Paris from £26, and Barcelona, Málaga and Tenerife from £27: 79 of Europe's cheapest city breaks from the UK and Ireland, cheapest first, and the cheapest from your airport.
Written By Rick Blyth
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Published on 28/10/2026
Paris for £26. Barcelona, Málaga and Tenerife for £27. Those are return flights, per person, and every one is a real trip we found.
We search 230 destinations from 23 airports in the UK and Ireland. Here are 79 of those cities: the big names, like Rome, Prague and Barcelona, and some you might not have thought of, like Tirana and Wrocław.
Fifteen start under £30, and 54 under £40.
The very cheapest leave from Dublin. From Great Britain, Málaga and Tenerife start at £27 from London Luton, and Milan at £28 from Stansted.
The rest of the 230 are mostly smaller places, like Lanzarote, Rabat and Poznań. Some of them turn up in the lists from your airport, further down.
Each card is a city's cheapest trip: the price, the airport it leaves from and how many nights you get. Pick a city to see every airport and trip to it.
Fifteen cities start under £30.
Fifteen more start at £30.
Twenty-four more start between £31 and £39.
The last 25 start at £40 or more.
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The cards above give each city's cheapest trip, from whichever airport had it. This works the other way round.
For each of the busiest airports, here are the cheapest places we found. It counts every destination we search, not just the 79 above.
Some of the cheapest trips from Great Britain are just across the Irish Sea. So the UK and Ireland get a list of their own, after the rest of Europe.
Morocco turns up here too, just beyond Europe.
Instead of flying home after one city, you can fly on to a second. It can cost surprisingly little more than one city alone.
Every multi-city trip we show gives you a night or more in each city. You book each flight directly with the airline.
The trips here are all 4 nights or fewer, so you're not lugging a bag around for a week. The cheapest two-city trip of that length we found was £39: Dublin to Brussels, then on to Tirana in Albania, with 1 night in Brussels and 3 in Tirana. Here are three more, from three different airports.
Brussels and TiranaFrom Dublin · 4 nights in allSearch trips from£39✈️ Barcelona then Milan from Dublin: £42 for 4 nights, 2 in each. You fly on to Milan Bergamo, then home from Milan. That's £15 more than the cheapest Barcelona trip from Dublin.
✈️ Venice then Barcelona from London Luton: £43 for 3 nights, 1 in Venice and 2 in Barcelona. That's £11 more than Venice alone from Luton.
✈️ Alicante then Palma from Bristol: £42 for 3 nights, 1 in Alicante and 2 in Palma de Mallorca. That's £14 more than Alicante alone from Bristol.
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Fares follow demand. The same city can cost nearly twice as much in a busy month as in a quiet one.
Across the months we searched, Paris started at £26 in the cheapest and £46 in the dearest. Same Eiffel Tower, nearly twice the price. Lisbon ran from £38 to £65.
So pick the quieter months if you can, and go outside the school holidays. Half term and bank holiday weekends push prices up, and so do big events in the city you're going to.
The cheapest trips above run from one night to seven. Often, the length makes no difference to the price.
Málaga and Tenerife both cost £27 from London Luton: Málaga for 2 nights, Tenerife for 6. Barcelona was £27 for 6 nights from Dublin, the same as Tirana for 2.
So if you're flexible on how long you stay, you'll see far more of the cheap ones.
Several of the cheapest trips land at a second airport, some way out of town:
These airports are often the cheapest way in. Just add the coach or train into the city, in time and money, before you compare them with the main airport.
Ryanair, easyJet or Wizz Air fly to 76 of the 79 cities. All three include only a small under-seat bag in their basic fare. A bigger cabin bag or a hold bag costs extra.
🎒 For a few nights, one small bag keeps what you pay close to the price you saw.
Flying midweek is the usual advice. It can help, but it isn't a rule.
The cheapest trips above left on every day of the week. Sunday and Monday were the most common, and Tuesday and Wednesday the least.
🗓️ Only free at the weekend? Weekend breaks shows the cheapest trips out on Friday or Saturday and home on Sunday or Monday.
⏰ Can you go soon? Last-minute city breaks shows every trip leaving in the next 14 days. It's free to search.
📌 Key points
- The cheapest city break in Europe right now is Paris, £26 from Dublin.
- From Great Britain, Málaga and Tenerife start at £27 from London Luton.
- Fifteen of the 79 cities start under £30, and 54 under £40.
- Quieter months cost less: Paris ran from £26 to £46 across the months we searched.
- A second city can cost little more: Barcelona then Milan from Dublin was £42 for 4 nights.
See every city break we search, and its cheapest trips.
Or search city breaks from your airport. Tell us where you're flying from, roughly when and for how long. We'll show you every trip that fits, cheapest first.
Prices were found between the 29th of October and the 1st of November 2026: flights only, per person, rounded up to the next pound. Fares change every day, so search for today's.
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