Sunniest places to go from Warsaw in December
In December, the sunniest well-known place within 15 hours of Warsaw is Aswan, Egypt, 10.1 h of sun a day and 18.7 °C, about 7h 54m each way by air. Without flying, it is Udine, Italy, 5.6 h of sun a day, about 14h 24m each way by train, for about 32× less carbon (26.2 kg CO₂e return against 827 kg).
The 10 sunniest places within 15 hours of Warsaw
Ranked on sunshine in December 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, Egypt10.1 h · 18.7 °C · mostly dryair ≈ 7h 54m · 827 kg CO₂e return
Luxor, Egypt10.0 h · 18.0 °C · mostly dryair ≈ 7h 36m · 782 kg CO₂e return
Hurghada, Egypt9.8 h · 19.9 °C · mostly dry · sea 24.7 °Cair ≈ 7h 30m · 748 kg CO₂e return
Maspalomas, Spain9.4 h · 19.7 °C · mostly dry · sea 21.9 °Cair ≈ 8h 54m · 951 kg CO₂e return- Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain9.3 h · 18.9 °C · 1.3 mm rain a day · sea 22.2 °Cair ≈ 8h 54m · 946 kg CO₂e return
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain9.3 h · 19.1 °C · 2.8 mm rain a day · sea 21.9 °Cair ≈ 8h 54m · 942 kg CO₂e return
Ouarzazate, Morocco9.3 h · 10.3 °C · mostly dryair ≈ 7h 54m · 825 kg CO₂e return
Aqaba, Jordan9.2 h · 18.0 °C · mostly dry · sea 23.5 °Cair ≈ 7h 12m · 698 kg CO₂e return- Ifrane, Morocco9.2 h · 6.9 °C · mostly dryair ≈ 7h 24m · 741 kg CO₂e return
Oujda, Morocco9.1 h · 11.9 °C · mostly dryair ≈ 7h 6m · 671 kg CO₂e return
Without flying
The sunniest places the train reaches within 15 hours. Udine is 5.6 h for 26.2 kg — about 32× less carbon than flying to Aswan.
- Udine, Italy5.6 h · 4.4 °C · 3.0 mm rain a dayrail ≈ 14h 24m · 26.2 kg CO₂e return
Klagenfurt, Austria5.3 h · 0.1 °C · 2.2 mm rain a dayrail ≈ 12h 30m · 23.3 kg CO₂e return
Novo Mesto, Slovenia5.3 h · 3.3 °C · 2.4 mm rain a dayrail ≈ 13h 30m · 24.5 kg CO₂e return
Maribor, Slovenia5.3 h · 3.6 °C · 1.9 mm rain a dayrail ≈ 12h 12m · 21.8 kg CO₂e return- Trieste, Italy5.2 h · 7.1 °C · 3.6 mm rain a day · sea 13.9 °Crail ≈ 14h 36m · 26.6 kg CO₂e return
Celje, Slovenia5.0 h · 2.7 °C · 2.3 mm rain a dayrail ≈ 12h 54m · 23.2 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 Warsaw in December within 15 hours is Luxor, 10.0 h, costing 782 kg CO₂e return. The lowest-carbon option is Lublin at 4.5 kg — 174× less carbon, for 8.0 hours less sunshine.
Every destination here is on the efficiency frontier: nowhere else this site covers is both sunnier in December 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 Nice can only be reached by air — 350 kg CO₂e, in 5h 24m. Allow up to 24 hours and the train does the same journey for 41.0 kg in 22h 6m — 9× less carbon for 16h 42m more travelling.
