March 2024: We made it, London! March is here at last, the official start of spring is just days away. Pretty soon we’ll be spending our weekends frollicking like baby lambs in parks filled with colourful spring blooms, day drinking at a rooftop bar or getting mild heat stroke at a day festival. But don’t go wishing the time away, because there’s plenty of fun stuff going on before then.
March is also great month for culture, particularly for film fanatics; no sooner has Oscar season ended then several major film festivals arrive in London, including BFI Flare, Kinoteka, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival and Cinema Made in Italy. Avid readers have plenty to look forward to as well, as the London Book Fair, Deptford Literature Festival, the Alternative Book Fair and the inaugural North London Book Fest all arrive in town.
Theatre-wise there are loads of big openings in March, including ‘Nye’, the National’s new play about NHS founder Aneurin Bevan starring Michael Sheen, the return of ‘For Black Boys...’ on the West End and the transfer of Broadway smash ‘MJ The Musical’. And exhibitions openings this month include ‘Enzo Mari’ at the Design Museum and Soufiane Ababri at the Barbican Gallery, while the Other Art Fair and the Affordable Art Fair are both back in town too.
And that’s before you even mention the wealth of things to do around the city for Mother’s Day, St Patrick’s Day and the Easter bank holiday weekend. The fun quite simply never stops!
No matter what your vibe, tastes or interests, there is always something to do in London. When the sun’s out, London’s parks turn into leafy social clubs, restaurants dust off their outdoor seating and fountains erupt from dusty concrete squares and suddenly the city air is filled with alfresco theatre.
Whether you want to see cutting-edge art exhibitions, iconic attractions, secret spots, world-beating theatre, stunning green spaces, it’s all here and you can probably fit all this in and more still barely feel like you’ve scratched the surface of the city. And that’s before you factor in all those historic London pubs, the latest must-visit restaurants and vibrant LGBTQ+ venues. And if you need somewhere to stay? Check out London’s best hotels or Airbnbs.
This London bucket list (curated by our editors and always hotly debated in the Time Out office) is a good place to start because exploring this city can be a little daunting. There’s something for everyone here, but you need to know where to look.
Plus, if you want to know what’s happening in London, like, right now, check out things to do in London this week and things to do in London this weekend. After a few days pottering about in the capital, you’ll be more than ready to reel off Dr Samuel Johnson’s famous quote: ‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.’
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