Basel · February
Where to go from Basel in February
152 places you can reach by train, coach or ferry within eight hours, leaving on a weekday morning, and what February 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 February
Something on, mild weather, not too far: our reading of the month, not a ranking of the places.
On in February
- Fasnacht in Lucerne 1h 07
- Carnival in Kraainem 5h 44
- Aalst Carnival in Aalst 5h 52
- Festival Anima in Ghent 6h 02
- Caen Student Carnival in Caen 6h 04
- Festival Anima in Liège 6h 11
- Travelling in Rennes 6h 27
- Festival van Vlaanderen Kortrijk in Kortrijk 6h 46
- Festival Anima in Charleroi 6h 52
- IFFR in Rotterdam 7h 04
- Summer Carnival in Rotterdam 7h 04
- World tennis Tournament in Rotterdam 7h 04
- Carnaval in Breda 7h 21
- Caribbean Carnival in Leicester 7h 48
Most happen every year in February; each city's page has the dates when they're known.
Everywhere within eight hours
Nearest first. In Basel, February has 10 h 16 of daylight and averages 1–8°.
- Aarau · Switzerland 47 min · 1 ch — 10 h 17
- Solothurn · Switzerland 1h · 1 ch — 10 h 17
- Zurich · Switzerland 1h 05 -1–5° 60 mm 10 h 17
- Colmar · France 1h 06 — 10 h 14
- Lucerne · Switzerland 1h 07 -2–6° 61 mm 10 h 18 Fasnacht
- Baden · Switzerland 1h 09 — 10 h 16
- Bern · Switzerland 1h 23 · 1 ch — 10 h 18
- Pfäffikon · Switzerland 1h 41 · 1 ch — 10 h 17
- Strasbourg · France 1h 41 — 10 h 12
- Thun · Switzerland 1h 55 — 10 h 19
- Fribourg · Switzerland 1h 58 · 1 ch — 10 h 19
- Schaffhausen · Switzerland 1h 59 · 1 ch — 10 h 15
- St. Gallen · Switzerland 2h 24 · 1 ch — 10 h 16
- Chur · Switzerland 2h 24 — 10 h 19
- Lausanne · Switzerland 2h 28 · 1 ch — 10 h 20
- Interlaken · Switzerland 2h 45 · 1 ch — 10 h 19
- Vevey · Switzerland 2h 47 · 2 ch — 10 h 20
- Montreux · Switzerland 2h 53 · 2 ch — 10 h 20
- Geneva · Switzerland 2h 57 · 2 ch -1–7° 56 mm 10 h 21
- Lugano · Switzerland 3h · 1 ch — 10 h 22
- Sion · Switzerland 3h 03 · 1 ch — 10 h 21
- Bregenz · Austria 3h 05 · 1 ch — 10 h 16
- Dijon · France 3h 13 · 1 ch — 10 h 17
- Locarno · Switzerland 3h 13 · 2 ch — 10 h 21
- Dornbirn · Austria 3h 22 · 2 ch — 10 h 16
- Davos · Switzerland 3h 24 · 1 ch — 10 h 19
- Paris · France 3h 40 3–9° 42 mm 10 h 11
- Como · Italy 3h 40 · 2 ch — 10 h 22
- Feldkirch · Austria 3h 44 · 1 ch — 10 h 17
- Reims · France 3h 46 · 2 ch — 10 h 09
- Leysin · Switzerland 3h 48 · 3 ch — 10 h 21
- Nancy · France 3h 49 · 1 ch — 10 h 12
- Varese · Italy 3h 56 · 2 ch — 10 h 22
- Lauterbrunnen · Switzerland 3h 58 · 2 ch — 10 h 20
- Wengen BE · Switzerland 3h 58 · 2 ch — 10 h 20
- Grindelwald · Switzerland 4h 02 · 2 ch — 10 h 20
- Saint-Cloud · France 4h 03 · 2 ch — 10 h 11
- St. Moritz · Switzerland 4h 08 · 1 ch — 10 h 20
- Annecy · France 4h 12 · 4 ch — 10 h 22
- Metz · France 4h 18 · 1 ch — 10 h 10
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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