| Destination | How | CO₂e return | Temp | Sun/day | Rain/day | Journey |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lublin, Poland | Rail | 4.5 kg | 1.3 °C | 2.0 h | 2.0 mm | 3h 42m |
| Tarnobrzeg, Poland | Rail | 5.6 kg | 1.9 °C | 2.8 h | 1.5 mm | 4h 12m |
| Nowy Sącz, Poland | Rail | 8.6 kg | 1.5 °C | 3.4 h | 1.6 mm | 5h 30m |
| Cieszyn, Poland | Rail | 9.5 kg | 2.2 °C | 3.7 h | 1.9 mm | 5h 54m |
| Győr, Hungary | Rail | 16.5 kg | 2.7 °C | 4.2 h | 1.9 mm | 9h 30m |
| Graz, Austria | Rail | 20.7 kg | 0.9 °C | 5.0 h | 1.6 mm | 11h 12m |
| Wolfsberg, Austria | Rail | 22.0 kg | 1.7 °C | 5.6 h | 2.0 mm | 11h 48m |
| Trento, Italy | Air | 250 kg | 4.4 °C | 6.5 h | 2.0 mm | 4h 48m |
| Tivoli, Italy | Air | 327 kg | 7.5 °C | 7.2 h | 2.2 mm | 5h 12m |
| Nice, France | Air | 350 kg | 9.2 °C | 7.5 h | 1.4 mm | 5h 24m |
| Cagliari, Italy | Air | 430 kg | 12.2 °C | 8.0 h | 0.6 mm | 5h 48m |
| Houmt Souk, Tunisia | Air | 552 kg | 15.2 °C | 8.5 h | 1.3 mm | 6h 24m |
| Marsa Matruh, Egypt | Air | 598 kg | 16.2 °C | 9.1 h | 0.5 mm | 6h 42m |
| Al Fayyum, Egypt | Air | 673 kg | 16.9 °C | 9.6 h | 0.0 mm | 7h 6m |
| Luxor, Egypt | Air | 782 kg | 18.0 °C | 10.0 h | 0.0 mm | 7h 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 Al Fayyum (673 kg, 9.6 h) to Luxor (782 kg, 10.0 h) buys 0.4 hours more sunshine for an extra 109 kg — 273 kg of CO₂e per hour. That single step is the most expensive sunshine on the whole curve.
The pick of them
LublinPoland4.5 kg CO₂e returncoolWolfsbergAustria22.0 kg CO₂e returncoolLuxorEgypt782 kg CO₂e returnwarm, bright and dryThe same month, asked differently
December 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 Luxor
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Other months from Warsaw
December from elsewhere
- Amsterdam
- Barcelona
- Berlin
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Brussels
- Cardiff
- Copenhagen
- Dublin
- Edinburgh
- Frankfurt
- Glasgow
- Leeds
- Lisbon
- Liverpool
- London
- Madrid
- Manchester
- Milan
- Munich
- Newcastle
- Nottingham
- Oslo
- Paris
- Prague
- Rome
- Sheffield
- Southampton
- Stockholm
- Vienna
- Warsaw
- Zurich
Photo credits
- Lublin: Pankrzysztoff, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, via Wikimedia Commons
- Luxor: Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Aswan: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Hurghada: Marc Ryckaert, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Maspalomas: JUAN RAMON RODRIGUEZ SOSA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Bengt Nyman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Ouarzazate: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Aqaba: Sana Janakat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Oujda: Farajiibrahim, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Klagenfurt: Johann Jaritz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Novo Mesto: Marko Pirc (https://www.flickr.com/photos/markopirc/), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Maribor: Ralf Roletschek, CC BY-SA 1.0 fi, via Wikimedia Commons
- Celje: Pv21, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Questions
Where is the sunniest place to go from Warsaw in December?
Luxor, Egypt, at 10.0 h. Reaching it emits 782 kg CO₂e return, travelling 7h 36m each way by air (modelled).
Can I get somewhere sunny from Warsaw in December without flying?
Yes. Wolfsberg reaches 5.6 h and is reachable by rail or ferry in 11h 48m (modelled), emitting 22.0 kg CO₂e return — though Luxor is sunnier still, if you fly.
How much carbon does a return trip from Warsaw to Luxor produce?
782 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.