Peckham for a night out: the zone, the venue mix and the way home

What zone is Peckham?

Fare Zone 2. TfL lists both Peckham stations in Zone 2: Peckham Rye, served by the Windrush line and by Southern, Southeastern and Thameslink trains, and Queens Road Peckham, served by the Windrush line and Southern [1]. Peckham Rye is inside the MYSOVA zone; Queens Road Peckham is about 400 metres beyond its eastern edge [1][3].

By day, the Windrush line runs from Peckham Rye north through Queens Road Peckham, Surrey Quays, Whitechapel, Shoreditch High Street and Dalston Junction to Highbury & Islington, and west through Denmark Hill to Clapham Junction [2].

TfL's fare zones set what you pay to travel. MYSOVA's zones are a separate map: areas where a clock-in in the app earns a multiplier.

Where the MYSOVA zone runs

The Peckham zone covers 0.72 square kilometres, about 900 metres from west to east and 1 kilometre from south to north [3]. Peckham Rye station sits inside it, about 370 metres south of the zone's centre [1][3].

All 17 venues on the map inside the zone lie within about 490 metres of Peckham Rye station, and 14 of them within 400 metres [1][4]. By their nearest postcode, all 17 are in SE15 and in the London Borough of Southwark, so one council licenses them [7]. Peckham's zone stands on its own: the nearest other zones are Bermondsey's, about 1.7 kilometres away, Elephant & Castle's at 1.9 and Brixton's at 2.5 [3].

What kind of places are there?

MYSOVA gives each venue one category. Of the 17 venues inside the zone on the map [4]:

Clubs and live-music venues make up 5 of the 17. If you want a club, the map puts 2 inside the zone, both within about 380 metres of Peckham Rye station. If you want a rooftop bar, it puts 2, both within about 200 metres [1][4]. Treat the table as a sample, because the map only holds venues we can place from open data [4]. The app's own catalogue is a separate list, and a venue placed in the wrong category would shift these counts.

Another 6 venues on the map sit within 300 metres outside the zone's edge, 4 of them pubs [3][4]. The server reads the zone from your phone's location when you clock in, so at those venues the 1.3× applies only if you are standing inside the boundary [8].

This post gives no opening hours, so check with the venue before you go. To find how late a venue may serve, see how London's licensing hours work. The Peckham zone page lists venues by name and category, and the London nightlife map shows where the zone runs.

Getting home

No night trains. The Windrush line runs all night on Friday and Saturday nights, but only between Highbury & Islington and New Cross Gate, and Peckham Rye is not on that stretch [2]. New Cross Gate is about 1.6 kilometres beyond the zone's eastern edge [1][3]. From Peckham itself, the night bus is the way home.

Night buses. TfL runs buses through the night on all seven nights, not only on Friday and Saturday [5][6]. Ten routes have a timetabled bus in every hour from 01:00 to 04:59, on all seven nights and in both directions, from stops inside the zone [5]:

Routes 12, 36, 37 and 345 run around the clock; the six N routes run only at night [5]. Journey Planner and the TfL Go app plan the trip, and TfL's website shows when the next bus is due at your stop [6].

Cabs. Hail only a black cab, and book any minicab in an app, by phone or at the operator's office. TfL calls an unbooked minicab illegal and uninsured for passengers [6]. Our Soho guide sets out the rest of TfL's rules.

Peckham on MYSOVA

MYSOVA is a London social passport: clock in at bars, pubs and clubs, earn XP and meet people where you go. Peckham's zone carries 1.3×, level with Bermondsey, Clerkenwell, Islington and King's Cross [3]. At most venues a clock-in on the Free plan starts from 25 XP; the zone makes it 32.5, which the server rounds to 33. The paid Explorer (£7.99 a month) and Icon (£14.99 a month) plans multiply it again [8]. How clocking in and XP work covers the rest of the sum, and Brixton for a night out covers the zone 2.5 kilometres to the west.

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Sources

All fetched or read on 27 October 2026 and checked again on 3 November 2026, except the venue map, whose data is dated 20 October 2026.

1. TfL Unified API, StopPoint?lat=51.47335&lon=-0.06958&radius=2000&stopTypes=NaptanMetroStation,NaptanRailStation: fare zones, lines and positions for Peckham Rye (910GPCKHMRY), Queens Road Peckham (910GPCKHMQD), New Cross Gate (910GNEWXGTE) and others; StopPoint?lat=51.47335&lon=-0.06958&radius=4000&stopTypes=NaptanMetroStation&modes=tube for the nearest Underground stations, including Bermondsey (940GZZLUBMY). Distances in straight lines.
2. TfL Unified API, Line/windrush/Route/Sequence/outbound (regular and night services) and Line/Mode/tube,overground,elizabeth-line/Route?serviceTypes=Night; Transport for London, "The Night Tube": https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/tube/night-tube.
3. MYSOVA zones: the site's copy of the production zones table (id, multiplier, polygon), read on 21 October 2026. Area, extents and distances measured from the zone polygons, in straight lines.
4. MYSOVA open-data venue map, as published at /map-data/venues.json (data as of 20 October 2026): 2,315 London venues placed from Overture Maps Places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0; Apache-2.0 for Foursquare; CC0-1.0 for AllThePlaces) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0), with the FSA Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Open Government Licence v3.0) for outward postcodes. Categories are MYSOVA's own. Zone membership by point-in-polygon against source 3.
5. TfL Unified API: StopPoint?lat=51.47335&lon=-0.06958&radius=450&modes=bus (22 bus stops); Line/{route}/Route for each route's end stops; Line/{route}/Timetable/{stop} for each route's timetable at each of those stops, in both directions.
6. Transport for London, "Safer travel at night": https://tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/your-safety-and-security/safer-travel-at-night.
7. postcodes.io, reverse geocoding of each venue point to its nearest postcode and that postcode's local authority.
8. The MYSOVA app's source at origin/main (e57b7fad2): secure_checkin_v2_core_streak and quote_checkin_xp_v1 (supabase/migrations/20260729180000_event_bonus_display_tier.sql) for the zone lookup from your location, the 25 XP venue line, the rounding and the plan multipliers; plan prices from the shared tier constants.

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