Warmest places to go from Brussels in August
The warmest place you can reach from Brussels in August within 15 hours is Kom Ombo, 36.8 °C, costing 894 kg CO₂e return. The lowest-carbon option is Düren at 4.4 kg — 203× less carbon, for 17.4 degrees less warmth.
The 10 warmest places within 15 hours of Brussels
Ranked on warmth in August 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 warmth each extra kilogram buys.
Aswan, Egypt36.4 °C · 12.0 h sun a dayair 8h 36m · 901 kg CO₂e return
Luxor, Egypt36.3 °C · 12.0 h sun a dayair 8h 24m · 927 kg CO₂e return
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt36.0 °C · 12.3 h sun a dayair 8h 18m · 900 kg CO₂e return
Aqaba, Jordan34.0 °C · 12.5 h sun a dayair 8h 6m · 875 kg CO₂e return
Sanliurfa, Turkey33.3 °C · 12.9 h sun a dayair 7h 36m · 782 kg CO₂e return
Batman, Turkey32.7 °C · 12.8 h sun a dayair 7h 48m · 809 kg CO₂e return- Diyarbakir, Turkey32.3 °C · 12.9 h sun a dayair 7h 42m · 793 kg CO₂e return
Marrakesh, Morocco31.1 °C · 12.2 h sun a dayair 6h 42m · 595 kg CO₂e return
Ouarzazate, Morocco31.0 °C · 11.8 h sun a dayair 6h 42m · 604 kg CO₂e return
Kairouan, Tunisia30.5 °C · 12.6 h sun a dayair 5h 48m · 440 kg CO₂e return
Without flying
The warmest places the train reaches within 15 hours. Madrid is 28.2 °C for 38.8 kg — about 23× less carbon than flying to Aswan.
- Madrid, Spain28.2 °C · 12.7 h sun a dayrail 14h 36m · 38.8 kg CO₂e return
Lleida, Spain27.9 °C · 12.8 h sun a dayrail 12h 48m · 31.4 kg CO₂e return
Zaragoza, Spain27.2 °C · 12.7 h sun a dayrail 12h 30m · 32.4 kg CO₂e return- Florence, Italy26.6 °C · 12.4 h sun a dayrail 14h 6m · 27.8 kg CO₂e return
Nice, France25.8 °C · 12.5 h sun a dayrail 10h · 24.3 kg CO₂e return- Bologna, Italy25.8 °C · 12.1 h sun a dayrail 13h 30m · 25.9 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 warmer in August 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 Andujar can only be reached by air — 395 kg CO₂e, in 5h 36m. Allow up to 24 hours and the train does the same journey for 46.3 kg in 18h 42m — 9× less carbon for 13h 6m more travelling.
| Destination | How | CO₂e return | Temp | Sun/day | Rain/day | Journey |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Düren, Germany | Rail | 4.4 kg | 19.4 °C | 10.6 h | 3.1 mm | 4h 12m |
| Koblenz, Germany | Rail | 6.9 kg | 20.4 °C | 10.9 h | 3.2 mm | 5h 6m |
| Karlsruhe, Germany | Rail | 10.5 kg | 21.4 °C | 11.2 h | 2.1 mm | 6h 54m |
| Sion, Switzerland | Rail | 16.5 kg | 22.8 °C | 11.6 h | 2.3 mm | 9h 18m |
| Aix-les-Bains, France | Rail | 17.3 kg | 23.6 °C | 11.5 h | 1.7 mm | 8h |
| Bellinzona, Switzerland | Rail | 18.3 kg | 24.5 °C | 11.8 h | 4.6 mm | 10h 42m |
| Turin, Italy | Rail | 20.3 kg | 25.3 °C | 12.2 h | 3.1 mm | 10h |
| Pavia, Italy | Rail | 21.3 kg | 26.2 °C | 12.1 h | 2.1 mm | 12h 18m |
| Lleida, Spain | Rail | 31.4 kg | 27.9 °C | 12.8 h | 0.3 mm | 12h 48m |
| Aranjuez, Spain | Air | 340 kg | 28.9 °C | 12.8 h | 0.4 mm | 5h 18m |
| Andujar, Spain | Air | 395 kg | 31.1 °C | 12.7 h | 0.1 mm | 5h 36m |
| Palma del Rio, Spain | Air | 415 kg | 31.5 °C | 12.8 h | 0.0 mm | 5h 42m |
| Tozeur, Tunisia | Air | 480 kg | 33.1 °C | 12.4 h | 0.0 mm | 6h |
| Recani, Morocco | Air | 576 kg | 34.9 °C | 12.0 h | 0.1 mm | 6h 36m |
| Zagora, Morocco | Air | 612 kg | 35.9 °C | 12.1 h | 0.0 mm | 6h 42m |
| Kom Ombo, Egypt | Air | 894 kg | 36.8 °C | 11.9 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 Zagora (612 kg, 35.9 °C) to Kom Ombo (894 kg, 36.8 °C) buys 0.9 °C more warmth for an extra 282 kg — 313 kg of CO₂e per degree. That single step is the most expensive warmth on the whole curve.
The pick of them
LleidaSpain31.4 kg CO₂e returnwarm, bright and dry
Kom OmboEgypt894 kg CO₂e returnwarm, bright and dryThe same month, asked differently
August 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 Kom Ombo
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Other months from Brussels
August 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
- Lleida: Jorge Franganillo from Barcelona, Spain, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Kom Ombo: Jerzy Strzelecki, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- 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
- Sanliurfa: Damien Halleux Radermecker, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Batman: Ferhat 72 at Turkish Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Marrakesh: Donar Reiskoffer, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Ouarzazate: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Kairouan: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Zaragoza: Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Nice: Moody Dreiza (Moody751 at English Wikipedia), CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
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Questions
Where is the warmest place to go from Brussels in August?
Kom Ombo, Egypt, at 36.8 °C. Reaching it emits 894 kg CO₂e return, travelling 8h 36m each way by air (modelled).
Can I get somewhere warm from Brussels in August without flying?
Yes. Lleida reaches 27.9 °C and is reachable by rail or ferry in 12h 48m (modelled), emitting 31.4 kg CO₂e return — though Kom Ombo is warmer still, if you fly.
How much carbon does a return trip from Brussels to Kom Ombo produce?
894 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.