The days are getting longer, the trees are finally budding leaves, and flowers are blooming all over the city: it's springtime in London and there's perhaps no better time to visit London. Yeah, sure, summertime has warmer and often sunnier weather, but visiting London in the spring gives you the chance to see the city come back to life after another grey, rainy, cold winter. Best of all, spring is a shoulder season for London travel, meaning you can often save on airfare...

Spring has sprung... or it nearly has! If you're reading this, you're probably in the earliest days of spring, and wondering about all the wonderful blossoms and blooms you can see around London. Because whether you're aware or not, London is actually considered a forest, according to the U.N. definition (fact!). That means there are tons of green spaces all over town – or they're at least green in the spring and summer anyway...

Is pink your favorite color? Do you love flowering trees? Does the sight of blossoms in the beginning of Spring make your heart sing? London is the city for you! Every spring between mid-March and early May, parts of London erupt in a riot of colors – mostly pink, but also white, purple, and almost-red. This is when you can see magnolias and cherry blossoms in London...

London is a year-round destination, but that doesn't mean we can all visit all year long. For many of us, there are constraints that determine when we will have time to visit London – and how far our London travel budget will stretch once we get there. May is a great time to visit London, as it bridges the gap between spring and summer...

While summer might be the most popular season to visit London, there's something special about visiting in the spring. Unlike the nursery rhyme that "April showers bring May flowers," London works a bit differently. Flowers and trees begin blooming in March, continuing on through the common rain showers in April until the whole city is verdant and lush in May. If you love seeing the change of seasons, there's no better time to visit than April in London...

In like a lion, out like a lamb... is the proverb that describes the month of March and how the weather improves as it goes on. That's certainly the case for London, where winter lets go of its cold, rainy grip as the days pass and young blooms herald the new season by month's end...