Grenoble · May
Where to go from Grenoble in May
111 places you can reach by train, coach or ferry within eight hours, leaving on a weekday morning, and what May is like in each: the warmth and the rain on average, the daylight, and what's on.
Good for May
Something on, mild weather, not too far: our reading of the month, not a ranking of the places.
- Lyon 1h 47 France Highs of 22°, and Nuits sonores.
- Turin 4h 25 Italy Highs of 22°, often wet, and Italian Environmental Film Festival and 1 more on.
- Zurich 6h 28 Switzerland Highs of 19°, often wet, and Videoex.
- Rennes 6h 27 France Rock'n Solex.
- Solothurn 6h 27 Switzerland Solothurner Literaturtage.
- Cannes 6h 34 France Cannes Film Festival and 2 more on.
On in May
- Nuits sonores in Lyon 1h 47
- Italian Environmental Film Festival in Turin 4h 25
- Turin Book Fair in Turin 4h 25
- Rock'n Solex in Rennes 6h 27
- Solothurner Literaturtage in Solothurn 6h 27
- Videoex in Zurich 6h 28
- Cannes Film Festival in Cannes 6h 34
- Critics' Week in Cannes 6h 34
- Directors' Fortnight in Cannes 6h 34
- Museo Mille Miglia in Brescia 6h 53
- Procession of the Holy Blood in Bruges in Bruges 6h 55
- Breda Jazz Festival in Breda 7h 21
- Gipsyfestival in Tilburg 7h 42
- Kattenstoet in Ypres 7h 49
Most happen every year in May; each city's page has the dates when they're known.
Everywhere within eight hours
Nearest first. In Grenoble, May has 14 h 51 of daylight.
- Chambéry · France 1h 05 — 14 h 54
- Lyon · France 1h 47 11–22° 81 mm 14 h 55 Nuits sonores
- Annecy · France 2h 31 · 1 ch — 14 h 56
- Saint-Étienne · France 2h 42 · 1 ch — 14 h 53
- Geneva · Switzerland 4h · 2 ch 9–20° 78 mm 14 h 58
- Paris · France 4h 06 · 1 ch 11–20° 69 mm 15 h 15
- Dijon · France 4h 09 · 2 ch — 15 h 05
- Turin · Italy 4h 25 · 1 ch 12–22° 145 mm 14 h 51 Italian Environmental Film Festival, Turin Book Fair
- Marseille · France 4h 27 · 1 ch 13–24° 38 mm 14 h 40
- Orange · France 4h 30 · 1 ch — 14 h 45
- Saint-Cloud · France 4h 33 · 3 ch — 15 h 15
- Disneyland Paris · France 4h 44 · 2 ch — 15 h 16
- Avignon · France 4h 50 · 2 ch — 14 h 44
- Montpellier · France 4h 54 · 1 ch — 14 h 42
- Versailles · France 4h 56 · 3 ch — 15 h 15
- Fontainebleau · France 4h 58 · 2 ch — 15 h 12
- Chamonix-Mont-Blanc · France 5h 05 · 4 ch 5–18° 121 mm 14 h 56
- Arles · France 5h 11 · 2 ch — 14 h 42
- Lausanne · Switzerland 5h 12 · 3 ch — 15 h
- Toulon · France 5h 12 · 2 ch — 14 h 39
- Basel · Switzerland 5h 25 · 2 ch 10–20° 98 mm 15 h 06
- Le Mans · France 5h 29 · 1 ch — 15 h 10
- Vevey · Switzerland 5h 30 · 3 ch — 14 h 59
- Colmar · France 5h 36 · 2 ch — 15 h 10
- Montreux · Switzerland 5h 38 · 3 ch — 14 h 59
- Strasbourg · France 5h 45 · 1 ch — 15 h 13
- Brussels · Belgium 5h 46 · 4 ch 9–18° 60 mm 15 h 30
- Reims · France 5h 49 · 4 ch — 15 h 18
- Lille · France 5h 50 · 3 ch 9–18° 62 mm 15 h 29
- Milan · Italy 5h 52 · 1 ch 13–25° 70 mm 14 h 53
- Aix-en-Provence · France 5h 52 · 2 ch — 14 h 41
- Rouen · France 6h · 3 ch — 15 h 20
- Clermont-Ferrand · France 6h 01 · 1 ch — 14 h 55
- Fribourg · Switzerland 6h 04 · 3 ch — 15 h 01
- Béziers · France 6h 08 · 1 ch — 14 h 40
- Chartres · France 6h 09 · 3 ch — 15 h 13
- Leysin · Switzerland 6h 10 · 4 ch — 14 h 58
- Amiens · France 6h 12 · 4 ch — 15 h 23
- Kraainem · Belgium 6h 14 · 6 ch 8–18° 70 mm 15 h 31
- Aarau · Switzerland 6h 16 · 4 ch — 15 h 05
Journeys from Grenoble'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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