Reading · February
Where to go from Reading 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.
Good for February
Something on, mild weather, not too far: our reading of the month, not a ranking of the places.
- Bristol 1h 30 United Kingdom Highs of 8°, and St Paul's Carnival.
- Warminster 1h 44 United Kingdom Warminster Carnival.
- Leicester 2h 11 United Kingdom Highs of 7°, and Caribbean Carnival.
- Derby 2h 32 United Kingdom Derby Caribbean Carnival.
- Kraainem 2h 44 Belgium Highs of 7°, and Carnival.
- Hastings 2h 51 United Kingdom Old Town Carnival Week.
On in February
- St Paul's Carnival in Bristol 1h 30
- Warminster Carnival in Warminster 1h 44
- Caribbean Carnival in Leicester 2h 11
- Derby Caribbean Carnival in Derby 2h 32
- Carnival in Kraainem 2h 44
- Old Town Carnival Week in Hastings 2h 51
- Aalst Carnival in Aalst 2h 52
- Festival Anima in Ghent 3h 02
- Jorvik Viking Festival in York 3h 05
- Rhubarb in Wakefield 3h 06
- 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
- Carnaval in Nijmegen 5h 26
- Travelling in Rennes 5h 27
- Caen Student Carnival in Caen 5h 55
- Glasgow Film Festival in Glasgow 6h 04
- 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 Reading, February has 10 h of daylight.
- Oxford · United Kingdom 40 min — 9 h 58
- Swindon · United Kingdom 40 min — 9 h 59
- London · United Kingdom 44 min · 1 ch 3–9° 45 mm 9 h 59
- Farnborough · United Kingdom 53 min — 10 h
- Windsor and Eton · United Kingdom 58 min · 1 ch — 10 h
- Guildford · United Kingdom 1h 05 · 2 ch — 10 h 01
- Winchester · United Kingdom 1h 06 · 1 ch — 10 h 01
- St Albans · United Kingdom 1h 16 · 2 ch — 9 h 58
- Eastleigh · United Kingdom 1h 16 · 1 ch — 10 h 02
- Bath · United Kingdom 1h 20 — 10 h
- Salisbury · United Kingdom 1h 21 · 1 ch — 10 h 01
- Southampton · United Kingdom 1h 24 · 1 ch 3–9° 64 mm 10 h 02
- Milton Keynes · United Kingdom 1h 25 · 3 ch — 9 h 57
- Chelmsford · United Kingdom 1h 29 · 2 ch 1–8° 39 mm 9 h 58
- Bristol · United Kingdom 1h 30 · 1 ch 2–8° 58 mm 10 h St Paul's Carnival
- Coventry · United Kingdom 1h 30 2–8° 47 mm 9 h 55
- Stevenage · United Kingdom 1h 30 · 2 ch — 9 h 58
- Cardiff · United Kingdom 1h 38 — 10 h
- Cheltenham · United Kingdom 1h 41 · 1 ch — 9 h 58
- Crawley · United Kingdom 1h 41 · 2 ch — 10 h 01
- Warminster · United Kingdom 1h 44 · 2 ch — 10 h 01 Warminster Carnival
- Cambridge · United Kingdom 1h 45 · 2 ch — 9 h 56
- Colchester · United Kingdom 1h 48 · 2 ch 2–8° 44 mm 9 h 58
- Southend-on-Sea · United Kingdom 1h 51 · 3 ch — 9 h 59
- Peterborough · United Kingdom 1h 52 · 2 ch — 9 h 54
- Birmingham · United Kingdom 1h 53 2–8° 55 mm 9 h 55
- Tewkesbury · United Kingdom 1h 56 · 2 ch — 9 h 57
- Northampton · United Kingdom 1h 57 · 3 ch — 9 h 56
- Brighton · United Kingdom 1h 59 · 4 ch 3–9° 57 mm 10 h 02
- Worcester · United Kingdom 2h — 9 h 56
- Folkestone · United Kingdom 2h 01 · 2 ch — 10 h 01
- Portsmouth · United Kingdom 2h 02 · 2 ch 3–9° 58 mm 10 h 03
- Gloucester · United Kingdom 2h 04 · 1 ch — 9 h 58
- Ely · United Kingdom 2h 05 · 2 ch — 9 h 55
- Ipswich · United Kingdom 2h 08 · 2 ch — 9 h 57
- Stamford · United Kingdom 2h 08 · 3 ch — 9 h 54
- Bournemouth · United Kingdom 2h 08 · 1 ch 2–9° 67 mm 10 h 03
- Exeter · United Kingdom 2h 10 — 10 h 03
- Leicester · United Kingdom 2h 11 · 2 ch 0–7° 49 mm 9 h 54 Caribbean Carnival
- Stratford-upon-Avon · United Kingdom 2h 11 · 1 ch — 9 h 56
Journeys from Reading'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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