Now that spring has sprung and people aren’t forced to use their vehicles or public transit to get from one place to another, people in Boston can hit the pavement and put one foot in front of the other.

Perhaps the fact that the Hub was ranked as the third most walkable city is enough to egg more people out the door.

The latest rendition of the Walk Score, an index used to measure a city’s walkability provided the city in question has a population of 300,000 or more, has placed Boston as third overall behind New York City and San Francisco.

According to RedFin, which owns Walk Score, the top 10 is listed as follows with the number being the measure of walkability:

1 New York 87.6
2 San Francisco 83.9
3 Boston 79.5
4 Philadelphia 76.5
5 Miami 75.6
6 Chicago 74.8
7 Washington D.C. 74.1
8 Seattle 70.8
9 Oakland 68.5
10 Baltimore 66.2

According to Walk Score, Boston is “very walkable — most errands can be accomplished on foot. There is some amount of infrastructure for biking. Transit is excellent and convenient for most trips.”

In order for Walk Score to come up with its index, it had to “analyzed over 10 million locations and computed more than 2 billion walking routes for 2,500 U.S. cities” and used a “Street Smart Walk Score algorithm that incorporates walking routes, depth of choice, pedestrian friendliness, population  and neighborhood data.”

It comes as no surprise, really, that Boston ranked so well as a walkable city. Not only is it densely packed – close to 650,000 people living in less than 50-square miles – making it easy to get from A to B, but the city is perennially ranked as a walkable super power.

In June 2014 Boston also took third in a walkability ranking compiled by LOCUS and The George Washington University’s Center for Real Estate & Urban Analysis.

Again New York City was ranked ahead of Boston so, in that study, so too was Washington D.C. which took the number 7 spot in Walk Score’s latest compilation.