Low-carbon travel from Edinburgh, month by month
From Edinburgh, the warmest place reachable without flying is Nîmes at 25.8 °C in August, for 69.9 kg CO₂e return. In 5 months of the year the train reaches somewhere averaging 18 °C or more within the time budget; in the rest, nothing that warm is modelled within reach by rail.
Three questions, twelve months. Pick the one that matches what you're actually after — the warmest place is rarely the sunniest.
| Month | Warmest | °C | kg | Sunniest | h/day | kg | Best without flying |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | Maspalomas | 19.6 | 827 | Icod de los Vinos | 9.9 | 817 | Marseille · 72.5 kg |
| February | Maspalomas | 18.8 | 827 | Santa Cruz de Tenerife | 10.3 | 812 | Marseille · 72.5 kg |
| March | Kom Ombo | 23.6 | 1,067 | Arona | 11.5 | 825 | Marseille · 72.5 kg |
| April | Kom Ombo | 28.3 | 1,067 | Faro | 12.2 | 537 | Montpellier · 70.3 kg |
| May | Edfu | 31.4 | 1,055 | Gävle | 14.7 | 325 | Montpellier · 70.3 kg |
| June | Edfu | 36.2 | 1,055 | Rauma | 16.1 | 386 | Montpellier · 70.3 kg |
| July | Nefta | 36.0 | 653 | Nice | 14.3 | 390 | Nîmes · 69.9 kg |
| August | Kom Ombo | 36.8 | 1,067 | Beypazari | 13.3 | 778 | Nîmes · 69.9 kg |
| September | Sharm el-Sheikh | 33.7 | 1,008 | Izmir | 11.6 | 747 | Marseille · 72.5 kg |
| October | Sharm el-Sheikh | 29.0 | 1,008 | Luxor | 11.0 | 1,036 | Marseille · 72.5 kg |
| November | Sharm el-Sheikh | 24.6 | 1,008 | Aswan | 10.8 | 1,075 | La Teste-de-Buch · 65.6 kg |
| December | Maspalomas | 19.7 | 827 | Luxor | 10.0 | 1,036 | Plymouth · 50.1 kg |
The warmest well-known place, month by month
The frontier above trades warmth against carbon. These are the plainer answers: each month's warmest well-known place (see the method) within 15 hours of Edinburgh, and the warmest the train reaches.
- JanuaryMaspalomas 19.6 °Cair 827 kg · by train Marseille 8.5 °C
- FebruaryMaspalomas 18.8 °Cair 827 kg · by train Marseille 9.3 °C
- MarchAswan 23.4 °Cair 1,075 kg · by train Montpellier 11.6 °C
- AprilAswan 28.1 °Cair 1,075 kg · by train Montpellier 14.1 °C
- MayAswan 31.5 °Cair 1,075 kg · by train Montpellier 17.4 °C
- JuneAswan 36.2 °Cair 1,075 kg · by train Montpellier 22.3 °C
- JulyAswan 36.0 °Cair 1,075 kg · by train Montpellier 25.4 °C
- AugustAswan 36.4 °Cair 1,075 kg · by train Avignon 25.6 °C
- SeptemberAswan 34.1 °Cair 1,075 kg · by train Marseille 20.6 °C
- OctoberAswan 29.1 °Cair 1,075 kg · by train Marseille 18.2 °C
- NovemberSharm el-Sheikh 24.6 °Cair 1,008 kg · by train Marseille 12.4 °C
- DecemberSharm el-Sheikh 20.4 °Cair 1,008 kg · by train Plymouth 9.3 °C
Photo credits
- Maspalomas: JUAN RAMON RODRIGUEZ SOSA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Aswan: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Sharm el-Sheikh: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Warmest is not sunniest
They come apart, and the gap is the useful part. A mild Atlantic coast can be grey; a colder inland month can be bright. Temperature alone will send you somewhere wet, which is why every table on this site carries sunshine and rainfall next to the degrees.
Every month, both questions
Warmest from Edinburgh
Sunniest from Edinburgh
Coolest from Edinburgh
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