Sunniest places to go from Brussels in November
In November, the sunniest well-known place within 15 hours of Brussels is Aswan, Egypt, 10.8 h of sun a day and 23.2 °C, about 8h 36m each way by air. Without flying, it is Lleida, Spain, 8.2 h of sun a day, about 12h 48m each way by train, for about 29× less carbon (31.4 kg CO₂e return against 901 kg).
The 10 sunniest places within 15 hours of Brussels
Ranked on sunshine in November alone, among well-known places (a Wikivoyage travel guide and at least 40,000 Wikipedia readers a year), one per area and at most three per country. The carbon is shown, not used to choose: the list further down is the other question, how much sunshine each extra kilogram buys.
Aswan, Egypt10.8 h · 23.2 °C · mostly dryair ≈ 8h 36m · 901 kg CO₂e return
Luxor, Egypt10.6 h · 22.9 °C · mostly dryair ≈ 8h 24m · 927 kg CO₂e return
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt10.3 h · 24.6 °C · mostly dry · sea 27.6 °Cair ≈ 8h 18m · 900 kg CO₂e return
Aqaba, Jordan9.9 h · 22.3 °C · mostly dry · sea 25.3 °Cair ≈ 8h 6m · 875 kg CO₂e return
Essaouira, Morocco9.7 h · 19.6 °C · mostly dry · sea 19.1 °Cair ≈ 6h 48m · 615 kg CO₂e return
Agadir, Morocco9.7 h · 20.9 °C · mostly dry · sea 19.4 °Cair ≈ 6h 54m · 641 kg CO₂e return
Heraklion, Greece9.7 h · 17.0 °C · mostly dry · sea 21.4 °Cair ≈ 6h 42m · 603 kg CO₂e return
Sfax, Tunisia9.6 h · 18.7 °C · mostly dry · sea 22.8 °Cair ≈ 6h · 469 kg CO₂e return
Ouarzazate, Morocco9.6 h · 15.5 °C · mostly dryair ≈ 6h 42m · 604 kg CO₂e return
Almería, Spain9.5 h · 17.2 °C · mostly dry · sea 18.2 °Cair ≈ 5h 42m · 415 kg CO₂e return
Without flying
The sunniest places the train reaches within 15 hours. Lleida is 8.2 h for 31.4 kg — about 29× less carbon than flying to Aswan.
Lleida, Spain8.2 h · 12.3 °C · 1.2 mm rain a dayrail ≈ 12h 48m · 31.4 kg CO₂e return- Reus, Spain8.1 h · 14.3 °C · 2.0 mm rain a day · sea 18.3 °Crail ≈ 12h 54m · 32.6 kg CO₂e return
Zaragoza, Spain7.9 h · 12.8 °C · mostly dryrail ≈ 12h 30m · 32.4 kg CO₂e return- Turin, Italy7.9 h · 6.1 °C · mostly dryrail ≈ 10h · 20.3 kg CO₂e return
- Cuneo, Italy7.9 h · 6.3 °C · mostly dryrail ≈ 10h 54m · 22.3 kg CO₂e return
- Barcelona, Spain7.5 h · 14.3 °C · 1.7 mm rain a day · sea 18.2 °Crail ≈ 11h · 31.4 kg CO₂e return
≈ is the model's estimate (air times include getting to and through the airport); ✓ is a rail journey checked against a real timetable, with the date it was checked. Temperatures are historical daily means for 2023–2024, averaged across day and night, so afternoons run warmer.
The low-carbon trade-off
The sunniest place you can reach from Brussels in November within 15 hours is Aswan, 10.8 h, costing 901 kg CO₂e return. The lowest-carbon option is Nijmegen at 4.5 kg — 200× less carbon, for 6.7 hours less sunshine.
Every destination here is on the efficiency frontier: nowhere else this site covers is both sunnier in November and lower in carbon. Anything a better option beats outright has been left out.
