Warmest places to go from Copenhagen in October
In October, the warmest well-known place within 15 hours of Copenhagen is Aswan, Egypt, averaging 29.1 °C across day and night and 11.0 h sun a day, about 8h 42m each way by air. Without flying, it is Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, averaging 13.6 °C across day and night, about 15h each way by train, for about 34× less carbon (26.9 kg CO₂e return against 909 kg).
Every city at once, with and without flying: where is hot in October.
The 10 warmest places within 15 hours of Copenhagen
Ranked on warmth in October 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, Egypt29.1 °C · 11.0 h sun a day · mostly dryair ≈ 8h 42m · 909 kg CO₂e return
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt29.0 °C · 10.9 h sun a day · mostly dry · sea 28.3 °Cair ≈ 8h 12m · 891 kg CO₂e return
Luxor, Egypt28.4 °C · 11.0 h sun a day · mostly dryair ≈ 8h 24m · 868 kg CO₂e return
Aqaba, Jordan26.8 °C · 10.6 h sun a day · mostly dry · sea 26.3 °Cair ≈ 8h · 857 kg CO₂e return
Maspalomas, Spain24.9 °C · 10.7 h sun a day · mostly dry · sea 24.0 °Cair ≈ 8h 36m · 897 kg CO₂e return
Tataouine, Tunisia24.2 °C · 9.7 h sun a day · mostly dryair ≈ 6h 54m · 638 kg CO₂e return
Sfax, Tunisia24.1 °C · 9.5 h sun a day · 1.5 mm rain a day · sea 25.9 °Cair ≈ 6h 36m · 587 kg CO₂e return
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain23.9 °C · 10.4 h sun a day · 1.3 mm rain a day · sea 24.0 °Cair ≈ 8h 36m · 887 kg CO₂e return- Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain23.7 °C · 10.3 h sun a day · mostly dry · sea 24.7 °Cair ≈ 8h 36m · 888 kg CO₂e return
Sousse, Tunisia23.5 °C · 9.4 h sun a day · mostly dry · sea 25.0 °Cair ≈ 6h 24m · 556 kg CO₂e return
Without flying
The warmest places the train reaches within 15 hours. Freiburg im Breisgau is 13.6 °C for 26.9 kg — about 34× less carbon than flying to Aswan.
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany13.6 °C · 6.9 h sun a day · 3.3 mm rain a dayrail ≈ 15h · 26.9 kg CO₂e return- Middelburg, The Netherlands13.5 °C · 6.2 h sun a day · 3.3 mm rain a day · sea 16.2 °Crail ≈ 12h 48m · 22.1 kg CO₂e return
- Karlsruhe, Germany13.4 °C · 6.5 h sun a day · 3.2 mm rain a dayrail ≈ 13h 18m · 23.4 kg CO₂e return
Dunkirk, France13.4 °C · 6.3 h sun a day · 3.2 mm rain a day · sea 16.5 °Crail ≈ 14h 18m · 25.1 kg CO₂e return
Bratislava, Slovakia13.2 °C · 7.4 h sun a day · 1.8 mm rain a dayrail ≈ 14h 54m · 26.3 kg CO₂e return
Bruges, Belgium13.1 °C · 6.3 h sun a day · 3.1 mm rain a day · sea 15.9 °Crail ≈ 13h 24m · 23.4 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 warmest place you can reach from Copenhagen in October within 15 hours is Kom Ombo, 29.4 °C, costing 900 kg CO₂e return. The lowest-carbon option is Stralsund at 4.6 kg — 196× less carbon, for 18.1 degrees less warmth.
Every destination here is on the efficiency frontier: nowhere else this site covers is both warmer in October 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 Trieste can only be reached by air — 281 kg CO₂e, in 5h. Allow up to 24 hours and the train does the same journey for 33.0 kg in 18h 6m — 9× less carbon for 13h 6m more travelling.
| Destination | How | CO₂e return | Temp | Sun/day | Rain/day | Journey |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stralsund, Germany | Rail | 4.6 kg | 11.3 °C | 5.4 h | 2.7 mm | 4h 12m |
| Magdeburg, Germany | Rail | 11.8 kg | 12.2 °C | 5.7 h | 2.5 mm | 7h 48m |
| Gelsenkirchen, Germany | Rail | 17.3 kg | 12.9 °C | 5.7 h | 3.7 mm | 10h 30m |
| Baden-Baden, Germany | Rail | 24.3 kg | 14.3 °C | 6.8 h | 3.2 mm | 13h 48m |
| Trento, Italy | Air | 270 kg | 16.4 °C | 7.3 h | 6.1 mm | 4h 54m |
| Trieste, Italy | Air | 281 kg | 17.1 °C | 7.2 h | 10.8 mm | 5h |
| Pula, Croatia | Air | 303 kg | 18.3 °C | 8.2 h | 7.7 mm | 5h 6m |
| Bastia, France | Air | 367 kg | 19.5 °C | 8.5 h | 2.8 mm | 5h 24m |
| Taranto, Italy | Air | 434 kg | 20.9 °C | 9.4 h | 1.8 mm | 5h 48m |
| Milazzo, Italy | Air | 491 kg | 22.5 °C | 9.7 h | 0.6 mm | 6h 6m |
| Monastir, Tunisia | Air | 558 kg | 23.8 °C | 9.4 h | 1.0 mm | 6h 30m |
| