The cities with the most drinking fountains in the world
29 October 2026 · Drinking fountains
Barcelona is the city with the most drinking fountains mapped on OpenStreetMap: 1,289 within 5 km of the centre, followed by Rome (1,062) and Yerevan (1,023).
For anyone walking, running or travelling with a refillable bottle, knowing where to find water along the way makes a real difference. We counted the drinking fountains mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers around the centre of 2,400 cities worldwide, all within the same 5 km circle, and ranked them.
The ranking
| # | City | Country | Drinking fountains |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barcelona | Spain | 1,289 |
| 2 | Rome | Italy | 1,062 |
| 3 | Yerevan | Armenia | 1,023 |
| 4 | Vienna | Austria | 980 |
| 5 | Nairobi | Kenya | 939 |
| 6 | Zurich | Switzerland | 878 |
| 7 | Paris | France | 866 |
| 8 | Valencia | Spain | 842 |
| 9 | Madrid | Spain | 768 |
| 10 | Bouaké | Côte d’Ivoire | 727 |
| 11 | Taipei | Taiwan | 705 |
| 12 | l'Hospitalet de Llobregat | Spain | 693 |
| 13 | Bilbao | Spain | 659 |
| 14 | Brisbane | Australia | 609 |
| 15 | Sydney | Australia | 591 |
| 16 | Ota | Japan | 580 |
| 17 | Turin | Italy | 556 |
| 18 | Budapest | Hungary | 537 |
| 19 | Milan | Italy | 507 |
| 20 | Melbourne | Australia | 499 |
How we counted
We counted the places in the “Drinking fountains” category in the SpotyMap database, which comes from OpenStreetMap (data from 21 October 2026), within a 5 km circle around the centre of each city (78.5 km²). The ranking includes cities with at least 250,000 inhabitants and capitals. If a city's centre falls inside the circle of another city already in the ranking, it isn't counted twice.
These numbers show how many places have been mapped on OpenStreetMap, not how many really exist: in some cities volunteers have mapped almost everything, in others a lot is still missing. If you know a place that isn't there, you can add it to OpenStreetMap: it will show up in SpotyMap after the next data update.
Find them near you
On SpotyMap you'll find “Drinking fountains” and 59 other categories of useful places, all over the world, starting from where you are. Before drinking, always check the signs on site: not every fountain is drinkable or working.
Sources
- Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL licence, processed by SpotyMap (data from 21 October 2026).