By rail or ferry By air
What the 15-hour limit costs: at this budget Cartagena can only be reached by air — 385 kg CO₂e, in 5h 30m. Allow up to 24 hours and the train does the same journey for 45.2 kg in 18h 48m — 9× less carbon for 13h 18m more travelling.
| Destination | How | CO₂e return | Temp | Sun/day | Rain/day | Journey |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nijmegen, The Netherlands | Rail | 4.5 kg | 7.1 °C | 4.1 h | 3.1 mm | 4h 12m |
| Étampes, France | Rail | 9.2 kg | 8.2 °C | 4.4 h | 2.5 mm | 4h 30m |
| Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany | Rail | 12.0 kg | 7.0 °C | 5.2 h | 4.5 mm | 7h 54m |
| Geneva, Switzerland | Rail | 15.7 kg | 7.0 °C | 6.0 h | 4.4 mm | 7h 24m |
| Aosta, Italy | Rail | 18.0 kg | 8.8 °C | 6.3 h | 6.1 mm | 10h |
| Bellinzona, Switzerland | Rail | 18.3 kg | 8.0 °C | 7.4 h | 2.0 mm | 10h 42m |
| Ivrea, Italy | Rail | 19.3 kg | 6.5 °C | 8.0 h | 1.2 mm | 10h 48m |
| Palma, Spain | Air | 317 kg | 16.5 °C | 8.5 h | 1.6 mm | 5h 12m |
| Cartagena, Spain | Air | 385 kg | 16.7 °C | 9.3 h | 0.4 mm | 5h 30m |
| Almería, Spain | Air | 415 kg | 17.2 °C | 9.5 h | 0.6 mm | 5h 42m |
| Tiznit, Morocco | Air | 661 kg | 21.0 °C | 9.9 h | 0.0 mm | 7h |
| Aswan, Egypt | Air | 901 kg | 23.2 °C | 10.8 h | 0.0 mm | 8h 36m |
Warm is not the same as pleasant, which is why sunshine and rainfall are shown alongside temperature. All three are ERA5 monthly means for 2023–2024.
Where the curve breaks
The frontier is gentle until it isn't. Going from Almería (415 kg, 9.5 h) to Tiznit (661 kg, 9.9 h) buys 0.4 hours more sunshine for an extra 246 kg — 615 kg of CO₂e per hour. That single step is the most expensive sunshine on the whole curve.
The pick of them
AswanEgypt901 kg CO₂e returnwarm, bright and dryThe same month, asked differently
November answers differently depending on what you are after, and the lists genuinely diverge: the brightest places are not the hottest, and in summer the useful question stops being where is warm at all.
Where to stay in Aswan
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Other months from Brussels
November from elsewhere
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- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Brussels
- Cardiff
- Copenhagen
- Dublin
- Edinburgh
- Frankfurt
- Glasgow
- Leeds
- Lisbon
- Liverpool
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- Madrid
- Manchester
- Milan
- Munich
- Newcastle
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- Oslo
- Paris
- Prague
- Rome
- Sheffield
- Southampton
- Stockholm
- Vienna
- Warsaw
- Zurich
Photo credits
- Aswan: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Luxor: Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Sharm el-Sheikh: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Aqaba: Sana Janakat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Essaouira: Kayaky, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Agadir: Marco Riss, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Heraklion: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Sfax: Csisc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Ouarzazate: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Almería: Javier rodriguez jimenez, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Lleida: Jorge Franganillo from Barcelona, Spain, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Zaragoza: Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Questions
Where is the sunniest place to go from Brussels in November?
Aswan, Egypt, at 10.8 h. Reaching it emits 901 kg CO₂e return, travelling 8h 36m each way by air (modelled).
Can I get somewhere sunny from Brussels in November without flying?
Yes. Ivrea reaches 8.0 h and is reachable by rail or ferry in 10h 48m (modelled), emitting 19.3 kg CO₂e return — though Aswan is sunnier still, if you fly.
How much carbon does a return trip from Brussels to Aswan produce?
901 kg CO₂e for one person, return, by air. That uses the UK Government's 2026 conversion factors, including radiative forcing for flights.
Carbon uses UK Government (DESNZ/DEFRA) 2026 conversion factors applied to great-circle distance, with radiative forcing included for flights. Rail journey times are modelled estimates, not timetabled services. Full method · download the data.