How the score works

The Night Activity Score (0 to 100) describes how much happens along a walking route at the hour you travel: places that are likely open, long stretches with none, help points nearby, main roads, transport, and how many turns you take.

It is not a safety rating. Busy streets are not always safe, and quiet streets are not always unsafe. No study we found shows that choosing a route by an app reduces harm. Use it as one input, and trust your own judgement.

What it is based on

• Street and place data from OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps.
• Most opening hours are estimated from the kind of place (a pharmacy is more likely open at night than a clothes shop). Only a small share are confirmed.
• Street lighting data is missing for most streets, so lighting is not part of the score.
• Camera locations are mapped by volunteers and are incomplete; they count for very little.

Your privacy

No account, no tracking. Your location is used in the browser and sent only to the server running this page, to find a route.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Places © Overture Maps Foundation. Tiles by OpenFreeMap.