Cities you can see on foot in a day
Some cities hand you everything within a twenty-minute walk; others scatter it across a region. This is that difference, measured. Each figure is the length of a single route that starts at the city centre and passes every mapped landmark once.
Shortest routes first
- London, United Kingdom14 landmarks840 m
- Rome, Italy14 landmarks900 m
- Tallinn, Estonia14 landmarks1.2 km
- Stockholm, Sweden14 landmarks1.2 km
- Valletta, Malta14 landmarks1.4 km
- Prague, Czech Republic14 landmarks1.5 km
- Oslo, Norway14 landmarks1.5 km
- Mexico City, Mexico14 landmarks1.5 km
- Dublin, Ireland14 landmarks1.6 km
- Ottawa, Canada14 landmarks1.6 km
- Riga, Latvia14 landmarks1.6 km
- Belgrade, Serbia14 landmarks1.6 km
How this was calculated
Landmarks come from Wikipedia's geosearch around each place's centre — only articles that carry real coordinates. The visiting order is computed (nearest-neighbour, then a 2-opt pass to remove crossings), always starting from the centre, and the figure shown is that route's total length. Only places with at least eight mapped landmarks are ranked, so a short route means “compact” rather than “we found three things”. Distances are straight-line: the free mapping stack behind this site has no routing engine, so real walking distances will be somewhat longer.
Sources
Every figure above is computed from these sources at generation time. Where a place had no verifiable data, it was left out rather than estimated.