One of the best ways to make the most of London in the summer is to visit one of the capital’s many sun-kissed pubs, bars and beer gardens. But so many pubs in town weren’t built with sunshine in mind. They were built as post-work refuges, places for pints and pies, not long Sunday afternoons after some sort of brunch. To that end, it’s helpful to know where catches the sun.
Below are 50 pubs well suited to summer drinking, at least according to the data from Andrew Wright and Kate Steel, who developed an app, Pubs in the Sun, which shows users which pub is best at any given time of day. With a canny algorithm, Wright has also charted which pubs get the most sunlight on average and noted the best times to visit for maximum tanning. Wright has decided not to list Wetherspoon pubs, but the only sunny one in the top 50 is the Liberty Bounds, in the City. We’ll see you out there for a cold pint in the hot sun.
