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King's College Chapel

King's College Chapel is a church in Cambridge. There are 27 other places to visit inside 5 km. It is run by King's College (University of Cambridge).

Where

In Cambridge

inside the built-up area

Run by

King's College (University of Cambridge)

the operator on record

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–23°C

In brief

Church in Cambridge

Inside Cambridge

King's College Chapel is inside Cambridge’s built-up area, with 27 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.

When to go

Month by month in Cambridge

Expect highs of 18–23°C in Cambridge from May to September.

Jan8° / 2°48 mm

Feb9° / 2°36 mm

Mar11° / 3°33 mm

Apr14° / 5°36 mm

May18° / 7°45 mm

Jun21° / 10°51 mm

Jul23° / 13°49 mm

Aug23° / 12°57 mm

Sep20° / 10°48 mm

Oct15° / 8°57 mm

Nov11° / 4°53 mm

Dec8° / 2°50 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Cambridge, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Cambridge. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Cambridge’s full climate →

About

King's College Chapel

Worth the trip, Fitzwilliam Museum is 600 m off.

Type: Church
Run by: King's College (University of Cambridge)
Town: in Cambridge

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

King's College Chapel on the map

The places near King's College Chapel are numbered on the map in the order below.

Towns near it

Where people come from

Among the 8, Cambridge is the biggest, home to 152,742 people. Its home town tops the list; the rest follow by distance.

1 · It’s in town

Cambridge

152,742 people · 33 places to visit

2 · 2.6 km northwest of it

Girton

4,384 people · 28 places to visit

3 · 2.7 km southwest of it

Grantchester

536 people · 26 places to visit

4 · 3.1 km west of it

Coton

952 people · 25 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where King's College Chapel is	People	Places to visit
Cambridge	It’s in town	152,742	33
Girton	2.6 km northwest of it	4,384	28
Grantchester	2.7 km southwest of it	536	26
Coton	3.1 km west of it	952	25
Histon and Impington	3.4 km north of it	7,781	32
Fen Ditton	3.8 km east of it	509	31
Barton	4.3 km southwest of it	504	22
Milton	4.4 km northeast of it	4,150	30

Make a day of it

Other places close by

The 59 places within 15 km include 5 museums, a garden and a castle.

1MuseumMuseumFitzwilliam Museum600 m away · 364K visitors a year 2

MuseumMuseum of Zoology300 m away · 139K visitors a year (2023)3

GardenCambridge University Botanic Garden1.4 km away 4

CastleCambridge Castle800 m away 5

Art galleryKettle's Yard Gallery700 m away 6

MuseumWhipple Museum of the History Of Science300 m away 7

MuseumMuseum of Archaeology and Anthropology400 m away 8

MuseumSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences400 m away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

King's College Chapel, answered

Where is King's College Chapel?

King's College Chapel is in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is King's College Chapel?

Church.

Who runs King's College Chapel?

King's College (University of Cambridge).

When is the best time to visit King's College Chapel?

May to September are the warmest months in Cambridge, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near King's College Chapel?

Within 15 km: Fitzwilliam Museum (600 m), Museum of Zoology (300 m), Cambridge University Botanic Garden (1.4 km) and Cambridge Castle (800 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 (7)

Museum of Zoology: Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Cambridge University Botanic Garden: temporalata, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Cambridge Castle: Samuel Buck / Nathaniel Buck, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Kettle's Yard Gallery: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Whipple Museum of the History Of Science: Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences: Sebastian Ballard, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

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