Basel · January
Where to go from Basel in January
152 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. 5 of them are at least 4° warmer than Basel.
Good for January
Something on, mild weather, not too far: our reading of the month, not a ranking of the places.
- Solothurn 1h Switzerland Solothurn Film Festival.
- Wengen BE 3h 58 Switzerland Lauberhorn.
- Milan 4h 32 Italy Highs of 7°, and Corteo dei Re Magi.
- Rotterdam 7h 04 Netherlands Highs of 6°, and International Film Festival Rotterdam and 1 more on.
- Leiden 7h 47 Netherlands Leidsche blues- en jazzweek.
- Bolzano 7h 50 Italy Highs of 7°, mostly dry, and Wintermezzo.
On in January
- Solothurn Film Festival in Solothurn 1h
- Lauberhorn in Wengen BE 3h 58
- Corteo dei Re Magi in Milan 4h 32
- International Film Festival Rotterdam in Rotterdam 7h 04
- Six Days of Rotterdam in Rotterdam 7h 04
- Leidsche blues- en jazzweek in Leiden 7h 47
- Wintermezzo in Bolzano 7h 50
Most happen every year in January; each city's page has the dates when they're known.
Everywhere within eight hours
Nearest first. In Basel, January has 8 h 51 of daylight and averages 0–5°.
- Aarau · Switzerland 47 min · 1 ch — 8 h 52
- Solothurn · Switzerland 1h · 1 ch — 8 h 54 Solothurn Film Festival
- Zurich · Switzerland 1h 05 -1–4° 63 mm 8 h 53
- Colmar · France 1h 06 — 8 h 48
- Lucerne · Switzerland 1h 07 -2–4° 56 mm 8 h 55
- Baden · Switzerland 1h 09 — 8 h 52
- Bern · Switzerland 1h 23 · 1 ch — 8 h 56
- Pfäffikon · Switzerland 1h 41 · 1 ch — 8 h 54
- Strasbourg · France 1h 41 — 8 h 44
- Thun · Switzerland 1h 55 — 8 h 57
- Fribourg · Switzerland 1h 58 · 1 ch — 8 h 57
- Schaffhausen · Switzerland 1h 59 · 1 ch — 8 h 50
- St. Gallen · Switzerland 2h 24 · 1 ch — 8 h 52
- Chur · Switzerland 2h 24 — 8 h 56
- Lausanne · Switzerland 2h 28 · 1 ch — 8 h 59
- Interlaken · Switzerland 2h 45 · 1 ch — 8 h 58
- Vevey · Switzerland 2h 47 · 2 ch — 8 h 59
- Montreux · Switzerland 2h 53 · 2 ch — 8 h 59
- Geneva · Switzerland 2h 57 · 2 ch -1–5° 73 mm 9 h 01
- Lugano · Switzerland 3h · 1 ch — 9 h 02
- Sion · Switzerland 3h 03 · 1 ch — 9 h 01
- Bregenz · Austria 3h 05 · 1 ch — 8 h 52
- Dijon · France 3h 13 · 1 ch — 8 h 53
- Locarno · Switzerland 3h 13 · 2 ch — 9 h 01
- Dornbirn · Austria 3h 22 · 2 ch — 8 h 52
- Davos · Switzerland 3h 24 · 1 ch — 8 h 57
- Paris · France 3h 40 3–8° 48 mm 8 h 42
- Como · Italy 3h 40 · 2 ch — 9 h 03
- Feldkirch · Austria 3h 44 · 1 ch — 8 h 54
- Reims · France 3h 46 · 2 ch — 8 h 39
- Leysin · Switzerland 3h 48 · 3 ch — 9 h
- Nancy · France 3h 49 · 1 ch — 8 h 43
- Varese · Italy 3h 56 · 2 ch — 9 h 03
- Lauterbrunnen · Switzerland 3h 58 · 2 ch — 8 h 58
- Wengen BE · Switzerland 3h 58 · 2 ch — 8 h 58 Lauberhorn
- Grindelwald · Switzerland 4h 02 · 2 ch — 8 h 58
- Saint-Cloud · France 4h 03 · 2 ch — 8 h 42
- St. Moritz · Switzerland 4h 08 · 1 ch — 8 h 59
- Annecy · France 4h 12 · 4 ch — 9 h 03
- Metz · France 4h 18 · 1 ch — 8 h 40
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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