Basel · December
Where to go from Basel in December
152 places you can reach by train, coach or ferry within eight hours, leaving on a weekday morning, and what December is like in each: the warmth and the rain on average, the daylight, and what's on. 5 of them are at least 4° warmer than Basel.
Good for December
Something on, mild weather, not too far: our reading of the month, not a ranking of the places.
On in December
- Soledurner Wiehnachtsmäret in Solothurn 1h
- Christmas Markets in Strasbourg 1h 41
- St Nicholas Day in Fribourg 1h 58
- Spengler Cup in Davos 3h 24
- Courmayeur Noir Film Festival in Como 3h 40
- Verbier Festival in Verbier 4h 19
- Courmayeur Noir Film Festival in Milan 4h 32
- Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck 5h 45
- Christmas Market in Lille 5h 50
- International Short Film Festival Leuven in Leuven 6h
- Torino Film Festival in Turin 6h 10
- Winterlicht in Schiedam 7h 13
- Mill Road Winter Fair in Cambridge 7h 45
- Museumplein in Amsterdam 7h 52
Most happen every year in December; each city's page has the dates when they're known.
Everywhere within eight hours
Nearest first. In Basel, December has 8 h 28 of daylight and averages 1–6°.
- Aarau · Switzerland 47 min · 1 ch — 8 h 29
- Solothurn · Switzerland 1h · 1 ch — 8 h 31 Soledurner Wiehnachtsmäret
- Zurich · Switzerland 1h 05 0–4° 83 mm 8 h 29
- Colmar · France 1h 06 — 8 h 23
- Lucerne · Switzerland 1h 07 -1–4° 78 mm 8 h 32
- Baden · Switzerland 1h 09 — 8 h 29
- Bern · Switzerland 1h 23 · 1 ch — 8 h 33
- Pfäffikon · Switzerland 1h 41 · 1 ch — 8 h 31
- Strasbourg · France 1h 41 — 8 h 19 Christmas Markets
- Thun · Switzerland 1h 55 — 8 h 34
- Fribourg · Switzerland 1h 58 · 1 ch — 8 h 34 St Nicholas Day
- Schaffhausen · Switzerland 1h 59 · 1 ch — 8 h 27
- St. Gallen · Switzerland 2h 24 · 1 ch — 8 h 29
- Chur · Switzerland 2h 24 — 8 h 34
- Lausanne · Switzerland 2h 28 · 1 ch — 8 h 36
- Interlaken · Switzerland 2h 45 · 1 ch — 8 h 35
- Vevey · Switzerland 2h 47 · 2 ch — 8 h 37
- Montreux · Switzerland 2h 53 · 2 ch — 8 h 37
- Geneva · Switzerland 2h 57 · 2 ch 0–6° 90 mm 8 h 39
- Lugano · Switzerland 3h · 1 ch — 8 h 40
- Sion · Switzerland 3h 03 · 1 ch — 8 h 38
- Bregenz · Austria 3h 05 · 1 ch — 8 h 28
- Dijon · France 3h 13 · 1 ch — 8 h 30
- Locarno · Switzerland 3h 13 · 2 ch — 8 h 39
- Dornbirn · Austria 3h 22 · 2 ch — 8 h 29
- Davos · Switzerland 3h 24 · 1 ch — 8 h 34 Spengler Cup
- Paris · France 3h 40 4–8° 62 mm 8 h 17
- Como · Italy 3h 40 · 2 ch — 8 h 42 Courmayeur Noir Film Festival
- Feldkirch · Austria 3h 44 · 1 ch — 8 h 30
- Reims · France 3h 46 · 2 ch — 8 h 13
- Leysin · Switzerland 3h 48 · 3 ch — 8 h 38
- Nancy · France 3h 49 · 1 ch — 8 h 18
- Varese · Italy 3h 56 · 2 ch — 8 h 42
- Lauterbrunnen · Switzerland 3h 58 · 2 ch — 8 h 36
- Wengen BE · Switzerland 3h 58 · 2 ch — 8 h 35
- Grindelwald · Switzerland 4h 02 · 2 ch — 8 h 35
- Saint-Cloud · France 4h 03 · 2 ch — 8 h 17
- St. Moritz · Switzerland 4h 08 · 1 ch — 8 h 36
- Annecy · France 4h 12 · 4 ch — 8 h 41
- Metz · France 4h 18 · 1 ch — 8 h 15
Journeys from Basel'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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