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Christmas trips in Europe, 2026

Away over Christmas from €120 per person with a cabin bag. That trip's oldest price was seen 3 days ago and may be higher now. Every trip leaves between Fri 18 Dec and Wed 23 Dec and is still travelling after Christmas Day.

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Where do you start?

Type a city or a country, or pick “Anywhere in Europe” for the cheapest start. From Canada or the US, type your home airport (e.g. Calgary or BOS): trips start with a flight from the nearest of 11 big airports there (Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and more), and the budget covers it.

Then fly on toFrom Vancouver, Los Angeles or San Francisco, or an airport near them: a few places in Europe, one long flight on to Southeast Asia, a few places there, and home. Three long-haul tickets, all in the budget.

Leavingbetween 18–23 Dec

WhenAnytimeA windowFixed dates

Leave and come backto

Give or take

First flight betweenand

In the next

Prices go up to 12 Feb; later dates are added daily.

Trip3+ places, 2–4 nights each

Trip length

Trip length, first flight to lastto

EndsAnywhere

Where it endsBack homeAnywhereIn a city

Total for all flightsUp to €400

Budget for all flights Only a small under-seat bag (leaves out the cabin bag)Only trips low for their dates (under what their flights usually cost)Leave it empty for no cap. Back home counts the flight home. With a cabin bag, each flight counts its airline's usual price for one, or €60 where we don't know it (€65 on a long flight).

Travellers1 adult

TravellersEvery price, the budget included, is for all of you.

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Trip shape

Places to visitto3 or more. Your start and a finish city don't count.

Nights in each placetoAny: from 1 up to 14.

Also start from cities nearbyWhen you start from one city: trips can start from any city this close (straight line), and Back home can end at any of them.Last flight byEmpty: any day.Cities in each countryThe country with most of the trip can have more.Return to a country already on the tripCan a trip leave a country and come back to it later? Never keeps each country's cities in one go. Your start country counts too.

Which places

Places you must visit (up to 3)

Kind of placesCapitalsIslandsBeachesMountainsLakesOld townsSmall townsSkiNorthern lightsChristmas marketsWarm places From our notes on each city. Ski counts from December to mid-April. Northern lights counts from mid-September to March. Start, return and must-visit cities don't count. Mixing them up compares the kinds you pick, or capitals, islands and beaches.

Mix them up: no two of the same kind in a row Warm places onlyEvery place's typical daytime high for the month you're there, from long-term weather station averages. A place without them is left out.

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Most of the trip in one countryat leastcities there

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Flight timesandLocal time at each airport. We don't know every flight's times: a flight whose time we don't know stays in, marked for you to check.

Passports you holdLeaves out countries that need a visa.

Visas I already holdSchengen visaUK visaUS visaA valid one opens the countries that take it.

No visa at all: leave out e-visas, ETAs and visas on arrival too Leave each city from the airport I landed at

Prices are for one traveller, flights with a cabin bag, the cheapest seen lately.

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Also: New Year · Christmas markets · Carnival

Example Christmas trips

Some of the cheapest we found, from different start cities. They don't change with the search above.

From Malaga, 19–26 Dec €120per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€48 without bags · prices seen up to 3 days ago, may be higher now

MalagaMilan2nDublin4nLondon

Airport change in Milan

Christmas Day in Dublin, typically 9°C by day

From Malaga, 19–27 Dec €125per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€53 without bags · prices seen up to 7 days ago, may be higher now

MalagaMilan3nStockholm4nGdansk

Airport change in Milan

Christmas Day in Stockholm, typically 3°C by day

Christmas market open while you're there: Stockholm

From Athens, 21–27 Dec €142per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€57 without bags · prices seen up to 7 days ago, may be higher now

AthensVenice3nWarsaw2nBratislava

Airport change in Warsaw

Christmas Day in Warsaw, typically 2°C by day

Christmas market open while you're there: Warsaw

From Milan, 19–26 Dec €162per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€54 without bags, plus €108 in cabin bags: €48 at the airlines' prices on 2 flights, and the rest our estimate. We count €60 for the bag on 1 flight; check the airline's price. · prices seen up to 4 days ago, may be higher now

MilanBarcelona4nLondon2nFrankfurt

Airport change in London

Christmas Day in London, typically 9°C by day

Christmas markets: go before the day

Christmas markets are outdoor winter fairs, with stalls, hot food and mulled wine, and they're a reason to travel in the weeks before Christmas. All 43 we list are open from 3 Dec to 22 Dec. After that they start to close.

Over by Christmas Eve

Erfurt to 22 Dec
Frankfurt to 22 Dec
Hannover to 22 Dec
Helsinki to 22 Dec
Basel to 23 Dec
Bremen to 23 Dec
Gdansk to 23 Dec
Hamburg to 23 Dec
Leipzig/Halle to 23 Dec
Stockholm to 23 Dec
Stuttgart to 23 Dec
Dresden to 24 Dec
Graz to 24 Dec
Klagenfurt to 24 Dec
Linz to 24 Dec
Munich to 24 Dec
Nuremberg to 24 Dec
Strasbourg to 24 Dec

Still on after Christmas

Vienna to 26 Dec
Amsterdam to 27 Dec
Bucharest to 27 Dec
Vilnius to 27 Dec
Budapest to 28 Dec
Dortmund to 30 Dec
Dusseldorf to 30 Dec
Lille to 30 Dec
Berlin to 31 Dec
Brno to 31 Dec
Salzburg to 1 Jan
Bratislava to 3 Jan
Bruges to 3 Jan
Brussels to 3 Jan
Copenhagen to 3 Jan
Ljubljana to 3 Jan
Luxembourg to 3 Jan
Riga to 3 Jan
Bolzano to 6 Jan
Poznan to 6 Jan
Prague to 6 Jan
Tallinn to 6 Jan
Warsaw to 6 Jan
Wroclaw to 7 Jan
Zagreb to 7 Jan

From each market's own dates. Some shut or close early around the 24th and 25th, so check its hours.

Warmest for Christmas

23°C Tenerife
22°C Arrecife (Lanzarote)
22°C Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
22°C Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)
21°C Funchal (Madeira)
19°C Larnaca

Highs are long-term averages at a nearby weather station for that month, not a forecast.