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Sky Garden

Sky Garden is a public garden. You will find it inside City of London’s built-up area. Our list has 593 more places within 15 km; first among them is Tower of London, at 600 m.

Photo: Sky Garden, Colin (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where

In City of London

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 35%

#2,958 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 19–24°C

In brief

Garden in City of London

Inside City of London

Sky Garden is inside City of London’s built-up area, with 347 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

Which month to go

From May to September, City of London sees highs of 19–24°C.

Jan9° / 3°58 mm

Feb9° / 3°43 mm

Mar12° / 5°37 mm

Apr15° / 6°43 mm

May19° / 9°47 mm

Jun22° / 12°51 mm

Jul24° / 14°50 mm

Aug24° / 14°62 mm

Sep20° / 12°50 mm

Oct16° / 9°66 mm

Nov12° / 6°64 mm

Dec9° / 4°59 mm

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

About

Sky Garden

Its Wikipedia coverage spans 2 languages.

Type: Garden
Wikipedias: Covered in 2 languages
Town: in City of London
Official site: skygarden.london

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

The map

Getting your bearings

Orange shows Sky Garden; numbers mark the places near it.

Towns near it

Towns near Sky Garden

In size, Lambeth comes first of the 8, with 317,108 people. The towns whose pages list it: the one it is in, those within 5 km of it, then larger towns further out.

1 · It’s in town

City of London

7,820 people · 432 places to visit

2 · 400 m east of it

Tower Hamlets

311,072 people · 430 places to visit

3 · 500 m south of it

Southwark

307,076 people · 471 places to visit

4 · 900 m northwest of it

Islington

216,309 people · 425 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Sky Garden is	People	Places to visit
City of London	It’s in town	7,820	432
Tower Hamlets	400 m east of it	311,072	430
Southwark	500 m south of it	307,076	471
Islington	900 m northwest of it	216,309	425
Hackney	1 km north of it	258,464	407
Camden	1.5 km northwest of it	209,342	458
Lambeth	1.7 km south of it	317,108	450
Westminster	1.9 km west of it	203,571	461

Each has its own grades, prices and things to do.

Make a day of it

Other places close by

Among the 593 within 15 km are 2 cathedrals, 2 attractions and a castle.

Big drawCastleTower of London600 m away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)2

Big drawMuseumBritish Museum3.1 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)3

CathedralSt Paul's Cathedral1.1 km away 4

Big drawArt galleryTate Modern1.2 km away · 1.2M visitors a year (2021)5

Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey3.3 km away 6

AttractionElizabeth Tower3.1 km away 7

AttractionLondon Eye2.7 km away 8

Historic houseBuckingham Palace4.2 km away

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

A visit to Sky Garden: questions

Where is Sky Garden?

Sky Garden is in City of London, London, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Sky Garden?

Public garden in London.

When is the best time to visit Sky Garden?

May to September are the warmest months in City of London, with afternoon highs of 19–24°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Sky Garden?

Within 15 km: Tower of London (600 m), British Museum (3.1 km), St Paul's Cathedral (1.1 km) and Tate Modern (1.2 km).

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)

Sky Garden: Colin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Paul's Cathedral: Mark Fosh, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tate Modern: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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
Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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