Tool · Live journeys from TfL

How do I get between my address and Gatwick?

Type your postcode or area and your flight or landing time. Your browser asks Transport for London’s journey planner for the route, then we add the time at the airport.

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To Gatwick

From Gatwick

Your journey

Enter your address, the date and the time to plan your journey.

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How the planner works

Your browser sends the postcode or area you type to postcodes.io for suggestions, and the journey to Transport for London’s journey planner. TfL answers with up to three journeys, their times and the contactless or Oyster pay-as-you-go fare, marked peak or off-peak as TfL prices it. Nothing you type is sent to us.

The Gatwick end is always Gatwick Airport station, inside the South Terminal. Flying out, we count back from your flight: the time you want at the airport, the walk from the station to departures and, for the North Terminal, the shuttle ride. Landing, we add the same walk and ride to the time you expect to be out of arrivals. Gatwick publishes no wait time for the shuttle, so allow some.

On 25 and 26 December TfL’s planner returns no journeys, so we do not ask it. For a date TfL has not loaded yet it finds nothing or returns an error, and we say so rather than guess a plan.

Figures this tool adds

Figures the planner adds at the airport, and TfL’s peak-fare hours
Figure	Value	Checked, source
Gatwick’s general advice: arrive at least two hours before your flight	120 min	Checked 27 Sep 2026gatwickairport.com
Walk from Gatwick Airport station to South Terminal departures	5 min	Checked 27 Sep 2026gatwickairport.com
Inter-terminal shuttle ride between South and North Terminal (wait not included)	2 min	Checked 27 Sep 2026gatwickairport.com
TfL peak-fare hours, Monday to Friday except public holidays	06:30–09:30, 16:00–19:00	Checked 28 Sep 2026tfl.gov.uk

Car quotes come from our route pages for Victoria, London Bridge, St Pancras and East Croydon, last checked 28 Sep 2026. We show them only when TfL’s fastest journey runs through one of those stations.