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City Breaks from the UK and Ireland
We found city breaks to 79 cities, across Europe and a few just beyond, like Marrakech and Istanbul. They leave from 23 airports in the UK and Ireland, and flights start at £26.
City Breaks from the UK and Ireland at a Glance
- 79 cities. Return flights to Paris from Dublin start at £26 per person, and from a UK airport, Málaga from London Luton at £27.
- 30 start at £30 or less and 58 at £40 or less. At least half have a trip for £33 or less.
- 75 places are within a two-hour direct flight of a UK airport. The shortest is Dublin, 55 minutes from Liverpool.
- We found trips from Manchester to 72 of the 79 cities, more than from any other airport.
Cheap City Breaks by Price
Return flights only, per person: each city's cheapest trip from any of our airports.
The eight cheapest start at £28 or less, led by Paris at £26 from Dublin. Pick one to see every airport that flies there and the trips we found. The rest follow as a list.
More City Breaks, Cheapest First
The other 71, each with its cheapest trip and how many of our airports fly there.
- Faro · £28 · 19 airports
- Milan · £28 · 12 airports
- Dublin · £28 · 17 airports
- Alicante · £28 · 22 airports
- Gran Canaria · £28 · 16 airports
- Stockholm · £29 · 6 airports
- Marrakech · £29 · 14 airports
- Copenhagen · £30 · 10 airports
- Porto · £30 · 12 airports
- Dubrovnik · £30 · 6 airports
- Gdansk · £30 · 13 airports
- Munich · £30 · 7 airports
- Malta · £30 · 16 airports
- Naples · £30 · 8 airports
- Oslo · £30 · 6 airports
- Warsaw · £30 · 11 airports
- Bratislava · £30 · 6 airports
- Turin · £30 · 10 airports
- Wrocław · £30 · 13 airports
- Cork · £30 · 11 airports
- Gothenburg · £30 · 4 airports
- Frankfurt · £30 · 3 airports
- Luxembourg City · £31 · 3 airports
- Verona · £31 · 7 airports
- Sofia · £31 · 10 airports
- Marseille · £31 · 6 airports
- Seville · £31 · 10 airports
- Venice · £32 · 9 airports
- Kraków · £33 · 16 airports
- Valencia · £33 · 9 airports
- Pisa · £33 · 10 airports
- Palma de Mallorca · £33 · 19 airports
- Palermo · £34 · 4 airports
- Nuremberg · £34 · 4 airports
- Bologna · £35 · 6 airports
- Reykjavík · £36 · 9 airports
- Cologne · £37 · 6 airports
- Budapest · £38 · 14 airports
- Zagreb · £38 · 4 airports
- Lisbon · £38 · 11 airports
- Basel · £38 · 8 airports
- Prague · £38 · 15 airports
- Rome · £38 · 15 airports
- Geneva · £38 · 19 airports
- Riga · £39 · 6 airports
- Bilbao · £39 · 7 airports
- Berlin · £40 · 14 airports
- Hamburg · £40 · 6 airports
- Lyon · £40 · 9 airports
- Gibraltar · £40 · 5 airports
- Vienna · £41 · 7 airports
- Amsterdam · £41 · 14 airports
- Murcia · £42 · 10 airports
- Vilnius · £45 · 3 airports
- Helsinki · £46 · 2 airports
- Bucharest · £46 · 11 airports
- Salzburg · £49 · 11 airports
- Bordeaux · £49 · 6 airports
- Strasbourg · £50 · 5 airports
- Tromsø · £50 · 5 airports
- Nice · £51 · 10 airports
- Ljubljana · £51 · 3 airports
- Zürich · £55 · 8 airports
- Florence · £56 · 1 airport
- Athens · £59 · 8 airports
- Tallinn · £62 · 3 airports
- Innsbruck · £64 · 6 airports
- Düsseldorf · £76 · 7 airports
- Split · £81 · 5 airports
- Bergen · £104 · 3 airports
- Istanbul · £114 · 4 airports
City Breaks by Country
The most searched first, then all 42 countries with city breaks, A to Z.
Spain has the most of the cities on this page, 11, then Italy with 10 and France with 7. Each country's page has its cities cheapest first.
