Region: England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Durham
Durham is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 48,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Durham, with about 95 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Best months
- July and August
- Nearest airport
- NCL29 km · Newcastle International Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Plugs
- G · 230 V
- Emergency
- 112
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Durham
Durham ( DURR-əm, locally ) is a cathedral city and civil parish in County Durham, England. It is the county town and contains the headquarters of Durham County Council, the unitary authority which governs the district of County Durham.
The River Wear flows north through the city, making an incised meander which encloses the centre on three sides to form Durham's peninsula. At the base of the peninsula is the Market Place, which still hosts regular markets; a permanent indoor market, Durham Indoor Market, is also just off the Market Place. The Market Place and surrounding streets are one of the main commercial and shopping areas of the city. From the Market Place, the Bailey leads south past Palace Green; The Bailey is almost entirely owned and occupied by the university and the cathedral.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Durham
See
- Market Place
- Elvet Bridge
- Durham Castle
- Framwellgate Bridge
- Archaeology Museum
- Durham Museum and Heritage Centre
- Durham Cathedral
- Kingsgate Bridge
- The Count's House
- Prebends Bridge
- Crook Hall Gardens
- St Giles Church
Do
- Diggerland
- Kitt's Pool Room & Bar
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Durham
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Durham hotel | 95 | 4.4/5 2,153 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
Where the places to stay in Durham are
23 places to stay in this guide with known coordinates, grouped by straight-line distance from the city centre (the point Wikidata gives for Durham), nearest first. Distance on foot or by road is longer.
10 places
- Travelodge Durham · 0.5 km
- Radisson Blu Hotel · 0.7 km
- Wheatsheaf Inn, Durham · 0.8 km
- The Royal County Hotel · 0.9 km
- 56, 57, 58 and 59, Old Elvet · 0.9 km
- Hotel Indigo Durham · 0.9 km
- OYO The Townhouse · 0.9 km
- Old Shire Hall (University Office) · 1.0 km
- City Hotel · 1.0 km
- Three Tuns Hotel · 1.0 km
3 places
- Castle View Guest House · 1.2 km
- The Victoria · 1.3 km
- Moor End Guest House · 2.4 km
6 places
- Ramside Hall · 3.6 km
- Hallgarth Manor Hotel · 4.9 km
- Three Horseshoes Inn · 5.7 km
- The Old Mill · 8.5 km
- Whitworth Hall, County Durham · 9.5 km
- Burnhopeside Hall · 9.7 km
4 places
- Thomas Wright House · 10.8 km
- Starshinezzz · 12.6 km
- Post Chaise Hotel · 14.8 km
- Grand Hotel · 15.6 km
Where to stay
More hotels in Durham
22 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Whitworth Hall, County Durham | 9.5 km | |
| Old Shire Hall (University Office) | 1.0 km | |
| The Victoria | 1.3 km | |
| Hallgarth Manor Hotel | 4.9 km | |
| Post Chaise Hotel | 14.8 km | |
| Radisson Blu Hotel | 0.7 km | |
| The Royal County Hotel | 0.9 km | |
| Three Horseshoes Inn | 5.7 km | |
| Three Tuns Hotel | 1.0 km | |
| 56, 57, 58 and 59, Old Elvet | 0.9 km | |
| Burnhopeside Hall | 9.7 km | |
| Castle View Guest House | 1.2 km | |
| City Hotel | 1.0 km | |
| Grand Hotel | 15.6 km | |
| Hotel Indigo Durham | 0.9 km | |
| Moor End Guest House | 2.4 km | |
| OYO The Townhouse OYO Rooms | 0.9 km | |
| Ramside Hall | 3.6 km | |
| Starshinezzz | 12.6 km | |
| The Old Mill | 8.5 km | |
| Thomas Wright House | 10.8 km | |
| Wheatsheaf Inn, Durham | 0.8 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Durham
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Durham are July and August. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 20 °C; November is the wettest, with about 76 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Durham travel calendar 2027: every day with public and school holidays, sunrise and sunset and the typical high and low (also as JSON).
Public holidays in United Kingdom, 2026
Shops and offices may close on these dates.
Getting there
Getting to Durham: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Newcastle International Airport (NCL), about 29 km from the city centre in a straight line; Teesside International Airport (MME, 32 km) and Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA, 102 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Newcastle International Airport (NCL) is 25 miles (40 km) north of Durham and approx. 7.7 miles (12.4 km) north of Newcastle. Most international destinations are Mediterranean holiday resorts, but year-round flights include Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Milan and Paris. Emirates fly from Dubai, with global connections. Domestic flights into Newcastle are from London Heathrow, Aberdeen, Belfast, Bristol, Exeter, Jersey, Newquay and Southampton. Tyne & Wear Metro trains run from the airport to Newcastle Central Station every 12 min, taking 24 min.
Getting around
Walk. The centre of Durham is compact and congested, driving is tedious and parking (other than that mentioned above) is effectively non-existent. Durham Cathedral Bus runs Monday to Saturday between Durham train station and the Cathedral, with stops at Durham University, city centre and Durham Castle. Tickets are £1.00 for adults and 50p for children 13 years and under, concessions apply and a P&R ticket is also valid for this bus. For visitors with reduced mobility there is a Shopmobility scheme from Prince Bishops Place car park (Level 1.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Durham
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 1 place
of 1 place
Questions
Durham: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Durham?
By published guest score: Travelodge Durham (4.4 / 5 · 2,153 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Durham?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Durham are July and August. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 20 °C; November is the wettest, with about 76 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Durham?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Newcastle International Airport (NCL), about 29 km from the city centre in a straight line; Teesside International Airport (MME, 32 km) and Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA, 102 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Durham?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Durham
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; public holidays from python-holidays (MIT); places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.