Cambridge · January
Where to go from Cambridge in January
187 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.
Good for January
Something on, mild weather, not too far: our reading of the month, not a ranking of the places.
On in January
- Slapstick Silent Film Festival in Bristol 3h 01
- International Film Festival Rotterdam in Rotterdam 3h 34
- Six Days of Rotterdam in Rotterdam 3h 34
- Winter Wonderland in Cardiff 3h 42
- Leidsche blues- en jazzweek in Leiden 4h 17
Most happen every year in January; each city's page has the dates when they're known.
Everywhere within eight hours
Nearest first. In Cambridge, January has 8 h 14 of daylight.
- Ely · United Kingdom 35 min — 8 h 12
- Stevenage · United Kingdom 57 min · 1 ch — 8 h 17
- London · United Kingdom 1h 11 3–8° 59 mm 8 h 20
- Peterborough · United Kingdom 1h 29 · 1 ch — 8 h 11
- Norwich · United Kingdom 1h 41 — 8 h 10
- St Albans · United Kingdom 1h 43 · 1 ch — 8 h 18
- Reading · United Kingdom 1h 55 · 2 ch — 8 h 21
- Colchester · United Kingdom 2h 02 · 1 ch 2–7° 53 mm 8 h 17
- Ipswich · United Kingdom 2h 03 — 8 h 15
- Guildford · United Kingdom 2h 04 · 3 ch — 8 h 23
- Stamford · United Kingdom 2h 08 — 8 h 10
- Milton Keynes · United Kingdom 2h 09 · 2 ch — 8 h 16
- Chelmsford · United Kingdom 2h 10 · 1 ch 2–7° 53 mm 8 h 18
- Crawley · United Kingdom 2h 11 · 1 ch — 8 h 24
- Brussels · Belgium 2h 15 · 1 ch 1–6° 76 mm 8 h 26
- Farnborough · United Kingdom 2h 16 · 4 ch — 8 h 22
- Doncaster · United Kingdom 2h 18 · 2 ch — 8 h 02
- Windsor and Eton · United Kingdom 2h 18 · 3 ch — 8 h 20
- Swindon · United Kingdom 2h 23 · 2 ch — 8 h 20
- Southend-on-Sea · United Kingdom 2h 27 · 2 ch — 8 h 20
- Northampton · United Kingdom 2h 28 · 2 ch — 8 h 14
- Brighton · United Kingdom 2h 29 · 2 ch 4–8° 74 mm 8 h 26
- Coventry · United Kingdom 2h 34 · 2 ch 2–7° 61 mm 8 h 12
- Oxford · United Kingdom 2h 34 · 3 ch — 8 h 18
- Winchester · United Kingdom 2h 34 · 3 ch — 8 h 24
- Canterbury · United Kingdom 2h 36 · 1 ch — 8 h 22
- Nottingham · United Kingdom 2h 37 · 1 ch 2–8° 51 mm 8 h 07
- Lincoln · United Kingdom 2h 37 · 2 ch 2–7° 48 mm 8 h 04
- Wakefield · United Kingdom 2h 37 · 2 ch — 8 h
- Leicester · United Kingdom 2h 38 · 1 ch 0–7° 62 mm 8 h 10
- Eastleigh · United Kingdom 2h 43 · 3 ch — 8 h 25
- Kraainem · Belgium 2h 44 · 3 ch 1–6° 71 mm 8 h 26
- Folkestone · United Kingdom 2h 44 · 2 ch — 8 h 24
- Bath · United Kingdom 2h 47 · 2 ch — 8 h 21
- Sheffield · United Kingdom 2h 49 · 3 ch 2–7° 76 mm 8 h 03
- Leeds · United Kingdom 2h 51 · 2 ch 0–6° 61 mm 7 h 59
- Southampton · United Kingdom 2h 51 · 3 ch 3–9° 90 mm 8 h 25
- Aalst · Belgium 2h 52 · 2 ch — 8 h 25
- Mechelen · Belgium 2h 52 · 2 ch — 8 h 24
- Birmingham · United Kingdom 2h 57 · 2 ch 2–7° 72 mm 8 h 11
Journeys from Cambridge'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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