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Island hopping in Europe

€119 per person with a cabin bag buys 3 flights through 4 countries with 2 islands: from Bucharest on Sat 21 Nov. That trip's oldest price was seen 6 days ago and may be higher now. Below are the two cheapest leaving each month from anywhere in Europe, each stopping at two or more islands.

In November, typical highs at the islands run from 6°C in Visby (Gotland) to 25°C in Tenerife.

Plan your own trip to islands

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 15 Nov – 31 Jan

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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Set every detail: nights in each, kinds of place, countries, visasnights, places, countries +2 1 changed

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.

Only these countries

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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Example trips to islands

Some of the cheapest we found. They don't change with the search above.

Prices seen, not held: each says how old it is
Each total says what a cabin bag adds
Each flight is its own ticket
Ranked by price alone

We check the onward non-stop fares from each stop, for each number of nights you allow, and string the cheapest we find into a trip through several countries.

November

From Bucharest, 21–25 Nov €119per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€47 without bags · prices seen up to 6 days ago, may be higher now

BucharestTirana2nMalta2nCatania (Sicily)

From Krakow, 17–26 Nov €121per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€49 without bags · prices seen up to 8 days ago, may be higher now

KrakowMilan4nMalta4nPalma (Majorca)

December

From Warsaw, 15–20 Dec €121per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€49 without bags · prices seen up to 4 days ago, may be higher now

WarsawMilan2nPalma (Majorca)3nMalta

Airport change in Milan

From Paris, 2–10 Dec €128per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€56 without bags · prices seen up to 6 days ago, may be higher now

ParisCatania (Sicily)3nMalta4nLisbon

January

From Krakow, 31 Jan – 6 Feb €135per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€63 without bags · prices seen up to 6 days ago, may be higher now

KrakowCatania (Sicily)2nMalta4nToulouse

From Bucharest, 15–21 Jan €142per person in flights, with a cabin bag

€70 without bags · prices seen up to 4 days ago, may be higher now

BucharestMalta2nMilan4nTenerife

Airport change in Milan

One city per country, 2–4 nights in each, non-stop flights only. The start doesn't count as a stop. Updated every night.

The islands you can fly to

56 islands in Europe, from our notes on each place. Typical daytime highs in November are long-term averages at a nearby weather station, not a forecast. A linked name has its own page of trips from there.

Each dot is one of the islands you can fly to. Its colour is the place's typical high that month, blue for cool to orange for hot.

Cyprus

Larnacahighs of 23°C
Paphoshighs of 23°C

Faroe Islands

Sorvágur (Faroe Islands)

France

Ajaccio (Corsica)highs of 18°C
Bastia (Corsica)highs of 18°C
Calvi (Corsica)highs of 18°C
Figari (Corsica)highs of 18°C

49 more places, in 8 countries

Greece

Chania (Crete)highs of 19°C
Heraklion (Crete)highs of 21°C
Karpathoshighs of 21°C
Kefalliniahighs of 19°C
Kerkyra (Corfu)highs of 19°C
Kithirahighs of 18°C
Koshighs of 21°C
Leros
Limnoshighs of 16°C
Mikonoshighs of 19°C
Mytilene (Lesbos)highs of 17°C
Naxoshighs of 19°C
Paros
Rhodeshighs of 21°C
Samoshighs of 18°C
Thira (Santorini)highs of 19°C
Zakinthoshighs of 19°C

Italy

Alghero (Sardinia)highs of 19°C
Cagliari (Sardinia)highs of 19°C
Catania (Sicily)highs of 22°C
Lampedusahighs of 24°C
Olbia (Sardinia)highs of 18°C
Palermo (Sicily)highs of 20°C
Trapani (Sicily)highs of 20°C

Malta

Maltahighs of 21°C

Norway

Leknes (Lofoten)

Portugal

Corvo Islandhighs of 19°C
Flores Island (Azores)highs of 19°C
Funchal (Madeira)highs of 23°C
Horta (Faial)
Pico Islandhighs of 19°C
Ponta Delgada (São Miguel)highs of 20°C
Porto Santohighs of 21°C
Santa Maria
Sao Jorge
Terceira

Spain

Arrecife (Lanzarote)highs of 24°C
Ibizahighs of 20°C
Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)highs of 24°C
Menorcahighs of 18°C
Palma (Majorca)highs of 20°C
Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura)highs of 24°C
Santa Cruz De La Palma
Tenerifehighs of 25°C
Valverde (El Hierro)

Sweden

Visby (Gotland)highs of 6°C

United Kingdom

Islayhighs of 10°C
Kirkwall (Orkney)highs of 9°C
Shetland Islandshighs of 8°C

Island hopping from your own city

Each start city's cheapest trip above, per person in flights, and its own page of them.