Basel · May
Where to go from Basel in May
152 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. 4 of them are at least 4° warmer than Basel.
Good for May
Something on, mild weather, not too far: our reading of the month, not a ranking of the places.
- Zurich 1h 05 Switzerland Highs of 19°, often wet, and Videoex.
- Lyon 5h 01 France Highs of 22°, and Nuits sonores.
- Venice 7h 16 Italy Highs of 22°, and Vogalonga.
- Bolzano 7h 50 Italy Highs of 24°, and Upload - Music Contest + Festival.
- Solothurn 1h Switzerland Solothurner Literaturtage.
- Turin 6h 10 Italy Highs of 22°, often wet, and Italian Environmental Film Festival and 1 more on.
On in May
- Solothurner Literaturtage in Solothurn 1h
- Videoex in Zurich 1h 05
- Nuits sonores in Lyon 5h 01
- Museo Mille Miglia in Brescia 5h 23
- Italian Environmental Film Festival in Turin 6h 10
- Turin Book Fair in Turin 6h 10
- Rock'n Solex in Rennes 6h 27
- Procession of the Holy Blood in Bruges in Bruges 6h 31
- Vogalonga in Venice 7h 16
- Breda Jazz Festival in Breda 7h 21
- Festival of Literature in Swindon 7h 39
- Gipsyfestival in Tilburg 7h 42
- Cambridge Beer Festival in Cambridge 7h 45
- Rowing in Cambridge 7h 45
- Kattenstoet in Ypres 7h 49
- Upload - Music Contest + Festival in Bolzano 7h 50
- Brighton Festival in Brighton 7h 59
- The Great Escape in Brighton 7h 59
Most happen every year in May; each city's page has the dates when they're known.
Everywhere within eight hours
Nearest first. In Basel, May has 15 h 06 of daylight and averages 10–20°.
- Aarau · Switzerland 47 min · 1 ch — 15 h 05
- Solothurn · Switzerland 1h · 1 ch — 15 h 04 Solothurner Literaturtage
- Zurich · Switzerland 1h 05 9–19° 128 mm 15 h 05 Videoex
- Colmar · France 1h 06 — 15 h 10
- Lucerne · Switzerland 1h 07 9–19° 149 mm 15 h 03
- Baden · Switzerland 1h 09 — 15 h 06
- Bern · Switzerland 1h 23 · 1 ch — 15 h 02
- Pfäffikon · Switzerland 1h 41 · 1 ch — 15 h 04
- Strasbourg · France 1h 41 — 15 h 13
- Thun · Switzerland 1h 55 — 15 h 01
- Fribourg · Switzerland 1h 58 · 1 ch — 15 h 01
- Schaffhausen · Switzerland 1h 59 · 1 ch — 15 h 07
- St. Gallen · Switzerland 2h 24 · 1 ch — 15 h 05
- Chur · Switzerland 2h 24 — 15 h 02
- Lausanne · Switzerland 2h 28 · 1 ch — 15 h
- Interlaken · Switzerland 2h 45 · 1 ch — 15 h 01
- Vevey · Switzerland 2h 47 · 2 ch — 14 h 59
- Montreux · Switzerland 2h 53 · 2 ch — 14 h 59
- Geneva · Switzerland 2h 57 · 2 ch 9–20° 78 mm 14 h 58
- Lugano · Switzerland 3h · 1 ch — 14 h 56
- Sion · Switzerland 3h 03 · 1 ch — 14 h 58
- Bregenz · Austria 3h 05 · 1 ch — 15 h 06
- Dijon · France 3h 13 · 1 ch — 15 h 05
- Locarno · Switzerland 3h 13 · 2 ch — 14 h 57
- Dornbirn · Austria 3h 22 · 2 ch — 15 h 05
- Davos · Switzerland 3h 24 · 1 ch — 15 h 01
- Paris · France 3h 40 11–20° 69 mm 15 h 15
- Como · Italy 3h 40 · 2 ch — 14 h 55
- Feldkirch · Austria 3h 44 · 1 ch — 15 h 04
- Reims · France 3h 46 · 2 ch — 15 h 18
- Leysin · Switzerland 3h 48 · 3 ch — 14 h 58
- Nancy · France 3h 49 · 1 ch — 15 h 14
- Varese · Italy 3h 56 · 2 ch — 14 h 55
- Lauterbrunnen · Switzerland 3h 58 · 2 ch — 15 h
- Wengen BE · Switzerland 3h 58 · 2 ch — 15 h
- Grindelwald · Switzerland 4h 02 · 2 ch — 15 h
- Saint-Cloud · France 4h 03 · 2 ch — 15 h 15
- St. Moritz · Switzerland 4h 08 · 1 ch — 14 h 59
- Annecy · France 4h 12 · 4 ch — 14 h 56
- Metz · France 4h 18 · 1 ch — 15 h 17
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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