11.9 miles•18 to 25 minutes•Fixed fares from £38.97•Booking 24 hours a day
A taxi from Horsham, West Sussex to London Gatwick Airport covers 11.9 miles — 19.2 km — from the town centre, driven typically in 18 to 25 minutes. A saloon for up to four people is £38.97, agreed before you travel and fixed for the direction booked. We collect from your door at any RH12 or RH13 address and set you down at North Terminal or South Terminal.
The county belongs in that sentence for a reason. There is a Horsham in Victoria, Australia, and at least one distance service answers this query with its figures.
Fares are calculated on distance and vehicle class. Your final fixed fare is confirmed at booking against your exact RH postcode, and the quoted fare is fixed for the direction booked. Actual distance and traffic conditions may affect the amount. Third-party figures were checked on 4 August 2026 and each carries its source.
Horsham (West Sussex, RH12–RH13) to London Gatwick Airport (LGW, Crawley, West Sussex)
We are a private hire operator running fixed-fare airport transfers between Horsham and London Gatwick, door to door, at any hour. A driver collects you from the address you give us rather than from a rank or a stop. The fare is computed from your exact postcode against our published rate card and agreed before you travel, so it does not move with a meter, a clock or the traffic. You choose the vehicle, or we size one to the party and the cases. And the booking names the terminal, so nobody is guessing at the kerb.
From a saloon for four to an eight-seater, with executive options either side. Sized to the party and the cases rather than the head count alone.
North Terminal and South Terminal are served in both directions, and inbound bookings are timed from the flight rather than the schedule.
A postcode, a date, a party size and a terminal. Everything else follows from those four.
£38.97 for a saloon carrying up to four passengers, from the town centre, over 11.9 miles. That figure is agreed before you travel and fixed for the direction you book. Larger vehicles run to £56.49, so the whole fleet sits inside a band of £17.52.
On price, for one to five passengers, a direct train from Horsham to the airport station beats every figure here, and a national-cap bus fare beats every party size we carry. Our fixed fare earns its money in four situations: when the party is six or more, when the luggage will not go through a barrier, when the flight lands or leaves outside the hours the trains run, or when the pickup is one of the 18 settlements that answer to Horsham but have no station of their own. Both sets of arithmetic are published in full further down.
| Vehicle | Seats and cases | Fixed fareGBP | How it is calculated | Per head at capacityGBP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saloon | Up to 4 passengers / 3 cases | £38.97 | £30.00 + 6.9 × £1.30 | £9.74 at 4 |
| Estate | Up to 5 passengers / 4 cases | £40.52 | £31.20 + 6.9 × £1.35 | £8.10 at 5 |
| MPV5 | Up to 5 passengers | £42.87 | £33.00 + 6.9 × £1.43 | £8.57 at 5 |
| MPV6 | Up to 6 passengers / 5 bags | £44.85 | £34.50 + 6.9 × £1.50 | £7.48 at 6 |
| MPV7 | Up to 7 passengers | £48.75 | £37.50 + 6.9 × £1.63 | £6.96 at 7 |
| MPV8 (8-seater) | Up to 8 passengers | £50.66 | £39.00 + 6.9 × £1.69 | £6.33 at 8 |
| Executive (Mercedes E-Class) | Up to 4 passengers | £48.42 | £36.00 + 6.9 × £1.80 | £12.11 at 4 |
| Executive MPV (Mercedes V-Class) | Up to 6 passengers | £56.49 | £42.00 + 6.9 × £2.10 | £9.42 at 6 |
Three published saloon fares for this pair were collected on 4 August 2026, running from £35.82 to £77.00 — a spread of £41.18 and a ratio of 2.15 to one, for the same car over the same road on the same day.
Our £38.97 sits inside that band rather than at either end: one figure is £3.15 below ours, one is £3.35 above, and the £77.00 at the top is priced against a distance 16.1 miles beyond the real journey, which makes it an outlier rather than a comparison. We name none of the three.
Our rate card charges a minimum for the first five miles and a per-mile rate after that. On an 11.9-mile journey the meter side covers only 6.9 miles — £30.00 of the £38.97, against £8.97 of running.
On a long journey those eight classes spread across three figures. Here they sit inside £17.52 of one another, because most of what you pay is the same on every one of them. Moving from a saloon to an eight-seater adds £11.69. Moving from Roffey to Partridge Green adds £10.14 without changing the car at all.
