Traditional county: Bristol · Unitary authority: City of Bristol · Region: South West
Explore Bristol, Bristol with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Bristol map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers OS MAPS — Ordnance Survey Outdoor mapping and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets — plus a labelled National Grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bristol, Bristol, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Bristol or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Bristol and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
OS MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows OS Outdoor mapping — contours, footpaths, bridleways and access land. Explorer 1:25k shows the OS Explorer sheets themselves: the orange-covered 1:25 000 maps walkers, fell runners and mountain rescue teams use, with field boundaries, rights of way and open access land. The search box finds any British town, village or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Bristol.
Reading the map like a paper Explorer sheet. Click Grid to overlay the OS National Grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference such as NY 266 234 by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an OS National Grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what mountain rescue and the coastguard work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your grid reference stays correct even where the map itself cannot load, which in the Lakes, the Dales and the Highlands is often exactly where you need it.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Place | Bristol |
| Traditional County | Bristol |
| Unitary Authority | City of Bristol |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.453134 |
| Longitude | -2.600982 |
| Place Type | City |
Bristol reveals itself through a dramatic topography of limestone gorges and tidal waterways, where the steep ascent from the River Avon creates a sense of vertigo in the urban sprawl. The city clings to the hillsides, its streets twisting with a nervous, vertical energy that defies the flat monotony of more predictable landscapes. Walking through the centre, one feels the constant pull of the sea in the air, a salty dampness that softens the sharp edges of the Georgian facades. At the summit of Brandon Hill, the view stretches across the rooftops toward the hazy horizon, offering a quiet vantage point where the wind whistles through the grass, untroubled by the thrum of the traffic below. Bristol grew from a medieval port, its early fortune built upon the precarious risks of maritime trade and the dark, complex legacies of the transatlantic slave trade. This mercantile ambition eventually gave way to a sophisticated industrial base, moving from tobacco and sherry to the precision of aerospace engineering and high-end digital innovation. The economy remains a restless creature, constantly shedding its industrial skin to reveal new layers of creative enterprise and technological research. Even the quiet, refined rooms of the Georgian House Museum reflect this long history of acquisition, where the polished wood and imported luxuries speak of a past that was both fabulously wealthy and deeply stained by human exploitation. Bristol commands a vibrant cultural identity, serving as a crucible for groundbreaking music, particularly the heavy, atmospheric pulses of the trip-hop movement that emerged in the 1990s. The city has nurtured a diverse array of talent, from the elusive street artist Banksy—whose provocative Well Hung Lover clings to the side of a building—to the pioneering work of scientists like Paul Dirac and actors such as Cary Grant. Athletics hold a fierce, local loyalty, with the passions of the city divided between the footballing fortunes of Bristol City and Bristol Rovers, while the performing arts find a home in the grand, velvet-lined auditorium of the Bristol Hippodrome. Festivals of light, balloons, and literature regularly animate the streets, turning the grey stone into a stage for communal expression. Bristol possesses a distinctive architectural gravity, defined by the interplay between its soaring ecclesiastical spires and the bold, innovative structures of the modern era. The city’s character is anchored by the venerable stone of its cathedral and the intellectual weight of its university, yet it remains perpetually unfinished, a work in progress that keeps expanding toward the sky. Near the verdant expanse of College Green, the transition between the ancient civic heart and the contemporary bustle feels almost seamless, an architectural collision that highlights the city’s refusal to stand still. It is a place of stark contrasts, where the brutalist concrete of mid-century planning rubs shoulders with the delicate, honey-coloured limestone of the eighteenth century, creating a cityscape that feels as much like an evolving experiment as a finished monument.
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Explore Bristol, Bristol, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.453134, -2.600982. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any British town, village or landmark by name; offers OS Outdoor and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled OS National Grid so the map can be read like a printed Explorer sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an OS National Grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the grid reference remains correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | October 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; OS Outdoor and OS Explorer 1:25 000 via the OS Maps API — contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights; magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |