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Day trips, decided

Is it worth leaving the city for a day?

Travel time, cost, hours needed, closed days and a straight verdict for every day trip from Europe's main cities. Every number has a source.

Popular starting citiesParisLondonRomeBarcelonaFlorenceAmsterdam

A straight verdict

Full day, half day, only with a tour, or sleep there. No vague praise.

Every way to get there

Train, bus, car or tour, with time, frequency and price for each.

Real costs, two ways

What it costs alone and what the organized tour costs, side by side.

Closed days and seasons

From each attraction's official site, with the date we checked.

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All destinations
Paris
Paris
11 day trips
London
London
11 day trips
Rome
Rome
10 day trips
Barcelona
Barcelona
10 day trips
Florence
Florence
10 day trips
Amsterdam
Amsterdam
11 day trips
Dublin
Dublin
10 day trips
Lisbon
Lisbon
10 day trips
Madrid
Madrid
10 day trips
Prague
Prague
10 day trips
Athens
Athens
10 day trips
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
10 day trips
Plan the day

Three ways to choose

Trip finder

Filter every destination by travel time, interest and the date you have free.

Ideas by interest

Castles, coast, hiking, wine or a day that works with kids.

Head to head

Two trips, one free day: the sheets side by side and a pick.
The decision sheet

Same nine fields, every destination

Daytripo is not a list of "10 best day trips". Each destination is a decision sheet with identical fields, so you can compare Versailles with Giverny the same way you compare Sintra with Óbidos.

  1. 01
    Base city
  2. 02
    Destination
  3. 03
    Travel time
  4. 04
    How to get there
  5. 05
    Self-guided cost
  6. 06
    Tour cost
  7. 07
    Time needed on site
  8. 08
    Closed days and best season
  9. 09
    Verdict
Straight answers

Not every trip is worth it. We say so.

Each destination gets one of four verdicts: worth a full day, worth half a day, only with a tour, or better to sleep there.

VersaillesWorth a full day
From Paris

Versailles

The palace of Louis XIV with its gardens and the Trianon estate, 14 minutes by train from Montparnasse or about 40 minutes on RER C.

14 min€ 37.10–40.10
SintraWorth a full day
From Lisbon

Sintra

A hill town of royal palaces and forest parks, 40 minutes by suburban train from Rossio station in central Lisbon.

40 min€ 25.10–34
Mont-Saint-MichelBetter to sleep there
From Paris

Mont-Saint-Michel

A medieval abbey and village on a rock in a tidal bay on the Normandy coast, about 3.5 hours from Paris by TGV and bus.

3 h 30€ 63–96
Methodology

Every number has a source

What has no source does not go in. An incomplete sheet is published with the field blank, never with an estimate. Every sheet shows the date it was last checked.

How sheets are built
  • Travel time and frequency · official site of the train or bus operator or, where it has no page to cite, the source named next to the number
  • Opening hours and closed days · official site of the attraction
  • Tour price and rating · partner catalogue, checked in the page's language
  • Date of last check · shown on every sheet