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4 days in London

A complete 4-day London itinerary with 20 places, arranged so each stop is open when you arrive and the walking between them stays sensible.

Days
4
Places
20
Time in transit
389 min
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Why the stops are in this order

Most itineraries you find online are a list of places worth seeing, left in whatever order the writer thought of them. That is the part that falls apart on the day: you arrive somewhere at 17:40 and it closed at 17:00, or you cross the city twice because two neighbouring sights sat on different days.

This plan is sequenced instead of listed. Every stop below is checked against the opening hours of the place itself, and the gaps between them are real door-to-door travel times, not straight-line distance on a map. The visiting windows shown are what is actually achievable in a day.

Across all 4 days this route spends 389 minutes in transit — that number is the point. Reordering the same 20 places carelessly can easily double it, and that time comes straight out of your trip.

Day 1

09:00–21:30 · 6 places · 117 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 28 min by public transport

    Tower of London

    09:28–11:58 2 hr 30 min

  3. 17 min walk

    Paladar

    12:17–12:47 30 min

  4. 14 min walk

    Westminster Abbey

    13:01–15:01 2 hr

  5. 15 min by public transport

    Buckingham Palace

    15:16–16:46 1 hr 30 min

  6. 25 min by public transport

    The British Museum

    17:11–19:41 2 hr 30 min

  7. 18 min by public transport

    Trafalgar Square

    19:59–20:59 1 hr

Day 2

09:00–21:30 · 6 places · 125 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 14 min by public transport

    St. Paul's Cathedral

    09:14–10:44 1 hr 30 min

  3. 25 min by public transport

    lastminute.com London Eye

    11:09–12:24 1 hr 15 min

  4. 10 min walk

    Colonel Saab Trafalgar Square

    12:34–13:04 30 min

  5. 24 min walk

    Tower Bridge

    13:28–14:28 1 hr

  6. 30 min by public transport

    National Gallery

    14:58–16:58 2 hr

  7. 22 min by public transport

    Tate Modern

    17:20–19:20 2 hr

Day 3

10:00–21:30 · 4 places · 85 min travelling

  1. Central station

    10:00–10:00

  2. 28 min by public transport

    Natural History Museum London

    10:28–13:28 3 hr

  3. 11 min walk

    Osteria romana

    13:39–14:09 30 min

  4. 10 min walk

    Victoria and Albert Museum

    14:19–16:49 2 hr 30 min

  5. 36 min by public transport

    The View from The Shard

    17:25–18:25 1 hr

Day 4

09:00–20:00 · 4 places · 62 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 32 min by public transport

    Hyde Park

    09:32–11:32 2 hr

  3. 16 min walk

    Hawksmoor Air Street

    12:16–12:46 30 min

  4. 13 min walk

    Shrek's Adventure London

    12:59–14:29 1 hr 30 min

  5. 1 min walk

    SEA LIFE London Aquarium

    14:30–16:00 1 hr 30 min

Make it your trip

The schedule above is built for a generic 4-day visit. Open it in the planner to set your own dates — the timings recalculate against the opening hours for those specific days, which matters more than it sounds when a museum closes on Mondays. You can drag stops between days, swap anything you are not interested in, and the rest of the day re-sequences around the change.

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