Cotswold Way: Compare 6 Walking Holidays from 6 Firms
Self-guided Cotswold Way 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
- 8–12 days
- whole trail, shortest to longest
- Price from
- £1,010
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery Travel | Cotswold Way: Chipping Campden to Bath | 8 | £1,010 |
| Mickledore | Cotswold Way: Chipping Campden to Bath | 8 | £1,045 |
| Hillwalk Tours | Cotswold Way: Chipping Campden to Bath | 9 | £1,139 |
| Celtic Trails | Cotswold Way: Chipping Campden to Bath | 9 | £1,215 |
| Let's Go Walking | Cotswold Way: Chipping Campden to Bath | 11 | £1,377 |
| Macs Adventure | Cotswold Way | 12 | £1,665 |
The trail
- Runs 102 miles (164 km) from Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire to Bath in Somerset. National Trails
Cotswold Way weather by month
At Ross-on-Wye, the warmest month is July (average high 22.3°C), the wettest is October (84.8 mm) and the sunniest is July (209 hours). It gets about 768 mm of rain a year.
°C, average daily low to high; the number is the high
mm a month
hours a month
Show the numbers
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Frost days | Rain mm | Sun hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 8.0 | 2.2 | 9.0 | 75.9 | 54.5 |
| Feb | 8.7 | 2.1 | 8.4 | 55.3 | 76.8 |
| Mar | 11.2 | 3.3 | 4.9 | 53.0 | 118.3 |
| Apr | 14.2 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 54.6 | 164.7 |
| May | 17.4 | 7.8 | 0.1 | 56.8 | 202.1 |
| Jun | 20.3 | 10.7 | 0.0 | 56.0 | 200.8 |
| Jul | 22.3 | 12.6 | 0.0 | 51.7 | 209.0 |
| Aug | 21.7 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 64.1 | 187.8 |
| Sep | 19.1 | 10.3 | 0.0 | 56.5 | 142.5 |
| Oct | 14.8 | 7.7 | 1.2 | 84.8 | 103.5 |
| Nov | 10.9 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 79.6 | 62.7 |
| Dec | 8.3 | 2.4 | 8.8 | 79.3 | 47.0 |
Station: Ross-on-Wye, the nearest station with a long record: about 35 km west of Cheltenham, 57 km from Chipping Campden. Averages of the monthly figures for 1991–2020, worked out by Mooch from the Met Office historic station data, Ross-on-Wye (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 Cotswold Way holiday take, and what does it cost?
- The 6 whole-trail holidays listed here take 8 to 12 days, from £1,010 per person including luggage transfer, from 6 firms. Prices are each firm's lowest published price and change by season.
- How hard is the Cotswold Way?
- It's rolling country rather than mountains, but it goes up and down a lot. Mickledore says the climbs and descents are usually 150 to 200 metres, with some short steep sections, and the paths are well maintained and signposted. Mickledore
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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.