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Staying on Calle de las Huertas: hotels, metro and mapped bars
The short answer
Calle de las Huertas suits visitors who want sights such as CaixaForum Madrid within a 4-minute walk and accept dense mapped nightlife. OpenStreetMap lists 37 bars, pubs and nightclubs within 250 m, a high risk on our scale, and the west samples map 42 to 51. Skip it if early nights matter. The catch: the eastern samples map far fewer venues.
Quick facts
- Night-noise risk
- High
- 37 bars, pubs and clubs within 250 m
- Climb
- 36 m
- 635 to 671 m across 9 points
- Metro walk
- 5 min
- to Atocha impares
- Hotels mapped
- 30
- within 500 m in OpenStreetMap
Who it suits, who should skip it
Good for
- Visitors who want CaixaForum Madrid and the Monumento a Velázquez within a 4-minute walk
- Travellers happy to have mapped bars, pubs and nightclubs close by in the evening
- Guests who prefer to compare hotels within a 2- to 8-minute walk of one anchor point
Skip it if
- You need early nights and a low count of mapped venues around the hotel
- You want every sampled point at near-identical height: the spread is 36 m
- You expect the metro to be level with the street: the sampled difference is 14 m
Which side of the street to choose
OpenStreetMap lists 30 hotels within 500 m of the anchor on Calle de las Huertas. The nearest are Radisson Blu Hotel, Madrid Prado at 63 m, Mercure Madrid Centro at 116 m and Hotel México at 168 m. Names, addresses and attributes are as tagged and not verified, so check the exact frontage with each hotel.
The compass samples show the trade-off. North, north-east and east map 4, 1 and 1 bars within 250 m, while west, south-west and north-west map 51, 42 and 42. A hotel east of the anchor sits nearer the lower counts; one to the west sits nearer the densest cluster. Samples are measurement points, not named streets.
Metro and walking times from the anchor
The nearest mapped metro entrance, Atocha impares, is 271 m from the anchor, about a 5-minute walk. The data holds no line names for it, so check the operator map for the lines you need. This is an estimate from the anchor, not a hotel-to-metro route.
Walks use 1.3 times the straight line at 80 m a minute. By that estimate CaixaForum Madrid is 224 m away, 4 minutes, and the Monumento a Velázquez is 194 m, also 4 minutes. Hotel Catalonia Atocha is 282 m from the anchor, about 5 minutes.
Noise at night: what the map shows
Within 250 m of the anchor, OpenStreetMap lists 25 bars, 8 pubs and 4 nightclubs: 37 venues, a high risk on our scale. This counts mapped venues. It does not measure sound, opening hours, terraces or traffic, so treat it as a proxy rather than a reading.
The south sample maps 15 venues and the south-east sample 3. Room Mate Alba carries an address on Calle de las Huertas itself, 482 m from the anchor. Ask any hotel which way a room faces before reserving, because the map cannot tell you that.
Hills and walking around the street
The anchor sits at 649 m above sea level. Sampled points range from 635 m in the south-east to 671 m in the north-west, a 36 m spread. That describes sampled elevation, not the climb on any particular route or step-free access.
Atocha impares is sampled at 663 m, a 14 m difference from the anchor. The higher samples lie west and north-west, the same side that maps the most venues, so the busiest mapped blocks are also the higher ground.
Hotels mapped nearby
30 hotels are tagged in OpenStreetMap within 500 m of Calle de las Huertas; the nearest 12 are shown. Names, stars and addresses are exactly as tagged, nearest first.
Radisson Blu Hotel, Madrid Prado
No stars tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de Moratín 52 28014 Madrid
63 m away, about 2 min on foot
Mercure Madrid Centro
No stars tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de Lope de Vega 49 28014 Madrid
116 m away, about 2 min on foot
Hotel México
No stars tagged in OpenStreetMap
No street address tagged in OpenStreetMap
168 m away, about 3 min on foot
NH Paseo del Prado
★★★★★Stars as tagged in OpenStreetMap
Plaza de Cánovas del Castillo 4 28014 Madrid
201 m away, about 4 min on foot
ITC Mora
★★Stars as tagged in OpenStreetMap
Paseo del Prado 32 28014 Madrid
222 m away, about 4 min on foot
Atocha Hotel Madrid, Tapestry Collection by Hilton
★★★★Stars as tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de Atocha 107 28012 Madrid
254 m away, about 5 min on foot
Atocha by Meliá
★★★★Stars as tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de Atocha 83
261 m away, about 5 min on foot
Casa de las Artes
★★★★Stars as tagged in OpenStreetMap
No street address tagged in OpenStreetMap
267 m away, about 5 min on foot
Hotel Catalonia Atocha
No stars tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de Atocha 81 28012 Madrid
282 m away, about 5 min on foot
Urban Sea
No stars tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de Atocha 113 28012 Madrid
284 m away, about 5 min on foot
Urbansea Atocha 113
★Stars as tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de Atocha 113 28012 Madrid
289 m away, about 5 min on foot
DoubleTree by Hilton Madrid - Prado
★★★★Stars as tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de San Agustín 3 28014 Madrid
296 m away, about 5 min on foot
Where it is
The area this guide covers: The area within roughly 500 m of the geocoded point on Calle de las Huertas, Barrio de las Letras, Centro, Madrid, sampled at eight compass points around it. An editorial outline, not an official district line.
Nearby
Sights on foot
- José de Espronceda
- José María Manresa
- Carlos Morla Linch y Núñez Morgado
- Pedro Poveda
- Monumento a Velázquez
- CaixaForum Madrid
- Estatua de Murillo
- San Antonio del Prado
More street guides nearby
How these numbers were measured
| Sampled point | Venues within 250 m | Elevation |
|---|---|---|
| Calle de las HuertasThe anchor: distances on this page start here | 3725 bars, 8 pubs, 4 nightclubs | 649 m |
| North ring sample | 4 | 658 m |
| North-east ring sample | 1 | 660 m |
| East ring sample | 1 | 660 m |
| South-east ring sample | 3 | 635 m |
| South ring sample | 15 | 643 m |
| South-west ring sample | 42 | 664 m |
| West ring sample | 51 | 669 m |
| North-west ring sample | 42 | 671 m |
- Night-noise risk counts places tagged as bars, pubs and nightclubs in OpenStreetMap within 250 m: low under 8, medium from 8 or with any nightclub, high from 25 or with 3 nightclubs. It counts mapped venues; it does not measure sound.
- Walking times take the straight-line distance, add 30% for the street network and assume 80 m a minute, rounded up. They are estimates, not routes.
- Climb is the spread between the highest and the lowest sampled point in Copernicus DEM GLO-90 via the Open-Meteo Elevation API. Terrain models average the ground into cells, so a few metres either way are within their error.
- Searched on 13 Oct 2026: the metro within 1.2 km, hotels within 500 m. A place missing from OpenStreetMap is missing here too.
Questions and answers
How far is the nearest metro from Calle de las Huertas?
Atocha impares is 271 m from the anchor, about a 5-minute walk by our estimate. It is not measured from any hotel, and the data lists no line names.
Is Calle de las Huertas busy at night?
OpenStreetMap lists 37 bars, pubs and nightclubs within 250 m, a high risk on our scale. This is a count of mapped venues, not a sound measurement.
Which hotels are closest to the anchor?
Radisson Blu Hotel, Madrid Prado is 63 m away, then Mercure Madrid Centro at 116 m and Hotel México at 168 m. Check details with each hotel directly.
Is the area hilly?
Sampled elevation runs from 635 m to 671 m, a 36 m spread. That is a range across sample points, not the gradient of any walking route.