The street matters more than the district
A leafy avenue and a treeless canyon can sit in the same district. Check the map above for the exact address: every wohnwahn listing shows the street trees around it.
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Where is Vienna greenest to live?
Vienna is greenest in Leopoldstadt, Hietzing and Döbling.
“Green” is easy to claim. wohnwahn measures it: the proximity to real green spaces, parks, woods and meadows, for every inhabited 250 m cell. On top of that the official tree cadastre: in the greenest district there are 207 street trees within 300 m of the typical home.
And the district average deceives: large outer districts look green because woods, fields and floodplains at the edge lift the percentage, exactly where almost no one lives. wohnwahn measures the green at your home, not at the district’s rim.
Vienna’s greenest districts
Ranked by the median green-space proximity of inhabited residential cells, so the green that people actually live next to. Linked: the full district profile in the atlas.
- 1Leopoldstadt102085green score207 street trees in 300 m
- 2Hietzing113068green score151 street trees in 300 m
- 3Döbling119064green score108 street trees in 300 m
Green-space proximity (parks, woods, meadows) per 250 m cell, from OpenStreetMap · as of: September 2026
- 4Hernals117063green score
- 5Brigittenau120062green score
- 6Penzing114062green score
- 7Favoriten110061green score
- 8Währing118050green score
- 9Donaustadt122047green score
- 10Simmering111046green score
- 11Liesing123039green score
- 12Floridsdorf121037green score
- 13Meidling112030green score
- 14Landstraße103026green score
- 15Ottakring116023green score
- 16Innere Stadt101010green score
- 17Alsergrund10904green score
- 180green score
- 19Margareten10500green score
- 20Mariahilf10600green score
- 21Wieden10400green score
- 22Josefstadt10800green score
- 23Neubau10700green score
Method: proximity to real green spaces (parks, woods, meadows from OpenStreetMap) per inhabited 250 m cell, bigger and closer green weighs more, clipped to the real district boundary. Deliberately NOT the district green-area percentage that the usual rankings use: that figure is inflated by woods, fields and floodplain at the unbuilt edge and says nothing about where people live. The number next to each district is the median street-tree count as extra context. Prices: asking prices per m² (condos), immopreise.at / derStandard-Preisspiegel, as of Dezember 2025.
Homes in the green
Currently 1,968 listings sit on wohnwahn in a genuinely green spot, greenest first. Measure: tree register, street trees within 300 m. Each card shows the value at its address, and the “Lots of green” filter in the search decides by the same measure.
814 trees1110 SimmeringMY Lory | in the heart of Simmering | 3-room | penthouse with 2 terraces | available from January€ 1,099/month · 3 rm · 55 m²
528 trees1210 Floridsdorf3 rooms / partially furnished / available immediately / 21st district€ 1,190/month · 3 rm · 73 m²
199 trees1020 LeopoldstadtApartment directly at U1 Nestroyplatz - open-ended€ 1,199/month · 3 rm · 90 m²3 listingsSee all matching listings →
The green map of Vienna
Dark green means a lot of park, woodland or meadow nearby. Every square is an inhabited 250 m cell with its green-space proximity score (bigger and closer green counts more).
Only inhabited cells are coloured. This measures proximity to green spaces per home; the street trees at each address are shown on the listing pages. Tap the map for the green score at that exact spot.
Green and still central
Green usually means the edge of town. These districts prove you can have both: a high green score AND within 25 minutes of Stephansplatz by transit.
How to find a genuinely green flat
Green also means cooler
Street trees measurably cool their surroundings in summer. If you care about heat, green and cool go together, the cool-living page maps the heat load next to the green.
Courtyard trees don’t show on the street count
The cadastre counts public street trees. A quiet green courtyard is a bonus the number can’t see, worth asking the provider which way the flat faces.
Park nearby beats a few street trees
A home at the edge of the Prater or Lainzer Tiergarten is greener than its street-tree count suggests. Use the “What’s here?” click on the search map to see parks and water around an address.
Frequently asked questions
Which is the greenest district in Vienna?
By green-space proximity it is Leopoldstadt (1020): the typical home there scores 85/100 for nearby parks, woods and meadows, ahead of Hietzing and Döbling. Source: OpenStreetMap green spaces, evaluated per 250 m cell.
Is Donaustadt or Floridsdorf really green, or does the statistic mislead?
The usual district rankings use the green-area percentage, and there large outer districts score high because a third of their area is floodplain (Lobau), farmland and unbuilt land at the edge, where almost no one lives. That number says nothing about the green next to your home. wohnwahn instead measures the green space within walking distance of each inhabited spot, so a densely built block in a “green” district shows up honestly as what it is.
Do parks and woods count, or only street trees?
The ranking is built on real green spaces, parks, woods and meadows within walking distance, which is what most people mean by “living green”. In addition, every listing shows the public street trees around the exact address from the City of Vienna tree register, as a second, concrete signal.
Where do you live green AND close to the centre?
Brigittenau for example: a high green score and still ≈ 14 minutes from Stephansplatz by transit. Green and central is rarer than green-and-far, but the data shows where the combination exists.
Do street trees really make a difference?
Yes, measurably: trees provide shade and evaporative cooling and improve air and well-being. That’s why wohnwahn shows the trees around every address and why green overlaps with the cool-living ranking.
How current is the tree data?
Green spaces from OpenStreetMap, street trees from the City of Vienna tree register, evaluated per inhabited 250 m cell, refreshed monthly (as of September 2026).
Related topics
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How wohnwahn rates locations →Green keeps it cooler: cool living in Vienna →Quiet living →Commuting to Vienna →Affordable living →Living by the water →Family-friendly →Near the metro →Wine & Heuriger →Sunny living →
Sources: green spaces: OpenStreetMap · City of Vienna tree register · transit: own routing on the Wiener Linien and ÖBB timetables · prices: immopreise.at / derStandard-Preisspiegel. Refreshed monthly.