Lyon · January
Where to go from Lyon in January
196 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. 6 of them are at least 4° warmer than Lyon.
Good for January
Something on, mild weather, not too far: our reading of the month, not a ranking of the places.
- Milan 5h 52 Italy Highs of 7°, and Corteo dei Re Magi.
- Solothurn 5h 01 Switzerland Solothurn Film Festival.
- Rotterdam 5h 34 Netherlands Highs of 6°, and International Film Festival Rotterdam and 1 more on.
- Leiden 6h 17 Netherlands Leidsche blues- en jazzweek.
- Bristol 7h 29 United Kingdom Highs of 8°, and Slapstick Silent Film Festival.
- Cardiff 7h 39 United Kingdom Winter Wonderland.
On in January
- Solothurn Film Festival in Solothurn 5h 01
- International Film Festival Rotterdam in Rotterdam 5h 34
- Six Days of Rotterdam in Rotterdam 5h 34
- Corteo dei Re Magi in Milan 5h 52
- Leidsche blues- en jazzweek in Leiden 6h 17
- Slapstick Silent Film Festival in Bristol 7h 29
- Winter Wonderland in Cardiff 7h 39
Most happen every year in January; each city's page has the dates when they're known.
Everywhere within eight hours
Nearest first. In Lyon, January has 9 h 04 of daylight and averages 1–7°.
- Saint-Étienne · France 58 min — 9 h 06
- Chambéry · France 1h 38 · 1 ch — 9 h 05
- Grenoble · France 1h 41 — 9 h 08
- Avignon · France 1h 47 · 1 ch — 9 h 15
- Dijon · France 1h 59 — 8 h 53
- Marseille · France 2h 06 4–12° 47 mm 9 h 19
- Annecy · France 2h 09 — 9 h 03
- Arles · France 2h 09 · 2 ch — 9 h 17
- Paris · France 2h 10 3–8° 48 mm 8 h 42
- Montpellier · France 2h 13 · 1 ch — 9 h 18
- Disneyland Paris · France 2h 19 — 8 h 42
- Aix-en-Provence · France 2h 23 · 1 ch — 9 h 18
- Orange · France 2h 29 · 2 ch — 9 h 14
- Geneva · Switzerland 2h 42 -1–5° 73 mm 9 h 01
- Saint-Cloud · France 2h 44 · 2 ch — 8 h 42
- Versailles · France 2h 56 · 2 ch — 8 h 42
- Fontainebleau · France 2h 58 · 1 ch — 8 h 45
- Béziers · France 3h 07 · 1 ch — 9 h 19
- Toulon · France 3h 09 — 9 h 20
- Reims · France 3h 16 · 2 ch — 8 h 39
- Amiens · France 3h 37 · 2 ch — 8 h 34
- Lille · France 3h 37 2–7° 58 mm 8 h 28
- Lausanne · Switzerland 3h 39 · 1 ch — 8 h 59
- Colmar · France 3h 51 — 8 h 48
- Perpignan · France 3h 59 · 1 ch 5–13° 60 mm 9 h 23
- Rouen · France 4h 01 · 2 ch — 8 h 37
- Vevey · Switzerland 4h 04 · 1 ch — 8 h 59
- Metz · France 4h 04 · 2 ch — 8 h 40
- Chartres · France 4h 08 · 2 ch — 8 h 45
- Basel · Switzerland 4h 10 · 1 ch 0–5° 48 mm 8 h 51
- Montreux · Switzerland 4h 11 · 1 ch — 8 h 59
- Brussels · Belgium 4h 17 · 2 ch 1–6° 76 mm 8 h 26
- Clermont-Ferrand · France 4h 22 · 1 ch — 9 h 04
- Turin · Italy 4h 25 · 2 ch -2–8° 48 mm 9 h 08
- Strasbourg · France 4h 26 — 8 h 44
- Rennes · France 4h 27 · 2 ch — 8 h 47
- Cannes · France 4h 29 — 9 h 18
- Fribourg · Switzerland 4h 34 · 1 ch — 8 h 57
- Nancy · France 4h 38 · 2 ch — 8 h 43
- Antibes · France 4h 42 — 9 h 18
Journeys from Lyon'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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