Fourteen useful toolsLondon planning tools

Build a realistic London spending allowance for your whole party. Choose age groups, trip length, dining style, travel zones, attractions and shows to get a transparent daily breakdown and trip total.

• Separate under-11, 11–15 and 16–17 fare assumptions
• Current TfL daily caps with important exceptions explained
• Budget, moderate and comfortable food benchmarks
• Free or paid sightseeing and theatre allowances
• Calculations run locally in your browser

Spending-money estimate only. Accommodation, travel to London, airport transfers, shopping and insurance are excluded.

Trains charge per person. A car charges per car. That one difference decides which is cheaper for you, and no timetable can tell you because it doesn't know how many of you there are. Pick your airport and party and it prices every sensible route.

• Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, City and Southend
• Priced for your whole party, not for one imaginary solo traveller
• Three age bands, because every operator draws the child line elsewhere
• Exact landing time and day, so a 3am arrival isn't told to take the Tube
• Metered black cabs and fixed-price cars kept separate

Checked 22 August 2026. Express trains and taxis shown as ranges, because that's how they're priced.

Tell it your zones, your dates and roughly how many journeys a day, and it works out what you'll actually be charged — including the daily and weekly caps that quietly stop you paying once you've spent enough.

• Day-by-day breakdown of what you'll be charged
• The Monday-to-Sunday weekly cap that catches out midweek arrivals
• Tells you plainly whether to tap or buy a 7 Day Travelcard
• Buses, Hopper transfers and Heathrow included
• Zone finder for your hotel, and a printable summary

Adult fares as at 1 March 2026. Caps frozen until at least March 2027.

A single stop takes about ninety seconds on the train — and seven more minutes of stairs, waiting and climbing back to the street. This puts the walk against a realistic door-to-door Tube time for any two central stations.

• 118 stations across Zones 1 and 2, plus 23 landmarks
• Shows exactly where the Tube's time actually goes
• Cross-river journeys routed via the nearest bridge
• Three walking paces, and an interchange allowance
• Ranks London's most pointless one-stop journeys

Estimates from TfL station coordinates, not routed directions.

Your fare zone decides your single fare, your daily cap and your weekly cap — so it quietly sets what a week of travel costs before you've booked anything. Type a station or a neighbourhood and get the answer, plus what it means for your money.

• Every station in TfL's published list
• Search by neighbourhood, not just station name
• Boundary stations flagged — TfL charges the cheaper zone
• What staying further out really costs per week
• Browse every station grouped by zone

Underground stations only. Zones from TfL's published station data.

Select the attractions you genuinely plan to visit, enter the pass price you've been quoted, and compare it with buying the same tickets separately. Free museums are included so they don't accidentally make a pass look better than it is.

• Major paid attractions and their checked gate prices
• Your own quoted pass price, including flash sales
• Free museums included as a realistic itinerary check
• Clear saving or overspend for the sights you selected
• Calculations run locally in your browser

Planning estimate only. Confirm current prices and pass inclusions with the provider.

Enter the adults and children in your group to get an age-by-age London travel checklist. It explains under-11 free travel, the Young Visitor discount for ages 11–15, and the practical options for 16 and 17-year-olds.

• Checks the four-under-11s-per-adult allowance
• Explains Oyster and Visitor Oyster card options
• One step-by-step checklist for the whole family
• Flags airport trains and National Rail exceptions
• Calculations run locally in your browser

*Subject to TfL's accompanying-adult and service rules. Check current rules before travelling.

Select a station or area, your bag count and storage time. The locator compares the official station counter with typical local app-network pricing, so you can see the likely difference before booking.

• Major rail stations and useful central London areas
• Calculates for your number of bags and storage duration
• Keeps official counters separate from app-based shops
• Explains booking, payment and final-price checks
• Calculations run locally in your browser

Planning estimates only. Confirm availability, restrictions and the final price with the provider.

UK tipping is quieter than visitors expect, and the usual trap is tipping twice. Tell it the bill, whether a service charge is already on it, and where you are — restaurant, pub, taxi or hotel — and it tells you plainly what to add.

• Spots when a service charge means you're already done
• Restaurants, pubs, taxis and hotels covered separately
• Round-up guidance for taxis, not a fixed percentage
• Per-night and per-bag ranges for hotel staff
• Calculations run locally in your browser

General guidance only, not a fixed rule. Tipping in the UK is discretionary.

London's national museums are free by long-standing policy, not luck, and most itineraries mix them with paid sights without realising how much that's already saving. Tick what you're planning to visit and see the paid total against the free ones.

• Ten of London's best-known free and paid sights
• Adult and child pricing kept separate
• Clear on the catch — special exhibitions still charge
• Pairs well with the Attraction Pass Calculator
• Calculations run locally in your browser

Planning estimate only. Gate prices change — confirm current prices with each venue.

Choose your travel month and trip length and get the weather London actually has — average high and low, rain days, sunset time and daylight hours — with a packing list and quantities built from those figures rather than from generic seasonal advice.

• Met Office 1991–2020 averages for the Heathrow station
• Sunset and daylight hours, so short winter days don't catch you out
• Quantities scaled to your nights, with a laundry point past a week
• Shows the spread around the average, not just a single number
• Printable, with a paperwork checklist covering ETA and adapters

Climate averages describe a typical month, not your particular week — always check a forecast before you fly. Entry requirements are summarised only; confirm yours on GOV.UK.

Record the London areas you have explored, save the ones you want to visit next and open the corresponding complete area guides when you are ready to plan.

• Track explored London areas
• Save areas for a future visit
• See progress across all 35 area guides
• Open the corresponding complete guides
• Selections stay privately in your browser

Included with paid access. Progress is stored only in this browser and does not transfer automatically to another device.

Find carefully selected historic pubs near your location or browse by area, pub name and nearest station, with only verified feature claims shown.

• Find pubs near your current location
• Filter for real ale, outdoor space, food and riverside pubs
• Save pub IDs privately in this browser
• Open the corresponding London area guides
• No map API, account or location tracking

Included with paid access. Distances are approximate straight-line distances; pub facilities can change, so check directly before travelling.

Keep London’s essential emergency numbers together, check which NHS service may be appropriate, understand when visitor charges may apply, and create a printable card with the details someone may need in an emergency.

• Free for everyone — no access purchase required
• 999, 112, NHS 111, police 101 and Samaritans in one place
• Guidance on A&E, urgent treatment centres, pharmacies and GPs
• Visitor charging guidance linked to official NHS and GOV.UK sources
• Personal card fields processed in your browser

Free preparation aid, not medical advice. If someone’s life is at risk, call 999 or 112.