Rebecca Crowe

Make no mistake, the UK’s most beautiful places rank among the world’s most visually stunning locations. And what’s more, Britain looks good in so many ways. Sure, there are mighty natural landscapes like mountains, coasts and forests – but lots of the UK’s most spectacular sights are manmade: age-old architectural marvels, idyllic towns and feats of revolutionary design.   Time Out’s revamped guide to the most beautiful places in the UK has all the above and more. Compiled with the expertise of our travel experts – who’ve seen more than their fair share of spectacular stuff – it documents the length and breadth of Britain’s grandest and most memorable locations. In the market to see something mind-boggling? Here’s our definitive ranking of the UK’s most beautiful places right now. RECOMMENDED FOR UK TRAVEL🥾 The best hikes and walks🏖️ The most stunning beaches🏛️ The most fascinating museums🌊 The greatest seaside towns

A red sandstone amphitheatre. An ancient woodland on the English coast. A teeny tiny island with a black sand beach. Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes – luckily, the world isn’t held to the same rigid beauty standards as humans are – and we’ve curated this list to celebrate that.  It goes without saying that Time Out’s ranking of the world’s most beautiful places is entirely subjective and by no means exhaustive, but what we can guarantee is real-life experience. Every single beach, lake, city and valley on this list has been visited and vetted by our globetrotting network of travel writers. In short, they’re all well worth making the journey to see for yourself (no social media fakery here).We update this list regularly, ensuring we’re including the big-hitters while considering the impact of overtourism and spotlighting lesser-known beauty spots. So here it is: Time Out’s guide to the most beautiful places on planet Earth. Happy travels!Updated March 2026: There are seven new additions to the list this year, including a terracotta-coloured Old Town in Italy, an opulent Renaissance-style library in New York and a compact mountain range in northern Spain.Grace Beard is Time Out’s travel editor, based in London. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. RECOMMENDED:⛰️ The most beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Sites🗺 The most underrated travel destinations i

This is about the time when the January blues start to hit pretty hard. It’s dark at 4pm, you’ve got no money left after Christmas and winter feels like it’s dragging on forever. But we’re here to tell you that things are looking up, because 2025 is going to be a corker of a year for the UK.  It turns out that 2025 is going to be a bit of a big one, with a number of landmark occasions being celebrated across Britain. There’s Jane Austen’s 250th birthday in Southampton, as well as the art-packed Folkestone Triennial, a celebration of 200 years of the British railway in York and Bradford’s 2025 City of Culture festivities. Then, there are up-and-coming foodie towns in Cornwall, music scenes that are popping off in Cardiff and Belfast, and the reopening of grand cultural insitutions like the Tate Liverpool.  If there’s ever been a good time to book a trip, it’s now (it might even help keep some SAD at bay). There is so much fantastic stuff happening across the country this year, so read our list curated by local experts of the best places to visit in the UK in 2025, and get stuck in.  RECOMMENDED: 🇬🇧 The 25 best new things to do in the UK in 2025📍The 12 most underrated city breaks in the UK 🏨 The UK’s 13 best new hotels opening in 2025👨‍👩‍👧 6 amazing places to stay with Kids in the UK

Quando alguém me pergunta quanto tempo vou demorar a chegar à Suíça esta semana, respondo: cerca de 35 horas. A reacção, compreensivelmente, é de absoluto espanto. Desde a idade de ouro dos voos low cost, viajar para o estrangeiro para uma escapadinha urbana tornou-se muito mais acessível e rápido. Fazer o que estou a fazer agora, reservar dias só para chegar ao destino, está a voltar a estar na moda, mas continua a provocar muitos olhares de estranheza. A slow travel é, claro, impulsionada por uma maior consciência da pegada de carbono e do impacto do turismo excessivo, mas também passa por viver mais experiências durante o percurso. A minha viagem até à Suíça, que envolve um comboio, um ferry nocturno e uma viagem no novo autocarro-cama de luxo da Europa, sem falar em paragens em várias cidades, é prova disso mesmo. Fotografia: Rebecca Crowe para a Time Out A primeira etapa é um comboio Transpennine Express de quatro horas, da minha casa em Liverpool até Newcastle. Tecnicamente, é na direcção errada em relação ao destino final, mas vou até North Shields para apanhar o ferry Newcastle-Amesterdão, um clássico da slow travel entre o Reino Unido e a Europa. Enquanto o Eurostar recebe toda a atenção, para muita gente do Norte de Inglaterra e da Escócia o custo de ir até Londres ultrapassa largamente qualquer tempo perdido na travessia nocturna de 15 horas, promovida como um mini-cruzeiro. Ao entrar a bordo deste gigante, percebe-se facilmente como pode servir de cruzeiro de in

When someone asks me how long it'll take for me to get to Switzerland this week, I say around 35 hours. They, understandably, look dumbfounded.  Since the golden age of budget flying, travelling abroad for a city break is a much more accessible and speedy undertaking. Doing as I’m doing – carving out days just to get to a destination – is coming back in vogue, but it will still get you some blank stares. Slow travel is, of course, driven by a heightened awareness of our carbon footprint and our impact on overtourism, but it’s also about having more experiences while you travel. My journey to Switzerland, which involves a train, an overnight ferry and a ride on Europe’s brand-new luxury sleeper bus – not to mention stops in a couple of different cities – is certainly proof of that.  RECOMMENDED: I’ve taken crowded sleeper trains – my first journey in a private compartment was game-changing Photograph: Rebecca Crowe for Time Out My first leg is a four-hour Transpennine Express train from my home in Liverpool up to Newcastle. It’s technically the wrong direction to my final destination, but I’m headed to North Shields for the Newcastle to Amsterdam ferry, a longtime stalwart for slow travel between the UK and Europe. While the Eurostar gets all the attention, for many living in the North of England and Scotland, the cost of travelling to London far exceeds any time lost on the 15-hour overnight ferry, touted as a mini cruise.   Stepping on board this behemoth, it's easy to see