Ghent · January
Where to go from Ghent in January
202 places you can reach by train, coach or ferry within eight hours, leaving on a weekday morning, and what January is like in each: the warmth and the rain on average, the daylight, and what's on.
Good for January
Something on, mild weather, not too far: our reading of the month, not a ranking of the places.
- Rotterdam 2h 04 Netherlands Highs of 6°, and International Film Festival Rotterdam and 1 more on.
- Leiden 2h 47 Netherlands Leidsche blues- en jazzweek.
- Bristol 4h 58 United Kingdom Highs of 8°, and Slapstick Silent Film Festival.
- Cardiff 5h 12 United Kingdom Winter Wonderland.
- Solothurn 7h 27 Switzerland Solothurn Film Festival.
On in January
- International Film Festival Rotterdam in Rotterdam 2h 04
- Six Days of Rotterdam in Rotterdam 2h 04
- Leidsche blues- en jazzweek in Leiden 2h 47
- Slapstick Silent Film Festival in Bristol 4h 58
- Winter Wonderland in Cardiff 5h 12
- Solothurn Film Festival in Solothurn 7h 27
Most happen every year in January; each city's page has the dates when they're known.
Everywhere within eight hours
Nearest first. In Ghent, January has 8 h 24 of daylight.
- Sint-Niklaas · Belgium 29 min — 8 h 23
- Brussels · Belgium 37 min 1–6° 76 mm 8 h 26
- Bruges · Belgium 40 min — 8 h 23
- Kortrijk · Belgium 46 min — 8 h 26
- Aalst · Belgium 46 min — 8 h 25
- Antwerp · Belgium 47 min 1–7° 70 mm 8 h 23
- Ostend · Belgium 56 min — 8 h 23
- Kraainem · Belgium 1h · 1 ch 1–6° 71 mm 8 h 26
- Leuven · Belgium 1h 09 — 8 h 25
- Mechelen · Belgium 1h 11 · 1 ch — 8 h 24
- Lier · Belgium 1h 22 · 1 ch — 8 h 23
- Lille · France 1h 28 · 1 ch 2–7° 58 mm 8 h 28
- Ypres · Belgium 1h 49 — 8 h 26
- Hasselt · Belgium 1h 54 · 1 ch — 8 h 25
- Ath · Belgium 2h · 2 ch — 8 h 28
- Liège · Belgium 2h 04 — 8 h 28
- Charleroi · Belgium 2h 04 · 1 ch — 8 h 30
- Rotterdam · Netherlands 2h 04 · 1 ch 1–6° 71 mm 8 h 16 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Six Days of Rotterdam
- Paris · France 2h 07 · 1 ch 3–8° 48 mm 8 h 42
- Schiedam · Netherlands 2h 13 · 2 ch — 8 h 17
- Delft · Netherlands 2h 19 · 2 ch — 8 h 16
- Breda · Netherlands 2h 21 · 1 ch — 8 h 19
- Namur · Belgium 2h 21 · 1 ch — 8 h 29
- The Hague · Netherlands 2h 32 · 2 ch 2–6° 70 mm 8 h 15
- Saint-Cloud · France 2h 33 · 3 ch — 8 h 42
- Maastricht · Netherlands 2h 39 · 1 ch — 8 h 26
- Tilburg · Netherlands 2h 42 · 2 ch — 8 h 20
- Dordrecht · Netherlands 2h 46 · 3 ch — 8 h 18
- Leiden · Netherlands 2h 47 · 2 ch — 8 h 14 Leidsche blues- en jazzweek
- Amsterdam · Netherlands 2h 52 · 1 ch 1–6° 66 mm 8 h 12
- Versailles · France 2h 56 · 3 ch — 8 h 42
- Gouda · Netherlands 2h 58 · 3 ch — 8 h 16
- London · United Kingdom 2h 59 · 1 ch 3–8° 59 mm 8 h 20
- Kerkrade · Netherlands 3h 01 · 2 ch — 8 h 26
- 's-Hertogenbosch · Netherlands 3h 03 · 2 ch — 8 h 19
- Valkenburg aan de Geul · Netherlands 3h 05 · 1 ch — 8 h 26
- Disneyland Paris · France 3h 05 · 3 ch — 8 h 42
- Zaandam · Netherlands 3h 06 · 2 ch — 8 h 12
- Haarlem · Netherlands 3h 07 · 3 ch — 8 h 12
- Weesp · Netherlands 3h 07 · 2 ch — 8 h 13
Journeys from Ghent's stations on a Tuesday from 08:00, waiting for the train included, from published timetables as of 19 October 2026. Temperatures and rain are long-term averages from each city's Wikivoyage article (CC BY-SA); daylight is worked out for the middle of the month.
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