Nearest Town & City Finder
Find the nearest towns and cities to any location or to where you are now, with how far away each one is, in which direction, and how many people live there.
About this tool
Enter coordinates, a postcode or a place name, or press 📍 to use where you are. The table lists the ten nearest places that meet the population limit, with the straight-line distance and the compass direction from your location to each. Raise the limit to find the nearest big city, which is handy for airports, hospitals and train connections.
The list is built into the page from GeoNames, the open geographical database: every town and village in the UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands with at least 1,000 people, and every city worldwide with 50,000 or more. Nothing is looked up online, so it works without a signal once the page has loaded. Population figures come from GeoNames and are mostly based on recent censuses, so treat them as approximate.
Place data: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0. Postcode data: contains OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; ONS, OGL v3.0.