Liverpool

About

Liverpool is a port city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, 178 miles (286 km) north-west of London. It had a population of 508,961 in 2024 and is the administrative, cultural and economic centre of the Liverpool City Region, a combined authority area with a population of over 1.5 million.

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Why visit

Visit Liverpool for music, theater, and performance, markets, streets, food, and public squares, landscape, water, gardens, and nearby routes. For Liverpool, the useful material is practical and visible: museums, streets, religious buildings, markets, performance spaces, food, and nearby landscapes. A good itinerary should stay selective. Let one institution, district, or landscape edge organize the day in Liverpool, then keep the supporting stops close. That restraint helps Liverpool feel like a place rather than a sequence of obligations. If the strongest material around Liverpool sits outside the center, give it its own time rather than forcing it into the same day.

When to avoid

Do not visit Liverpool expecting every useful stop to be close together or easy to improvise. Do the practical reading of Liverpool first: hours, routes, weather, crowds, and how far the neighborhoods really sit from one another. A safer and clearer day in Liverpool usually comes from grouping nearby sites and avoiding unnecessary late or awkward transfers. If the main interest is one nearby site, it may be better to treat Liverpool as a base rather than the whole destination.

The next week in Liverpool

7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).

Year-round climate

Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).

Airports near Liverpool

2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL) at 12 km.

Getting around Liverpool

Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.

Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.