London · February
Where to go from London in February
196 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. 1 of them are at least 4° warmer than London.
Good for February
Something on, mild weather, not too far: our reading of the month, not a ranking of the places.
- Leicester 1h 41 United Kingdom Highs of 7°, and Caribbean Carnival.
- Wakefield 2h 07 United Kingdom Rhubarb.
- York 2h 18 United Kingdom Highs of 8°, and Jorvik Viking Festival.
- Derby 1h 54 United Kingdom Derby Caribbean Carnival.
- Bristol 1h 58 United Kingdom Highs of 8°, and St Paul's Carnival.
- Hastings 2h 08 United Kingdom Old Town Carnival Week.
On in February
- Caribbean Carnival in Leicester 1h 41
- Derby Caribbean Carnival in Derby 1h 54
- St Paul's Carnival in Bristol 1h 58
- Rhubarb in Wakefield 2h 07
- Old Town Carnival Week in Hastings 2h 08
- Jorvik Viking Festival in York 2h 18
- Warminster Carnival in Warminster 2h 43
- Carnival in Kraainem 2h 44
- Aalst Carnival in Aalst 2h 52
- Festival Anima in Ghent 3h 02
- Festival Anima in Liège 3h 11
- IFFR in Rotterdam 3h 34
- Summer Carnival in Rotterdam 3h 34
- World tennis Tournament in Rotterdam 3h 34
- Festival van Vlaanderen Kortrijk in Kortrijk 3h 46
- Festival Anima in Charleroi 3h 52
- Carnaval in Breda 4h 09
- Carnival in Eindhoven 4h 49
- Glasgow Film Festival in Glasgow 5h 07
- Carnaval in Nijmegen 5h 26
- Travelling in Rennes 5h 27
- Caen Student Carnival in Caen 5h 55
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand 7h 33
Most happen every year in February; each city's page has the dates when they're known.
Everywhere within eight hours
Nearest first. In London, February has 9 h 59 of daylight and averages 3–9°.
- St Albans · United Kingdom 27 min — 9 h 58
- Reading · United Kingdom 43 min · 1 ch — 10 h
- Stevenage · United Kingdom 45 min — 9 h 58
- Crawley · United Kingdom 46 min · 1 ch — 10 h 01
- Farnborough · United Kingdom 46 min — 10 h
- Guildford · United Kingdom 52 min · 1 ch — 10 h 01
- Milton Keynes · United Kingdom 53 min — 9 h 57
- Chelmsford · United Kingdom 53 min · 1 ch 1–8° 39 mm 9 h 58
- Windsor and Eton · United Kingdom 55 min — 10 h
- Peterborough · United Kingdom 58 min — 9 h 54
- Southend-on-Sea · United Kingdom 1h 05 · 1 ch — 9 h 59
- Coventry · United Kingdom 1h 06 2–8° 47 mm 9 h 55
- Winchester · United Kingdom 1h 06 · 1 ch — 10 h 01
- Swindon · United Kingdom 1h 09 · 1 ch — 9 h 59
- Cambridge · United Kingdom 1h 15 — 9 h 56
- Oxford · United Kingdom 1h 15 · 2 ch — 9 h 58
- Colchester · United Kingdom 1h 15 · 1 ch 2–8° 44 mm 9 h 58
- Eastleigh · United Kingdom 1h 16 · 1 ch — 10 h 02
- Brighton · United Kingdom 1h 20 3–9° 57 mm 10 h 02
- Southampton · United Kingdom 1h 24 · 1 ch 3–9° 64 mm 10 h 02
- Northampton · United Kingdom 1h 27 — 9 h 56
- Birmingham · United Kingdom 1h 29 2–8° 55 mm 9 h 55
- Arundel · United Kingdom 1h 35 · 1 ch — 10 h 02
- Ely · United Kingdom 1h 37 — 9 h 55
- Ipswich · United Kingdom 1h 38 · 1 ch — 9 h 57
- Canterbury · United Kingdom 1h 39 — 10 h
- Leicester · United Kingdom 1h 41 0–7° 49 mm 9 h 54 Caribbean Carnival
- Salisbury · United Kingdom 1h 47 — 10 h 01
- Eastbourne · United Kingdom 1h 49 4–9° 59 mm 10 h 03
- Doncaster · United Kingdom 1h 50 — 9 h 50
- Bath · United Kingdom 1h 51 · 1 ch — 10 h
- Folkestone · United Kingdom 1h 54 — 10 h 01
- Derby · United Kingdom 1h 54 · 1 ch — 9 h 53 Derby Caribbean Carnival
- Bristol · United Kingdom 1h 58 · 2 ch 2–8° 58 mm 10 h St Paul's Carnival
- Portsmouth · United Kingdom 2h 02 3–9° 58 mm 10 h 03
- Runcorn · United Kingdom 2h 05 — 9 h 51
- Wakefield · United Kingdom 2h 07 — 9 h 49 Rhubarb
- Hastings · United Kingdom 2h 08 · 1 ch — 10 h 02 Old Town Carnival Week
- Stamford · United Kingdom 2h 08 · 1 ch — 9 h 54
- Bournemouth · United Kingdom 2h 08 · 1 ch 2–9° 67 mm 10 h 03
Journeys from London'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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