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The most-watched walking cities on YouTube

Which cities do people most want to walk through from their sofa or treadmill? We searched YouTube for a 4K walking tour of each of the 732 cities on Walking Atlas and added up the views of the most-watched results; 648 cities had enough videos to be ranked. The winner is Tokyo, Japan, followed by Rio de Janeiro and New York City.

648

cities ranked

7,154

walking tour videos counted

1.5B

views in total

23%

of all views go to the top 10 cities

The top 30

Views of the top walking tour results on YouTube for each city. A single viral video can lift a city a long way, so the ranking says as much about the creators who film a place as about the place itself. Each city links to its guide on Walking Atlas, with hand-picked walks you can watch right away.

Most-watched walking cities on YouTube, total views of the top walking tour results
  1. 1 Tokyo, Japan67M
  2. 2 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil64M
  3. 3 New York City, United States37M
  4. 4 Dubai, United Arab Emirates34M
  5. 5 London, United Kingdom33M
  6. 6 Moscow, Russia25M
  7. 7 Venice, Italy24M
  8. 8 Jerusalem, Israel22M
  9. 9 Seoul, South Korea22M
  10. 10 Paris, France22M
  11. 11 Positano, Italy22M
  12. 12 Interlaken, Switzerland22M
  13. 13 Amalfi, Italy21M
  14. 14 Rome, Italy21M
  15. 15 Krabi, Thailand20M
  16. 16 Liverpool, United Kingdom20M
  17. 17 Barcelona, Spain19M
  18. 18 Monte Carlo, Monaco19M
  19. 19 Capri, Italy17M
  20. 20 Vancouver, Canada17M
  21. 21 Bangkok, Thailand17M
  22. 22 Kyoto, Japan17M
  23. 23 Manila, Philippines16M
  24. 24 Cairo, Egypt16M
  25. 25 Mykonos, Greece15M
  26. 26 Mexico City, Mexico14M
  27. 27 Zermatt, Switzerland13M
  28. 28 Mumbai, India13M
  29. 29 Pattaya, Thailand13M
  30. 30 Kamakura, Japan13M

The leaders on each continent

Europe

  1. 1 London33M
  2. 2 Venice24M
  3. 3 Paris22M
  4. 4 Positano22M
  5. 5 Interlaken22M

Asia

  1. 1 Tokyo67M
  2. 2 Moscow25M
  3. 3 Seoul22M
  4. 4 Krabi20M
  5. 5 Bangkok17M

Middle East

  1. 1 Dubai34M
  2. 2 Jerusalem22M
  3. 3 Medina9.6M
  4. 4 Nazareth7.2M
  5. 5 Tel Aviv3.9M

Africa

  1. 1 Cairo16M
  2. 2 Marrakech4.5M
  3. 3 Alexandria3.3M
  4. 4 Fes3.3M
  5. 5 Casablanca3.2M

North America

  1. 1 New York City37M
  2. 2 Vancouver17M
  3. 3 Mexico City14M
  4. 4 Las Vegas12M
  5. 5 Atlanta10M

South America

  1. 1 Rio de Janeiro64M
  2. 2 Medellín7.3M
  3. 3 Lima7.1M
  4. 4 Cartagena5.3M
  5. 5 Mar del Plata4.9M

Oceania

  1. 1 Sydney12M
  2. 2 Melbourne2.8M
  3. 3 Newcastle2M
  4. 4 Gold Coast2M
  5. 5 Brisbane1.7M

Countries

Added up across all of our cities in each country, so countries with many cities on the site have an advantage. Italy leads, but the shape of each country is different: in some, one famous city takes almost all of the views, in others they are spread across many destinations. The share of the country's views that goes to its most-watched city is shown on hover.

Countries by total walking tour views across their cities
  1. 1 Italy161M
  2. 2 United States120M
  3. 3 Japan118M
  4. 4 United Kingdom87M
  5. 5 Brazil68M
  6. 6 Switzerland64M
  7. 7 Thailand57M
  8. 8 France51M
  9. 9 Canada44M
  10. 10 Spain43M
  11. 11 China43M
  12. 12 United Arab Emirates35M
  13. 13 Israel34M
  14. 14 Germany32M
  15. 15 South Korea30M

Where creators are filming now

For this part we used YouTube's normal search order instead of sorting by views. Across all cities, 47% of the top walking tour results were uploaded in the last 12 months. In these cities the share is the highest: most of what you find when you search is new, a sign that creators are actively filming there.

Cities with the highest share of walking tours uploaded in the last 12 months
  1. Nairobi, Kenya100%
  2. Haifa, Israel100%
  3. Isfahan, Iran94%
  4. Delhi, India94%
  5. Warsaw, Poland94%
  6. Tampere, Finland94%
  7. Tehran, Iran92%
  8. Odesa, Ukraine92%
  9. Tromsø, Norway92%
  10. Medina, Saudi Arabia91%
  11. Durban, South Africa90%
  12. Canggu, Indonesia90%
  13. Ghent, Belgium88%
  14. Kuta, Indonesia88%
  15. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia88%

Under the radar

Cities in the lower half of the ranking whose typical walking tour still gets a lot of views. Fewer creators film them, but the videos that exist are watched: a good place to start if you want somewhere less familiar.

Lower-ranked cities with the highest median views per walking tour
  1. Jasper, Canada56K / video
  2. San Miguel de Allende, Mexico45K / video
  3. Fethiye, Türkiye38K / video
  4. Inverness, United Kingdom38K / video
  5. Davao City, Philippines38K / video
  6. Nicosia, Cyprus37K / video
  7. Bari, Italy37K / video
  8. Paphos, Cyprus35K / video
  9. Haifa, Israel34K / video
  10. Marsa Alam, Egypt32K / video

How we measured this

On 2026-10-20 we searched YouTube (English, United States) for every city on Walking Atlas, sorted by view count: “"<city>" walk 4K”, adding the country name where two of our cities share a name. From the first page of results we kept videos that have the city name and the word “walk” or “stroll” in the title, are at least 3 minutes long and are not live streams, and added up their view counts. Cities with fewer than 5 such videos are left out. For the “filming now” section we ran a second search for “<city> <country> walking tour 4K” in YouTube's normal order and counted how many of the matching videos were less than a year old. Search results change from day to day and depend on language and location, and a city that shares its name with another place can pick up some unrelated videos, so treat the numbers as a snapshot, not an exact count. The ranking only covers cities that have a guide on Walking Atlas. We repeat the search from time to time and update this page.

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