two nights in

Southampton

Southampton is the largest city in Hampshire, on the south coast of England. A busy cruise ship and container port, Southampton is the European end of the last Transatlantic ocean liner route, the Queen Mary II to New York, and in 1912 was the point of departure for the Titanic. Wikivoyage

Population 271,173 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in United Kingdom

Visas and entry What your passport needs for United Kingdom

Getting there

Remembered in this browser only, with the last few you used.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Southampton Fringe Festival

    July

    Southampton Fringe Festival is a new event over three days in July 2024

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Southampton); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Markets

  • Kingsland Market

    Opening hours

    Sa

    720 m from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 67 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: St Denys 1.8 km, Millbrook 2.1 km, Bitterne 2.1 km, Woolston 2.3 km, Sholing 3.2 km, Swaythling 4.0 km, Hythe Town 4.4 km, Redbridge 4.7 km, Southampton Airport Parkway 5.4 km, Totton 5.6 km, Station 5.8 km, Netley 5.9 km, Monks Brook Halt 6.0 km

Want picks in Southampton that suit you? Ask your travel assistant, free with an account. Something wrong or missing on this page? Tell me

Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.