Whitby
Population 13,130 (Wikidata)
Before you go
- January: 7 h 52 of daylight
- February: 9 h 45 of daylight
- March: 11 h 47 of daylight
- April: 14 h 03 of daylight
- May: 16 h 02 of daylight
- June: 17 h 13 of daylight
- July: 16 h 44 of daylight
- August: 14 h 58 of daylight
- September: 12 h 46 of daylight
- October: 10 h 36 of daylight
- November: 8 h 31 of daylight
- December: 7 h 19 of daylight
Getting there
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Where you can go from Whitby
- Under 1 h
- 1–2 h
- 2–3 h
- 3–5 h
- 5 h +
From Whitby'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· 12
- Durham3h 20
- Sunderland3h 30
- York3h 30
- Newcastle upon Tyne3h 37
- Doncaster3h 59
- Leeds4h 07
- Sheffield4h 23
- Wakefield4h 23
- Berwick-upon-Tweed4h 27
- Huddersfield4h 37
2 moreFewer
5 hours or more· 77
- Scarborough5h 02
- Peterborough5h 05
- Stevenage5h 07
- Manchester5h 11
- Edinburgh5h 12
- Salford5h 20
- Nottingham5h 24
- Stockport5h 27
- Birmingham5h 30
- Leicester5h 30
67 moreFewer
- London5h 34
- Bolton5h 36
- Ely5h 48
- Burnley5h 49
- Cleethorpes5h 55
- Lincoln5h 56
- St Albans5h 56
- Warrington6h
- Accrington6h
- Liverpool6h 01
- Preston6h 02
- Coventry6h 03
- Cambridge6h 05
- Wigan6h 05
- Glasgow6h 08
- Stamford6h 08
- North Berwick6h 11
- Stirling6h 14
- Milton Keynes6h 16
- Cheltenham6h 16
- Kirkcaldy6h 21
- Chelmsford6h 23
- Reading6h 25
- Nelson6h 27
- Gloucester6h 28
- Runcorn6h 28
- Annan6h 30
- Farnborough6h 34
- Guildford6h 34
- Perth6h 35
- Altrincham6h 35
- Worcester6h 35
- Canterbury6h 36
- Windsor and Eton6h 38
- Oxford6h 38
- Northampton6h 39
- Crawley6h 41
- Stratford-upon-Avon6h 41
- Folkestone6h 43
- Chester6h 46
- Shrewsbury6h 47
- Colchester6h 48
- Blackpool6h 52
- Southend-on-Sea6h 52
- Tewkesbury6h 56
- Swindon6h 58
- Brighton6h 59
- Wrexham7h 02
- Dundee7h 06
- Winchester7h 06
- Ipswich7h 07
- Greenock7h 07
- Hastings7h 08
- Helensburgh7h 13
- Norwich7h 14
- Eastleigh7h 15
- Bristol7h 15
- Eastbourne7h 19
- Lanark7h 20
- Ludlow7h 20
- Salisbury7h 22
- Southampton7h 24
- Bath7h 25
- Cardiff7h 27
- Arundel7h 36
- Portsmouth7h 43
- Llandudno7h 55
From Whitby'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.
3 to 5 hours· 1
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- Whitby Museum Museum · 80 m
- Captain Cook Memorial Museum Museum · 580 m
- Cholmley House Museum · 810 m
- 199 Steps Attraction · 710 m
- The Angel Hotel Hotel · 430 m
- RNLI Whitby Lifeboat Museum Museum · 610 m
- Pannett Art Gallery Museum · 70 m
- Captain Cook Statue Memorial · 590 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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Whitby Goth Weekend
April
Whitby Goth Weekend is a music festival with much black lipstick held on Halloween and late April each year
1 event here has no dates for this year yet. We can look them up on each event's own site.
Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Whitby); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.
Eating nearby
All 22 places to eatSomewhere to run
Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 17 October 2026. Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.