Get your fixed Horsham to Gatwick fare or call +44 20 3617 7825.
Because Horsham is not one point on a map. It is a post town covering two postcode districts and at least 18 named settlements, and the nearest of them to the airport sits 7.8 miles closer than the furthest. Across the whole journey that is 66 per cent, and on our rate card it is worth £10.14 on a saloon.
| Where in Horsham | Postcode | Road miles to terminal | Saloon fareGBP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roffey | RH12 4 | 10.4 | £37.02 |
| Horsham town centre (the Carfax) | RH12 1 | 11.9 | £38.97 — the fare table anchor |
| Southwater | RH13 9 | 15.2 | Quoted from the address |
| Rudgwick | RH12 3 | 17.7 | Quoted from the address |
| Partridge Green | RH13 8 | 18.2 | £47.16 |
A pickup at Roffey costs less than the town-centre figure, not more. A pickup at Partridge Green costs more. A single town-wide price runs £10.14 too high for one end of Horsham or £10.14 too low for the other. Quoting from the address is the only way to be neither.
We cover RH12 and RH13 — two postcode districts, ten geographic sectors, and at least 18 named settlements that answer to the word Horsham. Six pickup points by name:
Roffey in RH12 4 and Partridge Green in RH13 8 are both Horsham. Both sit inside the two districts covered here. They are 7.8 miles apart on a journey the town centre measures at 11.9, and the same rate card returns £37.02 for one and £47.16 for the other.
So we ask for three things at booking: a full postcode rather than a district name, a house name or number, and — where the pickup is a station, a hospital or a large site — the name of the building. Here that is not a nicety. It is the difference between a quote that fits your journey and one that fits an average.
| Sector | What it covers | Covered here? |
|---|---|---|
| RH12 1 | Horsham town centre | Yes |
| RH12 2 | Horsham | Yes |
| RH12 3 | Broadbridge Heath, Rudgwick, Warnham | Yes |
| RH12 4 | Horsham, Roffey, Rusper | Yes |
| RH12 5 | Horsham | Yes |
| RH13 0 | Slinfold, Barns Green, Christ's Hospital, Horsham | Yes |
| RH13 5 | Horsham | Yes |
| RH13 6 | Horsham, Mannings Heath, Lower Beeding | Yes |
| RH13 8 | Partridge Green, Cowfold, Shipley | Yes |
| RH13 9 | Southwater | Yes |
| RH10 and RH11 | Crawley | No — separate post town |
11.9 miles — 19.2 km — by road from the town centre, read from a routing engine on 4 August 2026. The drive is typically 18 to 25 minutes, with an honest band of 15 to 30 depending on the roundabouts at the Crawley end.
| Condition | Realistic timeminutes | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Off-peak and clear | 15 to 18 | The A264 is a fast road out of Horsham and the airport approach is short |
| Weekday peak | 18 to 25 | Crawley's roundabouts, not the open road, are the constraint |
| Incident on the M23 or the airport approach | 25 to 30 | The only realistic way this journey doubles |
The road explains the narrow band. The A264 runs east from Horsham's northern bypass towards Crawley, meets the Copthorne Link Road and joins the M23 at junction 10. The airport spur leaves the motorway at the northern end, and the A23 sits alongside as the alternative when the motorway is closed. There is no motorway-length section to go wrong, which is why the honest drive-time band here is narrow where every long journey we run has a wide one.
Seven published figures were collected for this pair and they span 10.4 to 28.0 miles. Two separate things are going on, and they are worth keeping apart.
Three engines measuring the same pair span 10.4 to 12.0 miles, because different engines pick different points inside a town of this size. Any of them is defensible. The town-centre routing of 11.9 miles is the middle one, and the one we publish.
A distance service answers this query with 10,349.8 miles — 870 times the real journey. Not a typing error, and not a rounding fault: it is the distance to Horsham in Victoria, Australia, which shares the name.
We never publish that figure and never link to it, and the county appears in the title, the heading and the opening sentence for exactly that reason. Someone has also published a straight-line figure of 11.1 miles for this pair. It never appears in our pricing — over a journey this short a straight line lands close enough to the road distance to look authoritative, and cars do not fly.
Over a drive of 18 to 25 minutes the road does not decide the pickup time — the airport's own advice on when to be at the terminal decides it. Give us the flight number rather than a departure time and we work the pickup backwards from it.
