Q&A: Best place to go in Europe in January?
Question by girl: Best place to go in Europe in January?
I have a two week holiday from the 14th of January and wanted to go to Europe.
What are good destinations in Europe? Will the Xmas markets be open in Jan end?
Im not much into snow activities like snow boarding or skiing… I’m more interested in culture and beautiful scenes
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Answer by Kat
no there wont be any christmas markets since all of them are before christmas. germany has really cool places. there are many old churches and historical places. do you like stuff like that? germany would be a great place to go.
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Regarding weather, the best options are Spain, Italy and Greece. Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Rome… You’ll love them!!
It’s all a matter of what weather you like – or can stand.
Northern Europe (Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltics) can be very cold indeed, with temperatures below -15C (5F) common. Talinn (Estonia) and Stockholm (Sweden) are invariably beautiful at this time of year.
Central Europe is also cold, but less extreme. I agree with the suggestion of Germany, but would suggest Prague (Czech Republic) is particularly magical in winter, and has more than enough culture too. Note that some particularly nice cities in Germany, such as Dresden and Nurnberg are within easy travel distance from Prague, so it needn’t be either-or. Budapest (Hungary) would also be a good option, pretty, affordable and full of culture.
Western Europe (UK, IE, NL, BE and Northern FR) tends to be wet & miserable; although it can be beautiful when dry or snowing I’d not recommend it much.
Southern Europe is a mixed bag, can be sunny and almost warm, but winter is the rainy season down there too, so no guarantees. Any of the aforementioned cities would be marvellous.
Balkans. Frequently ignored or feared, there’s lots going on there. The German cities in the Transsylvanian Carpathians (Romania) are beautiful, Sibiu, Brasov and Sighisoara in particular, Sarajevo (Bosnia) is a bit of a gamble as to weather, but the old town is magical in snow and still quite OK in the rain. Finally the Croatian coastal cities of Split and Dubrovnik are stunning – the former partially built inside a Roman palace, the latter a very deserved Unesco world heritage site with Venetian roots.
But no christmas anywhere, unless you skip to Jerusalem where the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate celebrates Xmas on January 19th. But even there it is a tiny minority group, so don’t expect big markets, they would have been in December (or early January for the Orthodox traditions)