39 colleges · 4 permanent private halls

Which Oxford colleges are lit tonight?

Every college sets its own rules. Some throw the quads open all afternoon for nothing, some sell timed tickets, some never open at all. Here's where each one stands, right now.

—open now
—free of those
—in Oxford
I

The night plan

Where the gates are open

Streets, rivers and parks are real Oxford geometry from OpenStreetMap. Dotted rings mark five minutes' walk from Carfax. Tap any college to jump to it.

Lit points are open now. Tap one to see its details.
II

Today's gates

Opening windows, hour by hour

Every college you can walk into today, set against the current hour.

open now open another hour today
III

The forty-three

Every college, and how to get in

Where the University's listing has proved reliable it is the source; where it hasn't, the college's own site is read directly. Each card says which.