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The Faraday Effect

The Faraday Effect is a science museum. It stands inside Tower Hamlets’ built-up area. Nearby, Tower of London (5.9 km) heads a list of 559 within 15 km.

Where

In Tower Hamlets

inside the built-up area

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 19–24°C

In brief

Museum in Tower Hamlets

Inside Tower Hamlets

The Faraday Effect is inside Tower Hamlets’ built-up area, with 54 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

May to September are the warmest in Tower Hamlets, with afternoon highs of 19–24°C.

Jan9° / 3°57 mm

Feb9° / 3°43 mm

Mar12° / 5°37 mm

Apr15° / 6°42 mm

May19° / 9°46 mm

Jun22° / 12°50 mm

Jul24° / 14°48 mm

Aug24° / 14°59 mm

Sep20° / 12°49 mm

Oct16° / 9°66 mm

Nov12° / 6°63 mm

Dec9° / 4°58 mm

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

About

The Faraday Effect

Museum: science.

In Tower Hamlets, inside the town’s built-up area.

Type: Museum
Town: in Tower Hamlets
Official site: trinitybuoywharf.com/whats-on/the-faraday-effect

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

The map

Mapping The Faraday Effect

Numbered points are the places near The Faraday Effect, which is in orange.

Towns near it

Towns that list The Faraday Effect

Newham tops the 7 for size, at 351,065 people. The list runs from its own town outward.

1 · It’s in town

Tower Hamlets

311,072 people · 430 places to visit

2 · 100 m northeast of it

Newham

351,065 people · 133 places to visit

3 · 400 m southeast of it

Greenwich

288,117 people · 125 places to visit

4 · 2.8 km southwest of it

Southwark

307,076 people · 471 places to visit

Compare the 7 towns

Town	Where The Faraday Effect is	People	Places to visit
Tower Hamlets	It’s in town	311,072	430
Newham	100 m northeast of it	351,065	133
Greenwich	400 m southeast of it	288,117	125
Southwark	2.8 km southwest of it	307,076	471
Lewisham	3.2 km south of it	300,764	218
Hackney	4.4 km northwest of it	258,464	407
Waltham Forest	4.8 km north of it	278,129	73

Make a day of it

What else is near The Faraday Effect

Nearby, 559 places within 15 km include 3 museums, 2 cathedrals and a castle.

Big drawCastleTower of London5.9 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)2

Big drawMuseumBritish Museum9.4 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)3MuseumMuseumRoyal Observatory Greenwich3.4 km away 4

Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey9.4 km away 5

AttractionElizabeth Tower9.2 km away 6

Historic houseBuckingham Palace10 km away 7

CathedralSt Paul's Cathedral7.4 km away 8

Big drawMuseumNational Maritime Museum3.1 km away · 2.4M visitors a year

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

Questions about The Faraday Effect

Where is The Faraday Effect?

The Faraday Effect is in Tower Hamlets, London, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is The Faraday Effect?

Museum: science.

When is the best time to visit The Faraday Effect?

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

What else is there to see near The Faraday Effect?

Within 15 km: Tower of London (5.9 km), British Museum (9.4 km), Royal Observatory Greenwich (3.4 km) and Westminster Abbey (9.4 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 (7)

Tower of London: Bob Collowan, 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
Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Paul's Cathedral: Mark Fosh, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
National Maritime Museum: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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