The specific risk here points the opposite way from every long journey we run. The danger is not leaving too little time for the road; it is trusting a drive of 18 to 25 minutes so completely that you book the car for the last possible moment. The whole drive is shorter than the check-in queue. If the roads are worse than expected, your fare does not change — it was agreed before travel and it stays where it was.
From 6 January 2026, London Gatwick charges £10.00 to stop at a terminal for up to 10 minutes, then £1.00 a minute to a ceiling of £30.00. Pay by midnight the day after your visit; miss that and the penalty is £100.00, falling to £60.00 if you pay within 14 days. For a journey this short, that deserves as much space as the fare table above it.
The airport charges £7.00 for the first 30 minutes in the Short Stay car park, £13.00 to 60 minutes and £20.00 to 120. Add that to the £10.00 drop-off and both ends together are £17.00 before a single mile is driven. Across a sixty-mile journey those charges disappear into the noise. Here they do not.
The Long Stay car park is free for 120 minutes, with a shuttle to the terminals every 10 to 12 minutes — around 5 minutes to North Terminal and 7 to 12 to South. For a short-notice pickup that is a workable alternative to paying at the barrier, and it is named here rather than left out.
Two guides give £10.00 for up to 10 minutes. A third gives the same £10.00 for twenty minutes. The fee agrees; the time does not. We publish the two-source ten-minute window, name the airport as the body that sets it, and do not repeat the third figure. Whether that charge sits inside your quoted fare or is shown as a separate line is stated on your booking confirmation — the airport levies it directly, and we do not set it.
London Gatwick has two terminals, North and South. There are no numbered terminals — writing "Terminal 3" would be an error, not just an aesthetic one.
They sit on opposite sides of the railway and no car crosses between them quickly. A booking made against the wrong terminal causes more missed meetings here than anything else. One point worth naming: the railway station is at South Terminal, and the bus route that serves this journey terminates there too. Anyone who has taken either before will assume every arrival is at South Terminal, and roughly half are not.
Give us the flight number at booking rather than a time. We watch the flight, so the pickup is timed from the actual landing rather than from the booked schedule. Land early and the driver is there early; land two hours late and nothing needs rebooking.
Sixty minutes of complimentary waiting after landing is included, and it is stated in your booking confirmation. The driver meets you inside Arrivals with a name-board carrying your surname, on a meet-and-greet booking.
For one to five passengers, yes — and we would rather say so than let you find out. A direct train runs from Horsham railway station to the airport station in South Terminal, from £7.60 single. The fastest working we found is 18 minutes; the average is nearer 25, and all three sources checked agree within a couple of minutes. Against our £38.97 saloon, that single is 5.1 times cheaper for one person.
| Passengers | Our fitting vehicle | Train tickets @ £7.60total, GBP | Our fixed fareGBP | Which is less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saloon | £7.60 | £38.97 | Train, by £31.37 |
| 2 | Saloon | £15.20 | £38.97 | Train, by £23.77 |
| 3 | Saloon | £22.80 | £38.97 | Train, by £16.17 |
| 4 | Saloon | £30.40 | £38.97 | Train, by £8.57 |
| 5 | Estate | £38.00 | £40.52 | Train, by £2.52 |
| 6 | MPV6 | £45.60 | £44.85 | Us, by £0.75 — thin |
| 7 | MPV7 | £53.20 | £48.75 | Us, by £4.45 |
| 8 | MPV8 | £60.80 | £50.66 | Us, by £10.14 |
The crossover falls at six passengers, and we are not going to overstate it. The margin at five runs £2.52 in the train's favour; at six, £0.75 in ours — thin enough that anyone choosing on price alone could reasonably go either way. The first party size where the case for the car is unarguable on money is eight. Source: thetrainline.com, checked 4 August 2026.
The train wins on price to five passengers, and it wins on time between the two stations. It does not win on the walk to Horsham station at your end. Nor does it win on a 05:00 pickup before the first train, on a landing after the last train has run, on four cases between two people, or on a child asleep in a car seat. Those are conditions rather than claims, which is why we list them rather than argue them.
We checked three retailers for how often the train runs and got three different answers — a daily count, a much smaller daily count, and a weekly total that squared with neither. We publish the fare, which all three support within £0.40, and the journey time, which all three put inside half an hour. We do not publish a service count, because three sources could not be got to agree on one.