Every Country, A to Z
- Albania · 1 city
- Austria · 5 cities
- Belgium · 1 city
- Bosnia and Herzegovina · 1 city
- Bulgaria · 4 cities
- Croatia · 4 cities
- Cyprus · 2 cities
- Czech Republic · 3 cities
- Denmark · 4 cities
- Egypt · 2 cities
- Estonia · 1 city
- Finland · 3 cities
- France · 23 cities
- Germany · 15 cities
- Gibraltar · 1 city
- Greece · 8 cities
- Hungary · 2 cities
- Iceland · 2 cities
- Ireland · 5 cities
- Italy · 27 cities
- Kosovo · 1 city
- Latvia · 1 city
- Lithuania · 3 cities
- Luxembourg · 1 city
- Malta · 1 city
- Moldova · 1 city
- Montenegro · 2 cities
- Morocco · 7 cities
- Netherlands · 3 cities
- North Macedonia · 1 city
- Norway · 5 cities
- Poland · 12 cities
- Portugal · 4 cities
- Romania · 9 cities
- Serbia · 1 city
- Slovakia · 3 cities
- Slovenia · 1 city
- Spain · 22 cities
- Sweden · 4 cities
- Switzerland · 3 cities
- Tunisia · 3 cities
- Turkey · 6 cities
City Breaks from UK and Irish Airports
Pick your airport for its cheapest city breaks and multi-city trips.
We found the most places from London Stansted, 154, then Dublin with 121 and London Gatwick with 119. A smaller airport can still be the cheapest way to one city, so check yours.
- Aberdeen · 8 places · from £44
- Belfast · 39 places · from £28
- Birmingham · 68 places · from £28
- Bournemouth · 18 places · from £30
- Bristol · 82 places · from £28
- Cardiff · 5 places · from £30
- Dublin · 121 places · from £26
- East Midlands · 32 places · from £30
- Edinburgh · 82 places · from £29
- Exeter · 4 places · from £35
- Glasgow · 33 places · from £28
- Glasgow Prestwick · 10 places · from £36
- Leeds Bradford · 34 places · from £30
- Liverpool · 57 places · from £28
- London Gatwick · 119 places · from £28
- London Heathrow · 45 places · from £52
- London Luton · 108 places · from £27
- London Stansted · 154 places · from £28
- Manchester · 111 places · from £28
- Newcastle · 37 places · from £27
- Norwich · 2 places · from £38
- Southampton · 8 places · from £39
- Southend · 24 places · from £30
City Breaks with Extreme Day Trips
Bring your case and leave it at the hotel. Then fly out for the day with just the small bag that fits under the seat: out in the morning, 8 hours or more somewhere new, and back the same evening. Pick a city to see its day trips.
Every City with Day Trips, A to Z
We found day trips from 48 of the 79 cities. Each shows its cheapest: the flights there and back.
- Alicante · from £31
- Athens · from £58
- Barcelona · from £25
- Bergen · from £43
- Berlin · from £78
- Bologna · from £25
- Bratislava · from £55
- Brussels · from £31
- Bucharest · from £50
- Budapest · from £40
- Cologne · from £51
- Copenhagen · from £40
- Faro · from £35
- Gdansk · from £25
- Kraków · from £43
- Lisbon · from £46
- Madrid · from £31
- Málaga · from £25
- Malta · from £25
- Marrakech · from £26
- Marseille · from £28
- Milan · from £25
- Naples · from £29
- Nice · from £85
- Oslo · from £48
- Palermo · from £25
- Palma de Mallorca · from £23
- Paris · from £49
- Pisa · from £25
- Porto · from £29
- Prague · from £33
- Riga · from £25
- Rome · from £25
- Seville · from £25
- Sofia · from £55
- Stockholm · from £35
- Tallinn · from £66
- Tirana · from £25
- Toulouse · from £38
- Turin · from £27
- Valencia · from £25
- Venice · from £25
- Verona · from £25
- Vienna · from £43
- Vilnius · from £84
- Warsaw · from £26
- Wrocław · from £51
- Zagreb · from £41
Spend a Day in Another City on the Way
With an Extreme Day Trip Connector you fly into one city in the morning, spend the day there and fly on that evening to where you are staying, with no hotel in between.
