Penzance
Population 20,734 (Wikidata)
Before you go
- January: 8 h 32 of daylight
- February: 10 h 06 of daylight
- March: 11 h 49 of daylight
- April: 13 h 45 of daylight
- May: 15 h 25 of daylight
- June: 16 h 22 of daylight
- July: 15 h 58 of daylight
- August: 14 h 31 of daylight
- September: 12 h 40 of daylight
- October: 10 h 49 of daylight
- November: 9 h 04 of daylight
- December: 8 h 05 of daylight
Getting there
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Where you can go from Penzance
- Under 1 h
- 1–2 h
- 2–3 h
- 3–5 h
- 5 h +
From Penzance's stations on a Tuesday at 08:00, by train, coach or ferry, to the other city's station: the wait for the first train included, not the way to the station.
2 to 3 hours· 1
3 to 5 hours· 4
5 hours or more· 63
- Reading5h
- Swindon5h 10
- Cheltenham5h 12
- Warminster5h 12
- Cardiff5h 24
- Gloucester5h 28
- London5h 33
- Salisbury5h 34
- Oxford5h 40
- Farnborough5h 52
53 moreFewer
- Tewkesbury5h 55
- Birmingham5h 57
- Windsor and Eton5h 58
- Worcester5h 59
- Southampton6h 06
- Winchester6h 06
- Guildford6h 10
- St Albans6h 13
- Eastleigh6h 15
- Stevenage6h 16
- Milton Keynes6h 20
- Chelmsford6h 23
- Coventry6h 26
- Ludlow6h 26
- Swansea6h 31
- Peterborough6h 36
- Southend-on-Sea6h 37
- Crawley6h 41
- Derby6h 43
- Cambridge6h 45
- Portsmouth6h 46
- Colchester6h 48
- Brighton6h 52
- Shrewsbury6h 55
- Northampton6h 59
- Folkestone7h 01
- Ely7h 05
- Bournemouth7h 07
- Ipswich7h 07
- Leicester7h 07
- Stamford7h 08
- Nottingham7h 19
- Eastbourne7h 19
- Sheffield7h 20
- Stockport7h 20
- Canterbury7h 21
- Hastings7h 24
- Runcorn7h 24
- Warrington7h 28
- Doncaster7h 29
- Manchester7h 31
- Stratford-upon-Avon7h 32
- Arundel7h 36
- Wigan7h 39
- Salford7h 41
- Liverpool7h 44
- Chester7h 46
- Norwich7h 48
- Wakefield7h 48
- York7h 53
- Preston7h 53
- Bolton7h 54
- Lincoln7h 58
From Penzance's stations on a Friday at 17:30, by train, coach or ferry, to the other city's station: the wait for the first train included, not the way to the station.
2 to 3 hours· 1
3 to 5 hours· 4
From published timetables, as of 19 October 2026. Only cities with a page here, in the countries we have timetables for.
Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide- Penlee House, Gallery & Museum Museum · 350 m
- Egyptian House Attraction · 140 m
- Battery Point War Memorial Memorial · 620 m
- The Exchange Gallery · 90 m
- The Longboat Inn Hotel · 400 m
- Grand Casino Attraction · 630 m
- Redwing Gallery Gallery · 110 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Through the year
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Golowan Festival
June
Golowan (sometimes also Goluan) is the Cornish language word for the Midsummer celebrations in Cornwall, UK; they were widespread prior to the late 19th century and most popular in the Penwith area and in particular in Penzance.
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Allantide
October
A Cornish festival that was traditionally celebrated on 31 October elsewhere known as Hallowe'en. Many of the Allantide traditions are celebrated in Penzance as part of the town's Apple Day celebrations in late October.
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Montol Festival
December
The Montol Festival (often just Montol) is an annual festival in Penzance, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which has been held on 21 December each year since 2007.
6 events here have no dates for this year yet. We can look them up on each event's own site.
Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Penzance); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.
Eating nearby
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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 17 October 2026. Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.