Pharmacies Open Now in Bangor (NI)
39 of 54 pharmacies near Bangor (NI) are open right now. Find a Pharmacy pulls live opening hours from NHS data and the most recent pharmacy rota, so you only see chemists that are actually open, not just the ones that are meant to be. Tap any result for directions, the phone number and today’s full opening schedule. For late-night and 24-hour cover, see the links below.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I find a pharmacy open now in Bangor (NI)?
Enter your postcode or allow location access at the top of this page. Find a Pharmacy will show every pharmacy within five miles of you in Bangor (NI), sorted by distance, with a live open-or-closed badge on each one. Tap a result to call, get directions, or see today’s opening hours.
- What if no pharmacy is open when I need medication?
If every nearby pharmacy is shut, Find a Pharmacy shows the address and phone number of the nearest pharmacy that will open next, along with an NHS 111 quick-dial for urgent medication advice. Call NHS 111 free, any time of day, for prescription emergencies; they can arrange an emergency supply from an on-call pharmacy anywhere in the UK.
- Does Bangor (NI) have a 24-hour pharmacy?
That depends on the live NHS opening-hours data for each Bangor (NI) pharmacy, and very few UK cities have a true round-the-clock chemist. See our 24-hour pharmacies in Bangor (NI) page for the honest answer; it tells you straight whether a 24-hour pharmacy exists, or lists the latest-closing alternatives and the nearest out-of-hours service if it doesn’t.
- How accurate are the opening hours?
Find a Pharmacy uses the NHSBSA Consolidated Pharmaceutical List for the pharmacy directory and pulls live opening hours from each pharmacy’s NHS.uk profile, updated weekly. Bank holiday rota data, where published by your local NHS region, overrides the standard NHS hours so you never get sent to a shut shop on Christmas Day or Easter Monday. If you spot an error, please let us know.
- Is Find a Pharmacy free?
Yes. Find a Pharmacy is free for everyone, forever. No sign-up, no tracking for ad-targeting, no install gate. We use privacy-friendly analytics (Plausible) to count anonymous visits. The data we rely on is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
About pharmacies in Bangor (NI)
- 18 pharmacies serve the Bangor (NI) area
- The nearest chemist is Gmac Health Ltd (0 miles away).
- Hours last verified: 22 May 2026
Finding a pharmacy open now in Bangor, Northern Ireland
Bangor is a coastal town on the south side of Belfast Lough in County Down, twelve miles east of Belfast city centre. It gained city status in 2022 as part of the Platinum Jubilee honours. The pharmacy network covers the High Street and Main Street city centre, the Bloomfield Shopping Centre and the residential neighbourhoods of Ballyholme, Groomsport Road, Bryansburn and Donaghadee Road. This page covers Bangor in Northern Ireland; the slug "bangor-ni" deliberately disambiguates from Bangor in Gwynedd, north Wales.
Bangor's pharmacy provision is concentrated in the city centre and around the larger supermarket sites, where pharmacies attached to Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's follow store trading hours. Smaller community pharmacies in the residential streets keep more traditional weekday hours and reduced Saturday cover.
The community-pharmacy directory for Bangor comes from the Business Services Organisation (BSO) monthly dispensing-by-contractor dataset, published on OpenDataNI under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Bangor falls within the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, the same trust that covers Lisburn, Newtownards, Bangor and Downpatrick.
The Ulster Hospital at Dundonald, eight miles to the west, is the nearest major acute hospital for Bangor residents. Its on-site pharmacy serves clinical activity and is not a public out-of-hours community dispenser.
For urgent medication outside community-pharmacy hours, call NHS 111 (free, 24 hours). NHS 111 covers the South Eastern HSC Trust area.
FAQ
Is this the Bangor in Northern Ireland or the one in Wales? This is Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland, on the south side of Belfast Lough. Bangor in Gwynedd, north Wales has its own city page at /open-now/bangor-wales (when published); the two cities share a name but sit in different countries, with different data sources and different healthcare systems.
Do NHS prescription charges apply in Bangor, Northern Ireland? No. Northern Ireland abolished NHS prescription charges in April 2010, so prescriptions dispensed at Bangor pharmacies are free at the point of dispensing.
Are Bangor pharmacies open on summer Sundays during the tourist season? City-centre chemists in Bangor typically keep some Sunday cover during the summer months when visitor footfall is higher, particularly the larger supermarket-attached branches. Use Find a Pharmacy's Sunday filter to see which chemists are confirmed open on the day you need them.