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A Victorian English scientist and gentleman inventor, identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller, lives in Richmond, Surrey.

He explains to his weekly dinner guests that time is a fourth dimension and demonstrates a tabletop model machine for travelling through it. He reveals he has built a machine capable of carrying a person through time. At dinner the following week, a weary, bedraggled Traveller stumbles into the room and recounts to his guests what he has experienced on his journey to the future.

In the new narrative, the Time Traveller tests his device. At first, he thinks nothing has happened but soon finds out he went five hours into the future. He continues forward and sees his house disappear and turn into a lush garden. The Traveller stops in A.D. 802,701, where he meets the Eloi, a society of small, elegant, childlike humanoids. They live in small communities within large and futuristic yet slowly deteriorating buildings and adhere to a fruit-based diet. They appear happy and carefree but fear the dark, particularly moonless nights. After exploring the area around the Eloi’s community, the Traveller reaches the top of a hill overlooking what was once London and finds only the ruins of what had once been an impressive city. He concludes that the entire planet has become a garden, with little trace of human society.

Returning to the site where he arrived, the Traveller is shocked to find his machine missing; it has been dragged by some unknown party into a nearby structure, resembling a sphinx, with heavy doors locked from the inside. He realizes that the machine cannot travel through time without its levers, which he had removed before leaving it. Later, he encounters the Morlocks, an ape-like race who live in darkness underground and surface only at night. Figuring that this second race must have taken his time machine, he explores one of many “wells” that lead to the Morlocks’ dwellings, where he discovers them operating the machine.

Before narrowly escaping the tunnels, the Traveller also observes the "underworlders" eating a strange meat, which he cannot at first identify. He later comes to the horrific realization that the Morlocks raise the Eloi like cattle and then use them as a food supply.

Meanwhile, he rescues an Eloi named Weena from drowning, as none of the other Eloi take any notice of her plight, and with time, they develop an affectionate relationship. He takes Weena with him on an expedition to "The Palace of Green Porcelain", a distant structure which turns out to be a derelict museum. Here, the Traveller finds a fresh supply of matches and fashions a crude weapon against Morlocks, whom he must fight to recover his machine. He plans to take Weena back to his own time. However, because the long and tiring journey back to Weena’s home is too much for them, they stop in the forest for the night. They are eventually attacked by Morlocks, and Weena faints. The Traveller escapes when a small fire he had left behind them to repel the Morlocks turns into a forest fire, and the Traveller is devastated over his loss.

The Morlocks open the Sphinx and use the machine as bait to capture the Traveller, not understanding that he can use it to escape. He reattaches the levers before travelling further ahead to roughly 30 million years from his own time. There, he sees some of the last living things on a dying Earth: reddish, crab-like creatures slowly wandering the blood-red beaches chasing enormous butterflies, in a world covered in simple lichenoid vegetation. He continues to make jumps forward through time, seeing Earth's rotation gradually cease and the sun grow larger, redder, and dimmer, and the world falling silent and freezing as the last degenerate living things die out.

Overwhelmed, he returns to his own time, arriving at the laboratory just three hours after he originally left. He arrives late to his own dinner party, whereupon, after eating, the Traveller relates his adventures to his disbelieving visitors, producing as evidence two strange white flowers Weena had put in his pocket.

The original narrator relates that he returned to the Traveller's house the next day, finding him preparing for another journey and promising to return in a short time. After waiting for three years, however, the Narrator states that the Traveller has not returned from his journey.