Yes, at every party size we carry. This section costs us more to write honestly than any other here, so we write it without hedging. A single fare on route 200 from Horsham to the airport is £3.00 while the national fare cap applies, to 31 December 2026, stepping down to £2.00 from 1 January 2027.
| Passengers | Our fitting vehicle | Bus singles @ £3.00total, GBP | Our fixed fareGBP | Bus cheaper byGBP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saloon | £3.00 | £38.97 | £35.97 |
| 2 | Saloon | £6.00 | £38.97 | £32.97 |
| 3 | Saloon | £9.00 | £38.97 | £29.97 |
| 4 | Saloon | £12.00 | £38.97 | £26.97 |
| 5 | Estate | £15.00 | £40.52 | £25.52 |
| 6 | MPV6 | £18.00 | £44.85 | £26.85 |
| 7 | MPV7 | £21.00 | £48.75 | £27.75 |
| 8 | MPV8 | £24.00 | £50.66 | £26.66 |
At eight passengers, eight capped singles come to £24.00 against our £50.66 for one vehicle. The bus is still £26.66 ahead. There is no group size where the arithmetic turns in our favour, and we do not pretend there is. Source: gov.uk, checked 4 August 2026.
Time and handling. Route 200 takes 42 to 63 minutes against a routed 18 minutes by road from the same town centre, with 11 intermediate stopping points, a walk to a stop at the Horsham end, and cases carried on and off the vehicle rather than staying in a boot. For one person travelling light at a civilised hour the bus is a sensible answer, and that is worth saying plainly.
The operator's own route-200 fare table gives £4.60 as the highest adult single, dated 1 January 2025. The national cap of £3.00 overrides that until 31 December 2026, and the operator's table has not been re-issued since a fare revision landed on 30 March 2026. We use the binding figure of £3.00 and will re-check before the cap steps down. The service number is given so you can find a timetable; for the stop list, check the operator's own timetable on the day.
Three genuine options, and on this route the short one is not automatically ours.
| Option | Direct? | Typical journey | Published cost | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxi | Yes | 18–25 minutes | Fixed from £38.97 per vehicle | Door-to-door travel, six or more passengers, cases, hours outside the timetable |
| Train | Yes | 18–25 minutes station to station | From £7.60 per person | One to five passengers travelling light |
| Bus (route 200) | Yes | 42–63 minutes, 11 stops | £3.00 capped single per person | Ticket price above everything else |
The train matches us on time between the two stations and beats us on price to five passengers. The bus beats us on price at every size and loses to us on time by roughly forty minutes. What separates the car is what happens either side of the journey: a door instead of a station, a boot instead of a barrier, and a departure at an hour of your choosing rather than the timetable's.
Party size changes this journey more than anything except the address. The saloon at £38.97 carries up to four with three cases; for four adults with four large cases, the estate at £40.52 is the right call — £1.55 more for a boot that fits.
The saloon at £38.97 carries up to four with three cases. The estate at £40.52 adds a much larger boot for £1.55 more.
The MPV6 at £44.85 seats six with five bags, the MPV7 at £48.75 seats seven, and the MPV8 at £50.66 seats eight — £6.33 a head, the strongest per-person figure here.
A short journey does not make a boot bigger. Skis, golf clubs, musical instrument cases and pushchairs all fit somewhere in the fleet; they just need mentioning at booking so the right vehicle turns up.
The Executive Mercedes E-Class at £48.42 seats up to four. The Executive MPV Mercedes V-Class at £56.49 seats six. Both for business travel where the cabin matters as much as the seat count.
For a party larger than eight, call rather than book online. The published fleet stops at eight seats and we do not promise a larger vehicle than it contains. Child seats are provided free and must be requested in advance — say the age when you book and we fit the correct stage, infant carrier, forward-facing seat or booster. Wheelchairs and mobility aids are carried; tell us the folded dimensions.
Four in a saloon is £9.74 each. Five in an estate is £8.10. Six in an MPV6 is £7.48, seven in an MPV7 is £6.96, and eight in an MPV8 is £6.33 — the strongest per-person figure here. The same per-head figures sit in the fare table above, beside each class.
Everyone travels together with the cases in the boot and one price for the vehicle. Set against the alternatives at that same size: eight rail singles at £7.60 come to £60.80, so we are £10.14 ahead. Eight capped bus singles come to £24.00, so the bus is £26.66 ahead of us. Both figures matter to anyone deciding at eight people, and both are here.
