Festival Pier
Festival Pier is a pier on the River Thames near the South Bank Centre. You will find it inside Lambeth’s built-up area. Within 15 km there are 605 more places to visit, starting with British Museum (1.5 km).
Pier in Lambeth
Inside Lambeth
Festival Pier is inside Lambeth’s built-up area, with 391 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Picking your season
May to September are the warmest in Lambeth, with afternoon highs of 18–24°C.
Festival Pier
2 Wikipedia editions have an article on it.
- Type
- Pier
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 2 languages
- Town
- in Lambeth
Around Festival Pier, mapped
Each numbered point is one of the places listed below; Festival Pier is the orange one.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Lambeth’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Bases for a visit
Wandsworth tops the 8 for size, at 326,725 people. From nearest to farthest, these towns all list it.
Lambeth
Westminster
City of London
Southwark
Compare the 8 towns
| Town | Where Festival Pier is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lambeth | It’s in town | 317,108 | 450 |
| Westminster | 200 m west of it | 203,571 | 461 |
| City of London | 600 m northeast of it | 7,820 | 432 |
| Southwark | 600 m southeast of it | 307,076 | 471 |
| Camden | 600 m northwest of it | 209,342 | 458 |
| Islington | 1.6 km north of it | 216,309 | 425 |
| Tower Hamlets | 2 km east of it | 311,072 | 430 |
| Wandsworth | 2.5 km southwest of it | 326,725 | 442 |
Close to Festival Pier
Also close at hand are 2 attractions, 2 art galleries and a museum, among 605 within 15 km.
Big drawMuseumBritish Museum1.5 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)2
Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey1.1 km away3
AttractionElizabeth Tower800 m away4
AttractionLondon Eye400 m away5
Big drawArt galleryNational Gallery800 m away · 709K visitors a year (2021)6
Historic houseBuckingham Palace1.8 km away7
Big drawCastleTower of London2.9 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)8
Big drawArt galleryTate Modern1.3 km away · 1.2M visitors a year (2021)Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Questions about Festival Pier
Where is Festival Pier?
Festival Pier is in Lambeth, London, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Festival Pier?
Pier on the River Thames near the South Bank Centre.
When is the best time to visit Festival Pier?
May to September are the warmest months in Lambeth, with afternoon highs of 18–24°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Festival Pier?
Within 15 km: British Museum (1.5 km), Westminster Abbey (1.1 km), Elizabeth Tower (800 m) and London Eye (400 m).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (9)
- Festival Pier: Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- London Eye: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Gallery: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tate Modern: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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