Coast to Coast Walk: Compare 6 Walking Holidays from 6 Firms
Self-guided Coast to Coast walking holidays, side by side: how long each firm takes, what it costs and what the price includes.
- Holidays
- 6
- on Mooch, checked weekly
- Firms
- 6
- self-guided operators
- Length
- 12–18 days
- whole trail, shortest to longest
- Price from
- £1,360
- per person, two sharing
The whole trail, firm by firm
Cheapest first. Each price is the operator's own 'from' price per person for the itinerary shown, and includes luggage transfer between overnight stops unless the row says otherwise.
| Firm | Holiday | Days | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brigantes | Coast to Coast: St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay | 12 | £1,360 |
| C2C Packhorse | Coast to Coast: St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay | 13 | £1,596 |
| Mickledore | Coast to Coast Path: St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay | 14 | £1,747 |
| Celtic Trails | Coast to Coast: St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay | 14 | £1,850 |
| Discovery Travel | Coast to Coast (Wainwright's): St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay | 16 | £1,995 |
| Macs Adventure | Coast to Coast Walk | 18 | £2,275 |
The trail
- Starts at St Bees on the western edge of the Lake District National Park and ends at Robin Hood's Bay in the North York Moors National Park. National Trails
- The Coast to Coast Path National Trail is 190 miles (306 km) and draws on Alfred Wainwright's route, first published in 1973 in A Coast to Coast Walk. National Trails
Coast to Coast weather by month
At Newton Rigg, the warmest month is July (average high 19.5°C) and the wettest is December (117.7 mm). It gets about 981 mm of rain a year.
°C, average daily low to high; the number is the high
mm a month
Show the numbers
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Frost days | Rain mm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 6.4 | 0.9 | 11.1 | 103.1 |
| Feb | 7.0 | 0.9 | 10.6 | 81.1 |
| Mar | 9.1 | 1.9 | 8.6 | 69.4 |
| Apr | 12.0 | 3.3 | 4.8 | 52.0 |
| May | 15.3 | 5.7 | 1.8 | 55.5 |
| Jun | 17.6 | 8.7 | 0.0 | 66.5 |
| Jul | 19.5 | 10.6 | 0.0 | 74.7 |
| Aug | 18.9 | 10.3 | 0.0 | 80.5 |
| Sep | 16.6 | 8.2 | 0.1 | 75.6 |
| Oct | 12.8 | 5.7 | 2.9 | 102.4 |
| Nov | 9.1 | 2.9 | 7.1 | 102.8 |
| Dec | 6.8 | 0.7 | 12.0 | 117.7 |
Station: Newton Rigg, near Penrith: about 17 km from Shap, at the eastern edge of the Lake District. The station has no sunshine record. Averages of the monthly figures for 1991–2020, worked out by Mooch from the Met Office historic station data, Newton Rigg (Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). They are not the Met Office's official climate averages.
Questions people ask
- How long does a self-guided Coast to Coast holiday take, and what does it cost?
- The 6 whole-trail holidays listed here take 12 to 18 days, from £1,360 per person including luggage transfer, from 6 firms. Prices are each firm's lowest published price and change by season.
- Which part of the Coast to Coast is hardest?
- The first half. Mickledore says to expect a considerable amount of ascent and descent in the Lake District, and calls the first half the hardest. After Richmond there is a flat section for a day or two, then more up and down to the end, but far less than in the Lakes. Mickledore
- When can you walk it with a firm?
- Discovery Travel offers its Coast to Coast holidays from March to October. Discovery Travel
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How this was put together
Where a firm sells several versions of the walk, Mooch shows one; for the firms added in November 2026 that is the shortest itinerary covering the whole trail. Price and length always come from the same itinerary on the firm's site, and Mooch's availability checker revisits each page about once a week. Trail facts are from the official trail site, read 8 November 2026.