metres of easy walking, straight line — no detours, no crossings.

Band	Minutes	What it looks like
At zero	0 minutes	Calea Victoriei sits here, at 0.0 minutes across 272 addresses. 1.0% of measured streets are at zero.
Close	0–5 minutes	Șoseaua Mihai Bravu (0.3 minutes) and Smârdan (2.1 minutes) sit here.
Nearby	5–10 minutes	The city median (5.8 minutes) sits here: 73.4% of analysed points are within 10 minutes of a park.
Far	10–15 minutes	Strada Ropotului (14.0 minutes) sits here.
Very far	15–30 minutes	Șoseaua Gheorghe Ionescu Sisești (20.0 minutes) sits here.
Desert	over 30 minutes	Strada Milcov sits here, at 74.4 minutes — the farthest of the streets with at least 20 addresses.

The minute is our own reckoning: 80 metres, an easy city pace, the same for every street.

The bands are this analysis's cuts, fitted to the spread of minutes: “at zero” means 0.0 after rounding, not that the street touches the park; “desert” above 30 minutes. The upper bound belongs to the band: 5.0 minutes falls in “Close”. Every ranking shows the number to one decimal.

How it is measured#

Each street takes its park from around its addresses: for every point in the index, the straight-line distance to the edge of the nearest named park; the street's number is the minimum — the closest point sets it. The index keeps at most 60 points per street — 602 streets hit the cap — and the card shows indexed addresses, not evaluated points.

The parks are the 169 named ones on OpenStreetMap — parks and gardens inside Bucharest; The 9 same-name doubles were merged, keeping the largest polygon. Left out are 31 named ones outside the city (32 polygons), 1,215 unnamed ones, which cannot be searched, and 2 with no usable geometry. Cotroceni and Sala Palatului are shut-gated on the map, and a campus, a school and a weather station are institutional yards — 5 removed, all counted.

A street with under 3 addresses in the index gets no number; 506 streets stayed unmeasured — they show as such, not as zero. City shares are computed over 112,894 analysed points. Sector medians use the points inside each sector's ring; 3,958 points fall in no ring but count toward the city.

Limits: the line is straight — detours, fences and boulevards with no crossing are invisible, so the minutes are a floor under the real walk. Some gardens charge entry or keep hours. And maps age: a park opened after the extract is missing until the next one.

Sources#

Data

• OpenStreetMap: addresses and building outlines, reused from the verdele chain (ODbL)
• OpenStreetMap: park polygons and sector rings, fetched via Overpass, excluding the unnamed and the shut-gated ones (ODbL)

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