Sunniest places to go from Warsaw in January
The sunniest place you can reach from Warsaw in January within 15 hours is Sharm el-Sheikh, 9.9 h, costing 735 kg CO₂e return. The lowest-carbon option is Kielce at 4.5 kg — 163× less carbon, for 7.2 hours less sunshine.
The 10 sunniest places within 15 hours of Warsaw
Ranked on sunshine in January 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, Egypt10.0 h · 16.8 °Cair 7h 54m · 827 kg CO₂e return
Hurghada, Egypt10.0 h · 18.2 °Cair 7h 30m · 748 kg CO₂e return
Luxor, Egypt9.9 h · 16.7 °Cair 7h 36m · 782 kg CO₂e return
Aqaba, Jordan9.8 h · 16.8 °Cair 7h 12m · 698 kg CO₂e return
Ouarzazate, Morocco9.7 h · 10.1 °Cair 7h 54m · 825 kg CO₂e return
Maspalomas, Spain9.6 h · 19.6 °Cair 8h 54m · 951 kg CO₂e return
Agadir, Morocco9.6 h · 17.1 °Cair 8h 6m · 874 kg CO₂e return- Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain9.5 h · 18.3 °Cair 8h 54m · 946 kg CO₂e return
Essaouira, Morocco9.5 h · 16.0 °Cair 8h · 853 kg CO₂e return
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain9.4 h · 18.8 °Cair 8h 54m · 942 kg CO₂e return
Without flying
The sunniest places the train reaches within 15 hours. Innsbruck is 5.6 h for 26.1 kg — about 32× less carbon than flying to Aswan.
- Innsbruck, Austria5.6 h · 1.9 °Crail 14h 36m · 26.1 kg CO₂e return
- Udine, Italy5.2 h · 4.3 °Crail 14h 24m · 26.2 kg CO₂e return
- Trieste, Italy5.2 h · 6.4 °Crail 14h 36m · 26.6 kg CO₂e return
Pécs, Hungary5.0 h · 2.8 °Crail 11h 36m · 21.1 kg CO₂e return
Szeged, Hungary5.0 h · 3.5 °Crail 11h 6m · 19.7 kg CO₂e return
Klagenfurt, Austria4.9 h · -0.4 °Crail 12h 30m · 23.3 kg CO₂e return
Rail times are modelled; air times include getting to and through the airport.
The low-carbon trade-off
Every destination here is on the efficiency frontier: nowhere else this site covers is both sunnier in January 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 Belluno can only be reached by air — 234 kg CO₂e, in 4h 42m. Allow up to 24 hours and the train does the same journey for 27.4 kg in 15h 12m — 9× less carbon for 10h 30m more travelling.
| Destination | How | CO₂e return | Temp | Sun/day | Rain/day | Journey |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kielce, Poland | Rail | 4.5 kg | 0.5 °C | 2.7 h | 2.4 mm | 3h 42m |
| Radomsko, Poland | Rail | 5.0 kg | 0.9 °C | 3.2 h | 2.3 mm | 3h 54m |
| Kedzierzyn-Kozle, Poland | Rail | 8.4 kg | 1.5 °C | 3.7 h | 2.1 mm | 5h 36m |
| Eger, Hungary | Rail | 14.3 kg | 2.1 °C | 4.7 h | 2.1 mm | 8h 24m |
| Villach, Austria | Rail | 23.9 kg | 1.5 °C | 5.1 h | 2.7 mm | 12h 48m |
| Innsbruck, Austria | Rail | 26.1 kg | 1.9 °C | 5.6 h | 2.2 mm | 14h 36m |
| Belluno, Italy | Air | 234 kg | 3.1 °C | 6.4 h | 2.1 mm | 4h 42m |
| Merano, Italy | Air | 237 kg | 5.0 °C | 6.9 h | 1.0 mm | 4h 48m |
| Taranto, Italy | Air | 337 kg | 10.9 °C | 7.6 h | 2.0 mm | 5h 18m |
| Catania, Italy | Air | 428 kg | 11.7 °C | 8.4 h | 1.5 mm | 5h 48m |
| Syracuse, Italy | Air | 439 kg | 12.2 °C | 8.7 h | 1.1 mm | 5h 48m |
| Bilbeis, Egypt | Air | 647 kg | 15.1 °C | 9.6 h | 0.3 mm | 6h 54m |
| Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt | Air | 735 kg | 18.9 °C | 9.9 h | 0.0 mm | 7h 24m |
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 Bilbeis (647 kg, 9.6 h) to Sharm el-Sheikh (735 kg, 9.9 h) buys 0.3 hours more sunshine for an extra 87.2 kg — 291 kg of CO₂e per hour. That single step is the most expensive sunshine on the whole curve.
The pick of them
KielcePoland4.5 kg CO₂e returncoolInnsbruckAustria26.1 kg CO₂e returncool
Sharm el-SheikhEgypt735 kg CO₂e returnwarm, bright and dryThe same month, asked differently
January 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 Sharm el-Sheikh
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Other months from Warsaw
January from elsewhere
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Photo credits
- Kielce: Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Sharm el-Sheikh: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 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
- Luxor: Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Aqaba: Sana Janakat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Ouarzazate: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Maspalomas: JUAN RAMON RODRIGUEZ SOSA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Agadir: Marco Riss, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Essaouira: Kayaky, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Bengt Nyman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Pécs: Elekes Andor, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Szeged: V.Mariann, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Klagenfurt: Johann Jaritz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Questions
Where is the sunniest place to go from Warsaw in January?
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, at 9.9 h. Reaching it emits 735 kg CO₂e return, travelling 7h 24m each way by air (modelled).
Can I get somewhere sunny from Warsaw in January without flying?
Yes. Innsbruck reaches 5.6 h and is reachable by rail or ferry in 14h 36m (modelled), emitting 26.1 kg CO₂e return — though Sharm el-Sheikh is sunnier still, if you fly.
How much carbon does a return trip from Warsaw to Sharm el-Sheikh produce?
735 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.