Where to go in January

Bangkok, Thailand

Hot, layered, relentlessly awake

31°C in January, and dry · 16h 25m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Lagos, Nigeria

Loud, ambitious, relentlessly creative

32°C in January · 15h 20m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Dubai, UAE

Glossy, ambitious, larger than life

25°C in January · 16h 30m from Los Angeles · 3-5 nights

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Key West, Florida, USA

Sunburnt, boozy, cheerfully eccentric

23°C in January · 5h from Los Angeles · 2-3 nights

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Humid, layered, late-night eating

30°C in January · 17h 25m from Los Angeles · 2-3 nights

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Hanoi, Vietnam

Loud, low-slung, endlessly sociable

21°C in January · 15h 15m from Los Angeles · 3 nights

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Singapore

Humid, polished, wide awake

28°C in January · 17h 20m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Austin, Texas

Laid-back, musical, sweaty, unpretentious

17°C in January · 2h 55m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Boracay, Philippines

Sociable, sandy, sunset-driven

27°C in January · sea at 28° · 14h 40m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Lisbon, Portugal

Steep, sunlit, gently melancholic

15°C in January · 11h 30m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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New Orleans, Louisiana

Humid, musical, gloriously unbothered

17°C in January · 3h 45m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Palermo, Sicily

Raw, baroque, deliciously disorderly

15°C in January · 13h 10m from Los Angeles · 3 nights

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Loud, sun-bleached, permanently outdoors

17°C in January · 15h 05m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Taipei, Taiwan

Late-night, steamy, easy-going

18°C in January · 13h 35m from Los Angeles · 3–4 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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Porto, Portugal

Tiled, steep, warmly unpolished

13°C in January · 11h 20m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Mykonos, Greece

Glossy, loud, expensively bronzed

14°C in January · 14h from Los Angeles · 3–5 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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Osaka, Japan

Neon, greedy, cheerfully brash

9°C in January · 11h 35m 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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Tbilisi, Georgia

Ramshackle, generous, wide awake

7°C in January · 14h 10m from Los Angeles · 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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Zrće Beach, Pag, Croatia

Loud, sunburnt, relentlessly nocturnal

9°C in January · 12h 40m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Nashville, Tennessee

Loud, friendly, relentlessly musical

9°C in January · 4h from Los Angeles · 3–4 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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Bucharest, Romania

Cheap, late, gloriously unpolished

6°C in January · 13h 10m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Budapest, Hungary

Grand, faded, steam-warmed

5°C in January · 12h 30m from Los Angeles · 3 nights

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Ghent, Belgium

Medieval, studenty, late-running

7°C in January · 11h 20m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Belgrade, Serbia

Raw, riverside, relentlessly sociable

6°C in January · 12h 50m from Los Angeles · 3 nights

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Sofia, Bulgaria

Cheap, green, unexpectedly fun

5°C in January · 13h 15m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Leipzig, Germany

Flat, cheap, culturally overqualified

5°C in January · 11h 45m from Los Angeles · a long weekend

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Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Studenty, cheap, late, unpolished

4°C in January · 12h 50m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Kraków, Poland

Medieval, candlelit, cheerfully nocturnal

3°C in January · 12h 15m from Los Angeles · 3-4 nights

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Chicago, Illinois

Big-shouldered, musical, architecturally serious

1°C in January · 3h 55m from Los Angeles · 3–4 nights

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Warsaw, Poland

Rebuilt, restless, late and cheap

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

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