Reading · January
Where to go from Reading in January
196 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 1h 30
- Winter Wonderland in Cardiff 1h 38
- International Film Festival Rotterdam in Rotterdam 3h 34
- Six Days of Rotterdam in Rotterdam 3h 34
- 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 Reading, January has 8 h 21 of daylight.
- Oxford · United Kingdom 40 min — 8 h 18
- Swindon · United Kingdom 40 min — 8 h 20
- London · United Kingdom 44 min · 1 ch 3–8° 59 mm 8 h 20
- Farnborough · United Kingdom 53 min — 8 h 22
- Windsor and Eton · United Kingdom 58 min · 1 ch — 8 h 20
- Guildford · United Kingdom 1h 05 · 2 ch — 8 h 23
- Winchester · United Kingdom 1h 06 · 1 ch — 8 h 24
- St Albans · United Kingdom 1h 16 · 2 ch — 8 h 18
- Eastleigh · United Kingdom 1h 16 · 1 ch — 8 h 25
- Bath · United Kingdom 1h 20 — 8 h 21
- Salisbury · United Kingdom 1h 21 · 1 ch — 8 h 24
- Southampton · United Kingdom 1h 24 · 1 ch 3–9° 90 mm 8 h 25
- Milton Keynes · United Kingdom 1h 25 · 3 ch — 8 h 16
- Chelmsford · United Kingdom 1h 29 · 2 ch 2–7° 53 mm 8 h 18
- Bristol · United Kingdom 1h 30 · 1 ch 2–8° 83 mm 8 h 21 Slapstick Silent Film Festival
- Coventry · United Kingdom 1h 30 2–7° 61 mm 8 h 12
- Stevenage · United Kingdom 1h 30 · 2 ch — 8 h 17
- Cardiff · United Kingdom 1h 38 — 8 h 20 Winter Wonderland
- Cheltenham · United Kingdom 1h 41 · 1 ch — 8 h 17
- Crawley · United Kingdom 1h 41 · 2 ch — 8 h 24
- Warminster · United Kingdom 1h 44 · 2 ch — 8 h 23
- Cambridge · United Kingdom 1h 45 · 2 ch — 8 h 14
- Colchester · United Kingdom 1h 48 · 2 ch 2–7° 53 mm 8 h 17
- Southend-on-Sea · United Kingdom 1h 51 · 3 ch — 8 h 20
- Peterborough · United Kingdom 1h 52 · 2 ch — 8 h 11
- Birmingham · United Kingdom 1h 53 2–7° 72 mm 8 h 11
- Tewkesbury · United Kingdom 1h 56 · 2 ch — 8 h 16
- Northampton · United Kingdom 1h 57 · 3 ch — 8 h 14
- Brighton · United Kingdom 1h 59 · 4 ch 4–8° 74 mm 8 h 26
- Worcester · United Kingdom 2h — 8 h 14
- Folkestone · United Kingdom 2h 01 · 2 ch — 8 h 24
- Portsmouth · United Kingdom 2h 02 · 2 ch 3–8° 84 mm 8 h 26
- Gloucester · United Kingdom 2h 04 · 1 ch — 8 h 17
- Ely · United Kingdom 2h 05 · 2 ch — 8 h 12
- Ipswich · United Kingdom 2h 08 · 2 ch — 8 h 15
- Stamford · United Kingdom 2h 08 · 3 ch — 8 h 10
- Bournemouth · United Kingdom 2h 08 · 1 ch 2–9° 96 mm 8 h 27
- Exeter · United Kingdom 2h 10 — 8 h 27
- Leicester · United Kingdom 2h 11 · 2 ch 0–7° 62 mm 8 h 10
- Stratford-upon-Avon · United Kingdom 2h 11 · 1 ch — 8 h 14
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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