Western Europe
The classic first trip to Europe, from the Atlantic to the Channel. 5 stops, 2,602 km end to end as the crow flies.
The stops, in order
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Lisbon
Portugal · best May, Jun, Jul
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Barcelona
Spain · best Jun, Jul, Aug
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Paris
France · best May, Jul, Aug
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Amsterdam
Netherlands · best Jun, Jul, Aug
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London
United Kingdom · best May, Jun, Aug
Month by month
| Place | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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| Lisbon | 14° | 15° | 16° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 26° | 27° | 25° | 22° | 17° | 15° |
| Barcelona | 12° | 14° | 15° | 17° | 20° | 25° | 27° | 28° | 24° | 21° | 16° | 14° |
| Paris | 7° | 10° | 13° | 16° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 22° | 17° | 11° | 9° |
| Amsterdam | 6° | 8° | 10° | 13° | 17° | 20° | 21° | 22° | 19° | 15° | 10° | 8° |
| London | 7° | 9° | 11° | 14° | 18° | 21° | 23° | 22° | 19° | 15° | 11° | 9° |
| Sweet spots | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high, from the same ten years of climate readings its page is built from. A dot marks a busy month. The last row counts the sweet spots, and the best months are marked.
Between the stops
| Lisbon → Barcelona | 994 km, about 2h 08m in the air Nonstop, about 14 a day · 5 airlines By bus: about 11h 34m · BlaBlaCar Bus · AVE 03191 |
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| Barcelona → Paris | 841 km, about 1h 57m in the air By train: about 7h 19m · TGV INOUI 9708 · 1 By bus: about 8h 50m · FlixBus N728 · TGV INOUI 6920 By road: 1,058 km, about 10h 14m |
| Paris → Amsterdam | 420 km, about 1h 26m in the air Nonstop, about 13 a day · 4 airlines By train: about 3h 57m · EST 9321 · B By road: 504 km, about 5h 21m |
| Amsterdam → London | 347 km, about 1h 20m in the air By train: about 4h 47m · EST 9133 · 24 By road: 539 km, about 7h 50m |
Distances are great-circle and the flight time is estimated from them. A road, train or bus line is listed only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, trains and buses from public timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each stop's page are where prices live.
Trips that share stops
Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about Western Europe as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.