Short Flights from the UK
The shortest scheduled direct flight to each place from any UK airport, in 5-minute steps. 75 European destinations are within two hours, and 158 within three.
European Destinations Within a 2-Hour Flight from the UK
75 places, shortest first. Among the shortest: Dublin (55 minutes from Liverpool), Rotterdam (55 minutes from London Stansted) and Amsterdam (1h 00m from Southend).
European Destinations Within a 3-Hour Flight from the UK
158 in all: the 75 above, and these 83 from two to three hours. Among the first: Bologna (2h 05m from London Luton), Brno (2h 05m from London Stansted) and Bydgoszcz (2h 05m from London Stansted). Just beyond Europe, Tunis, Enfidha and Tangier are within three hours too.
Two Cities in One Trip
- On a multi-city trip you fly on to the next city instead of flying home in between.
- A night or more in each city you stay in, and at least 12 hours there.
- Prices are for flights only, per person, and you book each flight directly with the airline.
More Ways to Find a City Break
- Multi-city trips →Two or three cities in one trip, a night or more in each.
- Weekend breaks →Out on Friday or Saturday, home on Sunday or Monday.
- Last-minute city breaks →Every trip leaving in the next 14 days, free to search.
- Christmas market breaks →A night in a market city while its market is open.
- February half term →City breaks that fit inside the half term, home before school starts.
- Every destination on a map →Every city we search and every airport, on one map.
City Breaks: Questions
- How Much Is a City Break in Europe from the UK?
- The cheapest we found was £26 per person in flights for 2 nights in Paris, leaving Dublin. From an airport in the UK itself, the cheapest was £27 for 2 nights in Málaga, leaving London Luton. 40 of the 79 cities had a city break from £33 or less. Fares move, so search for the latest. Prices are for flights only; where you stay is up to you.
- Which City Is Cheapest for a City Break?
- Paris, from £26 in flights, leaving Dublin. Next came Brussels (£27), Toulouse (£27), Tirana (£27) and Barcelona (£27). Fares move, so search for the latest.
- Which Airports Have City Breaks?
- We found city breaks from 23 airports in the UK and Ireland, and each has its own page. We found trips from Manchester to the most of them: 72 of the 79 cities on this page.
- Do the Prices Include Hotels?
- No. Prices are for flights only, per person, and you book each flight directly with the airline. Where you stay is up to you.
- Why Not Book a Package City Break?
- A package gives you a hotel and ATOL protection for one price. We find flights only, per person, from 23 airports in the UK and Ireland, and you book each flight directly with the airline. You choose the nights, one city or up to four in one trip, and where to stay. Choose a package for the protection and a hotel picked for you; search with us for the cheapest flights and the most choice.
- What Do Your Prices Include?
- Each flight's basic fare, per person, with the free small bag that fits under the seat. A cabin bag or a hold bag costs extra, priced by each airline, so add it before you compare. A city break is two flights, out and back, so a case is paid for twice. Bring it, leave it at your hotel and travel light from there: from many cities you can even fly out for an Extreme Day Trip with just the small bag, and be back the same evening.
- Can I Take a Day Trip from My City Break?
- Yes. From 48 of the 79 cities we found Extreme Day Trips: leave your case at the hotel, fly out in the morning with just the small bag and fly back the same evening, with 8 hours or more there. The cheapest we found was Palma de Mallorca to Asturias, £23 for the flights there and back. Each city's page lists its day trips.
- Where Can I Fly in Two Hours from the UK?
- There are 75 places abroad two hours or less from a UK airport by direct flight, as scheduled. Shortest first: Dublin, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Cork, Eindhoven, Knock, Paris and Limerick, and 67 more on this page.
- Where Can I Fly in Three Hours from the UK?
- There are 161 places abroad three hours or less from a UK airport by direct flight, as scheduled. Beyond the 75 within two hours, the shortest: Bologna, Brno, Bydgoszcz, Gdansk, Klagenfurt, Ljubljana, Stuttgart and Venice, and 78 more on this page.
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