Where to go in January

Barcelona, Spain

Architectural, coastal, late-running

13°C in January · 12h 05m from Los Angeles · 4 nights

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Cadaqués, Catalonia, Spain

White, windswept, artily bohemian

12°C in January · 12h 05m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Cape Sounion, Greece

Marble, wind, open sea, ceremony

13°C in January · 13h 50m from Los Angeles · a half-day trip from athens

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Girona, Spain

Stone, water, quietly sophisticated

13°C in January · 12h 05m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Nice, France

Sun-bleached, Italianate, unhurried

12°C in January · 12h 15m from Los Angeles · 4–5 nights

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Athens, Greece

Ancient, gritty, sociable, sun-bleached

13°C in January · 13h 50m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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The Peloponnese, Greece

Slow, olive-scented, uncrowded

13°C in January · 13h 50m from Los Angeles · a week to ten days

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Pamukkale, Turkey

Chalk-white, steaming, faintly surreal

12°C in January · 14h 10m from Los Angeles · 1–2 nights

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Taormina, Sicily, Italy

Cliff-perched, romantic, volcano-shadowed

13°C in January · 13h 20m from Los Angeles · 3 nights

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Hydra, Greece

Car-free, stone-built, artfully quiet

11°C in January · 13h 50m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Madrid, Spain

Late-night, grand, unpretentious

10°C in January · 11h 45m from Los Angeles · 3-4 nights

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Thessaloniki, Greece

Late-night, food-obsessed, unpolished

11°C in January · 13h 30m from Los Angeles · 3 nights

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Dubrovnik, Croatia

Grand, historic, romantically crowded

12°C in January · 13h from Los Angeles · 3-4 nights

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Osaka, Japan

Neon, greedy, cheerfully brash

9°C in January · 11h 35m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Tokyo, Japan

Neon, precise, endlessly layered

9°C in January · 11h 05m from Los Angeles · 5 nights or more

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Varenna, Lake Como, Italy

Steep, quiet, unhurriedly pretty

9°C in January · 12h 10m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Xi'an, China

Ancient capital, appetite-driven, floodlit

7°C in January · 13h 40m from Los Angeles · 3 nights

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Lucca, Italy

Walled, flat, unhurried Tuscany

11°C in January · 12h 25m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Venice, Italy

Watery, theatrical, quietly melancholy

8°C in January · 12h 20m from Los Angeles · 3 nights

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Verona, Italy

Roman, well-dressed, pleasantly unhurried

8°C in January · 12h 15m from Los Angeles · 2 nights

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Bay of Kotor, Montenegro

Stone, mountain, mirror-flat water

12°C in January · 13h 05m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Kotor, Montenegro

Stone lanes, sheer mountains, cats

12°C in January · 13h 05m from Los Angeles · 2-3 nights

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Florence, Italy

Compact, golden, relentlessly beautiful

10°C in January · 12h 30m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Piran, Slovenia

Venetian, compact, salt-washed

9°C in January · 12h 25m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Memphis, Tennessee

Soulful, unpolished, music-steeped

10°C in January · 3h 40m from Los Angeles · a long weekend, 3-4 nights

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Tirana, Albania

Loud, colourful, cheerfully chaotic

11°C in January · 13h 15m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Hakone, Japan

Steamy, forested, deliberately unhurried

9°C in January · 11h 05m from Los Angeles · 2 nights

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The Loire Valley, France

Level, green, quietly grand

9°C in January · 11h 25m from Los Angeles · 4–5 nights

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Ravello, Amalfi Coast, Italy

Gardens, terraces, quiet and elevated

10°C in January · 12h 55m from Los Angeles · 3 nights

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Kyoto, Japan

Ordered, seasonal, quietly formal

8°C in January · 11h 35m from Los Angeles · 4-5 nights

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St Ives, Cornwall, England

Bright, artistic, salt-scrubbed

10°C in January · 10h 50m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Bath, England

Georgian, steamy, softly romantic

8°C in January · 10h 55m from Los Angeles · 1–2 nights

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Dublin, Ireland

Literary, sociable, unpretentious

8°C in January · 10h 30m from Los Angeles · a long weekend

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London, England

Vast, layered, endlessly walkable

8°C in January · 11h from Los Angeles · 4–5 nights

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Paris, France

Elegant, walkable, quietly demanding

8°C in January · 11h 25m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Puy du Fou, France

Theatrical, ambitious, ride-free

8°C in January · 11h 20m from Los Angeles · 2 nights

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