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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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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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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Tokyo, Japan

Neon, precise, endlessly layered

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

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Hvar, Croatia

Glossy, sun-bleached, late-night

11°C in January · 12h 45m from Los Angeles · 4 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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London, England

Vast, layered, endlessly walkable

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

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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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Seoul, South Korea

Late, layered, relentlessly awake

3°C in January · 12h 05m from Los Angeles · 4–5 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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New York City, USA

Fast, vertical, endlessly awake

5°C in January · 5h 20m from Los Angeles · 4–5 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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Berlin, Germany

Spacious, unpolished, historically loaded

5°C in January · 11h 45m from Los Angeles · 4 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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Riga, Latvia

Art nouveau, cheap, quietly cool

1°C in January · 11h 40m from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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Vilnius, Lithuania

Baroque, bohemian, cheerfully cheap

0°C in January · 12h from Los Angeles · 2–3 nights

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