Travel to London

Every way to reach London: 4 modes compared, with fares.

The City of London skyline as viewed toward the north-west from the top floor viewing platform of London City Hall on the southern side of the Thames. In the foreground: Dixie Queen and Millennium Time at Tower Millennium Pier. This is a 5 segment panoramic image taken by myself with a Canon 5D and 24-105mm f/4L IS lens.

London is reachable from 520 places across 109 countries by 4 modes, on services run by 196 operators. The cheapest arrival costs €10.07 and the fastest takes 1h 9m door to door. The nearest origin is 17 km away.

Priced for 4 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

Arriving

How people reach London

One row per mode that actually calls here. Reach is the furthest origin that mode serves in a straight line.
ModeOriginsFromFastestReachOperators
Train204€11.881h 9m1,002 km21
Coach78€10.071h 41m1,449 km2
Flight800€31.413h 55m11,718 km170
Ferry76€11.882h 22m410 km3
  • €10.07 to €31.41Fare range
  • 08:03 to 08:48First and last departure
  • 520Places you can arrive from
  • 109Countries
  • 196Operators

€10.07 to €31.41 for one passenger across the 4 routes priced below, all of them on 4 October 2026. A single figure hides which end of that a journey sits at. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

What the operators filed into London on 28 September 2026, taken from the busiest routes into the city. Real times, and a fare only where an operator published one.

Departures on 28 September 2026

Real departures, filed by the operators themselves. We hold no fare for these services, so there is no price here to mislead you.

  1. 08:0318:5710h 54m

    S5S-Bahn Berlin GmbH2 changes

    S Ostbahnhof (Berlin)St-Pancras-International

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  2. 08:0318:5710h 54m

    S5S-Bahn Berlin GmbH2 changes

    S Ostbahnhof (Berlin)St-Pancras-International

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  3. 08:4012:574h 17m

    EST 9133EurostarDirect

    Amsterdam-CentraalSt-Pancras-International

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  4. 08:4510:572h 12m

    IC 3631NMBS/SNCB1 change

    Bruxelles-CentralSt-Pancras-International

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  5. 08:4510:572h 12m

    IC 3631NMBS/SNCB1 change

    Bruxelles-CentralSt-Pancras-International

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  6. 08:4818:009h 12m

    S3S-Bahn Berlin GmbH3 changes

    S Ostbahnhof (Berlin)St-Pancras-International

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  7. 08:4818:009h 12m

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    S Ostbahnhof (Berlin)St-Pancras-International

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The train gets you into London. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in London for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from London St Pancras International and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km18216%Hounslow, 17 km
200 to 600 km23120%Cardiff, 211 km
600 to 1,500 km27123%Derry, 615 km
Over 1,500 km47441%Murcia, 1506 km
Origins

Which countries you can arrive from

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
United Kingdom29734%
France9010%
Germany688%
United States627%
Italy566%
Spain546%
Poland263%
Romania243%
Greece233%
Netherlands202%
China172%
India172%
Belgium162%
Canada162%
Sweden162%
Türkiye162%
Morocco152%
Austria142%
Croatia142%
Norway142%
Terminals

Stations, airports and ports in London

London

Rail
  • London St Pancras International
  • Ealing Broadway
  • East Croydon
Coach
  • London Victoria Coach Station
  • London Bridge Bus Station
Air
  • LGW
  • STN
  • LHR
  • LTN
  • LCY
  • SEN
Ferry
  • London Bridge City Pier
  • London Eye - Waterloo Pier

London is large, and the road in from LGW can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in London

Settled in advance, so the ride into London costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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Fares

The cheapest journeys into London

Cheapest fare and fastest journey into London, over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Southend-on-Sea to London bus€10.071h 42m58 km
Reading to London bus€10.071h 41m59 km
Southampton to London bus€10.072h 25m112 km
Birmingham to London bus€10.633h 9m163 km
Luton to London train€11.881h 11m46 km
Milton Keynes to London train€11.881h 23m73 km
High Wycombe to London train€11.881h 9m45 km
Southend-on-Sea to London train€11.881h 17m58 km
Basildon to London train€11.881h 9m41 km
Reading to London train€11.881h 15m59 km
Crawley to London train€11.881h 11m44 km
Reading to London ferry€11.883h 40m59 km
Southampton to London ferry€11.885h 9m112 km
Portsmouth to London ferry€11.884h 57m104 km
High Wycombe to London ferry€11.883h 10m45 km
Gosport to London ferry€11.884h 57m106 km

The train gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near London St Pancras International

Most of the points near London St Pancras International open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Popular journeys to London

Common questions about Travel to London

How can I get to London?

London is reachable by 4 modes on our network, from 520 places, across 109 countries, on services run by 196 operators. The table on this page compares those modes on the cheapest fare, the fastest journey, how far each reaches and how many carriers run it.

What is the cheapest way to get to London?

The cheapest way into London is by coach, from €10.07 for one passenger. That is the lowest fare across all 520 origins we sell into London over the next three weeks, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee.

What is the fastest way to get to London?

The fastest journey into London is by train, at 1h 9m door to door. The nearest origin we sell is 17 km away in a straight line, which is why a short fast journey exists at all on this list.

Which stations and airports does London have?

London has 13 named terminals on our network, including 3 rail stations and 6 airports. Among them are London St Pancras International, Ealing Broadway, East Croydon. Every journey time on this page allows for reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

Where can I travel to London from within 200 km?

182 of the routes we sell into London start within 200 km. The nearest is Hounslow, 17 km away in a straight line. Short corridors like these are usually the ones where a train or coach beats a flight door to door.

Where else can I go from London in United Kingdom?

London connects to 520 places on our network across 109 countries the furthest of them 11,718 km away in a straight line. United Kingdom routes are listed on this page, and the country pages carry the rest of the network around it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Catchment, Fares, Door to door, Distances

Elsewhere in United Kingdom

The wider region

Being on the water gives London a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of London and across United Kingdom

Day trips that leave London in the morning and cover a good part of United Kingdom by evening.

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