Rue do Senado in Rio de Janeiro takes the top spot in Time Out’s annual list of the World’s Coolest Streets, followed by Orange Street in Osaka, Rua do Bonjardim in Porto, Fanghua Street in Chengdu and Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal
Time Out released its fourth annual list of the Coolest Streets in the World today. It is a ranking that highlights the world’s most exciting stretches of city life where city-dwellers and visitors alike dine, explore and have fun. This year, Rua do Senado in Rio de Janeiro is taking the top spot.
With its historic townhouses and traditional bars, Rua do Senado is the first street in South America to top this Time Out list. Once known for its antique shops and bohemian vibe, the street is undergoing a stylish revival and now pulses with a new wave of energy. Rua do Senado is known for hosting the lively Samba do Armazém Senado sessions on Saturdays, while offering a wide array of restaurants, shops and bars, and art collective Solar dos Abacaxis, which is located in a former 1912 factory.
Each year, Time Out – the global brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city – curates its Coolest Streets list. To come up with the ranking, Time Out’s global network of local editors and experts nominated the Coolest Street in their city right now, based on their hyperlocal insights and expertise. Time Out’s global travel team then narrowed the nominations down and ranked each street against criteria including food, drink, fun, art, culture, nightlife and community vibes – all the factors which Time Out believes make cities, and spots within them, great places to live in and explore.
Orange Street in Osaka is second on this year’s Time Out ranking – originally an antiques hub, it spent the 2010s as a destination for international hype culture with global streetwear brands setting up shop. In 2025, it has come full circle; reclaimed by Japanese labels and with vintage furniture and clothes shops still a big part of the mix, walking its length feels like flipping through different chapters of Osaka’s history.
At No. 3 is Rua do Bonjardim in Porto, which has been marked as having everything it takes to become the city’s next must-explore area: door after door, new and old businesses add colour and character to this nearly one-kilometre-long street; there are old-school grocers and legendary restaurants famous for their bifanas.
Fanghua Street in Chengdu is at No. 4 on Time Out’s ranking as the go-to strip for people-watching, coffee sipping and boutique browsing – the vibe here is a mix of retro Chengdu life and youthful, design-forward energy. Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal rounds out the Top 5 with its architectural gems, indie fashion boutiques and many restaurants.
Grace Beard, Travel Editor at Time Out added: “Time Out’s annual ranking of the World’s Coolest Streets is a celebration of community and creativity at its very best. Whether it’s a canal-side stretch or a major thoroughfare, every street on the list is teeming with local life, from independent businesses and excellent food and drink to world-class nightlife and culture. Far from generic hipster hubs, these streets tell the story of their cities, encapsulating exactly what makes them so unique and worth exploring.”
Here’s the top 10 of Time Out’s Coolest Streets in the World right now – find the full list of 31 here, featuring streets all over the world:
Rio de Janeiro: Rua do Senado (Brazil)
Osaka: Orange Street (Japan)
Porto: Rua do Bonjardim (Portugal)
Chengdu: Fanghua Street (China)
Montreal: Sherbrooke Street West (Canada)
Brisbane: Montague Road (Australia)
Berlin: Maybachufer (Germany)
Thessaloniki: Olympou Street (Greece)
New York City: Orchard Street (USA)
Ho Chi Minh City: Vinh Khanh Street (Vietnam)
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Time Out Group is a global media and hospitality brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city through Time Out Media and Time Out Market. Time Out launched in London in 1968 to help people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the city – today it is the only global brand dedicated to city life. Expert journalists curate and create content about the best things to do, see and eat across over 350 cities in over 50 countries, and across a unique multi-platform model spanning both digital and physical channels. Rooted in the Time Out brand, Time Out Market is the world’s first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city’s best chefs, restaurateurs and cultural experiences together under one roof. The portfolio includes 13 Markets in cities such as Lisbon, New York and Dubai, and several new locations with expected opening dates in 2026 and beyond, in addition to a pipeline of further locations in advanced discussions. Time Out Group PLC, listed on AIM (AIM: TMO), is headquartered in the United Kingdom. Learn more at www.timeout.com and LinkedIn.
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