The planets will be visible in the south-west. You can look up a simulation of the scene in advance using Stellarium, a free astronomy simulation software [0]. Keep in mind that it does not show the local surroundings.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium_(software)
[1] (german) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkelsch%C3%A4tzung
But get telescope in any case. Even cheap stuff from Lidl will show some details on saturn rings and cloud belts on jupiter. And there is also Moon and stars..
If you’re willing to spend some more, the Celestron NexStar 5 and 6 are solid telescopes that can automatically move to specific objects in the sky (this is called GoTo) which is really nice if you want to focus more on viewing objects rather than finding them. They’re low on maintenance too and work well for showing others objects in the sky as they can keep whatever you look at centered in the eyepiece.
These have two main issues, one they are a pain to set up so that you can easily track with the rotation of the earth. 2 that when zoomed in close enough to see planets, they will cross your field of view so fast.
My brother lent me some nice 8x50 binoculars and I've got so much more use out of them, and so much easy to use.
So unless you are prepared to put some serious effort in, I'd grab some £50 binoculars (8 or 10x50 are best, don't get any higher magnification (the first number) or they are too hard to hold still, and do go muhh smaller in the lens size (second number) as you want to gather all that extra light for your eyes.
I wish I'd spent 200 quid in 2 pairs of good binoculars - but hey you live and learn!
Is it worth getting a telescope? Probably not just for this. Cheaper scopes are disappointing and - unless you're doing astrophotography - non-disappointing scopes are ridiculously expensive.
But you can get a good view of Saturn and Jupiter's moons with basic binoculars on a tripod, and spending more will give a clearer view.
No need to spend a fortune - a couple of hundred pounds will do very nicely. You can also view other astronomical standards like the Pleiades, Andromeda, Orion, the craters on the Moon, and so on.