What's Open in London on a Sunday?

Westminster Abbey — Mon–Fri 09:30–15:30 (last entry), Sat 09:00–15:00 (last entry). Closed to sightseeing on Sundays — open only for worship.

St Paul's Cathedral — Mon–Sat 08:30–16:30 (10:00 opening on Wednesdays); last entry 16:00. Not open for sightseeing on Sundays (worship only). Frequent one-off early closures for services — check stpauls.co.uk before visiting.

Portobello Road Market.

Leadenhall Market — Mon–Fri roughly 10:00–18:00; quiet on weekends as it serves the City office district.

Trafalgar Square — open-air, no ticket, no closing day.

Big Ben & the Houses of Parliament — open-air, no ticket, no closing day.

Buckingham Palace & the Guard — open-air, no ticket, no closing day.

Tower of London — Summer (Mar–Oct): Tue–Sat 09:00–17:30, Sun–Mon 10:00–17:30. Winter (Nov–Feb): Tue–Sat 09:00–16:30, Sun–Mon 10:00–16:30. Last entry 2 hours before closing.

Tower Bridge — open-air, no ticket, no closing day.

Covent Garden — open-air, no ticket, no closing day.

Greenwich.

British Museum — Daily 10:00–17:00, Friday until 20:30. Free entry. Last entry 1 hour before closing.

The schedule above is what the MEVAYA planner builds for a Sunday. It only contains stops that are open that day — the planner reads each stop's closing days and will not route you to a closed venue, even one marked as essential.

The day covers about 5.1 km on foot, with no public transport needed.

Only one stop needs booking: Churchill War Rooms. Everything else is free or sold at the door.

09:00–09:58 — Buckingham Palace & the Guard. The forecourt and the Victoria Memorial are free and open. Changing the Guard runs on set days rather than daily, and the crowd forms an hour ahead — check the official schedule before building a morning around it. It is a public open-air space with no ticket and no closing day.

10:24–11:11 — Big Ben & the Houses of Parliament. Big Ben is the bell, not the tower — the tower is the Elizabeth Tower. Best seen from Westminster Bridge or the far bank. Free from outside, and the bells sound on the hour. It is a public open-air space with no ticket and no closing day.

11:24–13:08 — Churchill War Rooms. The underground bunker where the war was run, left largely as it was in 1945 — maps still pinned, pins still in them. Ticketed, timed, and consistently rated one of the best museums in the city. Verified opening hours: Daily 09:30–18:00, last entry 17:00. Closed 24–26 December. Book ahead: this stop needs a reservation or a timed ticket.

13:08–14:08 — Lunch. The planner reserves time to eat right after Churchill War Rooms, so the afternoon continues from where the morning ended instead of detouring for food.

14:31–15:34 — South Bank riverside walk. The stretch from Westminster Bridge east past the London Eye, the National Theatre and Tate Modern — book stalls under Waterloo Bridge, skateboarders in the undercroft, and the best free views of the city. It is a public open-air space with no ticket and no closing day.

15:54–16:52 — Covent Garden. A 17th-century market square turned pedestrian quarter, with street performers under the glass roof and the Apple Market inside. Free, lively, and genuinely pleasant despite being firmly on the tourist trail. It is a public open-air space with no ticket and no closing day.

17:06–17:46 — Trafalgar Square. Nelson on his column, four lions, and the National Gallery filling one whole side of it. Free, open at any hour, and the point from which all distances to London are officially measured. It is a public open-air space with no ticket and no closing day.

Built by the MEVAYA planner from MEVAYA's curated London data. Opening hours were checked against official and independent sources in September 2026; the route, times and durations are the planner's own output, not estimates written by hand.