Quicker to walk?

Some central stations are very close together. Once you add escalators, corridors and waiting for a train, walking a short hop can take about as long, and it costs nothing.

These times come from TfL's own walking maps (May 2025), so they are TfL's figures rather than our estimates. TfL says all the routes on them are step-free, and that one minute is about 100 steps.

Between	Walk	Distance	Note
Charing Cross ↔ Embankment	3 min	160 m	some slopes
Leicester Square ↔ Covent Garden	4 min	320 m
Cannon Street ↔ Monument	4 min	160 m
Euston ↔ Euston Square	4 min	320 m
Bond Street ↔ Oxford Circus	6 min	480 m
Leicester Square ↔ Piccadilly Circus	6 min	480 m
Leicester Square ↔ Charing Cross	6 min	480 m
Moorgate ↔ Liverpool Street	7 min	480 m
Knightsbridge ↔ Hyde Park Corner	8 min	640 m
Tottenham Court Road ↔ Leicester Square	8 min	480 m
Holborn ↔ Chancery Lane	8 min	640 m
Green Park ↔ Piccadilly Circus	9 min	640 m
Covent Garden ↔ Holborn	9 min	640 m
Marble Arch ↔ Bond Street	10 min	640 m
Oxford Circus ↔ Tottenham Court Road	10 min	800 m
Paddington ↔ Lancaster Gate	10 min	640 m
Oxford Circus ↔ Piccadilly Circus	11 min	800 m
Tottenham Court Road ↔ Holborn	11 min	640 m
Charing Cross ↔ Westminster	12 min	800 m
Monument ↔ London Bridge	12 min	800 m
Hyde Park Corner ↔ Green Park	13 min	800 m	some slopes
Holborn ↔ Russell Square	13 min	800 m
Westminster ↔ Waterloo	14 min	970 m
Embankment ↔ Waterloo	16 min	970 m
Lancaster Gate ↔ Marble Arch	17 min	1,290 m
Marble Arch ↔ Hyde Park Corner	19 min	1,290 m
Green Park ↔ Victoria	22 min	1,450 m	some slopes

Three short ones worth knowing

Charing Cross to Embankment: 3 minutes.
Leicester Square to Covent Garden: 4 minutes.
Cannon Street to Monument: 4 minutes.

Sources: TfL West End walking map, City of London walking map and walking Tube map, Zones 1–3 (all © TfL, May 2025). Last checked 24 October 2026.