Early departures. A flight leaving before the first train, which runs from just after 04:00, has no rail option at all. That is the clearest case on this route for being driven. A 05:00 pickup from a Horsham street is routine; we ask only for a little more notice than a same-day booking so the vehicle and driver are confirmed.
Roughly a third of these journeys run from the airport rather than towards it, so we write the return direction properly rather than assuming it. The service is the same in reverse: a fixed fare computed from the drop-off postcode, flight tracking on the inbound leg, and the terminal named at booking. Two saloon singles between the town centre and the airport come to £77.94, and the quoted fare is fixed for each direction booked. If you need both legs, tell us at booking and we quote each.
Three things matter coming the other way. Tell us the terminal, because North and South sit on opposite sides of the railway. Send the flight number, so the pickup is timed from the actual landing. And give the drop-off address in full, for the same reason we ask for it outbound — the fare is built from the address.
Sixty minutes of complimentary waiting after landing is included, and the driver meets you inside Arrivals with a name-board carrying your surname.
The ten questions we are asked most often about this journey.
A saloon for up to 4 people is £38.97 from the town centre, agreed before you travel and fixed for the direction you book. Larger vehicles run up to £56.49, so the whole fleet sits inside a band of £17.52. Every figure comes off the same rate card over 11.9 miles.
Three published saloon fares for this pair, collected 4 August 2026, ran from £35.82 to £77.00 — a ratio of 2.15 to one for the same car over the same road. Ours at £38.97 sits inside that band: one figure is £3.15 below and one £3.35 above. The £77.00 is built on a distance 16.1 miles longer than the real journey, so it is an outlier rather than a comparison.
It can, and the working is shown here rather than sprung on you at the door. Roffey in RH12 4 sits 10.4 miles from the airport; Partridge Green in RH13 8 sits 18.2. Both are Horsham, and the same rate card returns £37.02 for one and £47.16 for the other. Hence a booking form that asks for a full postcode rather than a town name.
We plan on 11.9 miles (19.2 km) from the town centre, read from a routing engine on 4 August 2026. Published answers vary a great deal — seven of them run from 10.4 to 28.0 miles, and one distance service answered for a town of the same name on another continent. Worth knowing which distance a quote is built on, and which Horsham.
Typically 18 to 25 minutes, with an honest band of 15 to 30 depending on the roundabouts at the Crawley end. On a journey this short the drive is the smallest part of your plan, because the check-in queue outlasts the road. Send us the flight number and we work the pickup backwards from it. Your fare does not change whichever way the traffic falls.
For 1 to 5 people, yes. A direct single from £7.60 means 6 singles come to £45.60 against £44.85 for one vehicle carrying all six, a margin of £0.75 that is only clear by 8 passengers. What the ticket does not buy is a door, a boot, or a departure at an hour when the trains are not running.
Yes, at every party size we carry, and there is no point pretending otherwise. While the national cap of £3.00 applies, 8 singles come to £24.00 against £50.66 for one vehicle. You are paying us for the 18-minute drive against 42 to 63 minutes on the bus, for skipping 11 intermediate stops, and for cases that stay in the boot rather than coming on and off with you.
RH12 and RH13 — two districts covering 10 sectors and at least 18 settlements that answer to the word Horsham. RH10 and RH11 are Crawley rather than Horsham, and a separate page covers them. Our booking form asks for a postcode rather than a town name for exactly the reason set out at the top of this page.
Both, and we ask at booking. London Gatwick has North Terminal and South Terminal — no numbered terminals — and they sit on opposite sides of the railway with a shuttle between them. The railway station is at South Terminal, which is why anyone who has taken the train before sometimes assumes that is the whole airport.
Yes, in either direction, and telling us both legs at booking means your inbound driver already has your flight details. Two saloon singles between the town centre and the airport come to £77.94, quoted and fixed for each direction booked.
A fixed fare from £38.97 confirmed before you travel, computed at 11.9 miles from the town centre against your exact RH postcode. A vehicle sized for the party and the cases. Pickup from any RH12 or RH13 address at any hour, day or night. A driver meeting your inbound flight, tracking the aircraft, with the meeting terminal confirmed in your booking.
Book online at stanstedairport-taxi.com or by phone on +44 20 3617 7825, 24 hours a day.
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