Living · On foot
The 14 official Vienna city hiking trails, walked with data.
Vienna maintains 14 marked hiking trails inside the city limits: from the vineyards of the Kahlenberg to the pine woods of the south. The routes here are the official ones, unchanged.
What we add is what the city does not publish: elevation profiles, calculated walking times, how to get there by transit, and what living along each trail is like.
Trail 1
Trail 1a
Trail 2
Trail 3
Trail 4
Trail 4a
Trail 5
Trail 6
Trail 7
Trail 8
Trail 9
Trail 10
Trail 11
Trail 12Why hiking trails on a housing site?
Recreation from your front door
A marked trail within walking distance changes how a place lives. These pages show which neighbourhoods have one.
Elevation, not just kilometres
An 11 km trail with 300 m of climbing is a different afternoon than a flat loop. We measure both, from open elevation data.
Transit to every trailhead
Each trail lists the best stop for getting there, picked from the real timetables, plus the way back on one-way routes.
About the trails
Are these the official routes?
Yes. The geometry comes from the City of Vienna’s open-data trail register (CC BY 4.0), unchanged: we only joined the published segments. Waymarks on the ground follow the same lines.
Where do the walking times come from?
The city’s dataset contains no times, so we calculate them with the standard hiking formula: 4 km/h on the flat plus one hour per 300 metres of climbing. The elevation itself is sampled every 25 m from open terrain data.
Which trail is the easiest, which the hardest?
The Prater loop (trail 9) and the Breitenlee loop (trail 10) are almost completely flat. The longest is the Wienerberg loop (trail 12) at about 19 km; the biggest climbs are on trails 1, 1a, 2 and 6 with roughly 300 m of ascent or more.
A trail on your doorstep?
Search flats along any of these routes, or start with the shorter neighbourhood walks: every stretch backed by real data.
Search flats in Vienna →The neighbourhood walks →Explore the atlas →
Routes: City of Vienna, data.gv.at (WANDERWEGEOGD, CC BY 4.0), unchanged; segments joined. Preview maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, © CARTO. Elevation from open terrain data; walking times calculated (standard hiking formula), not official figures.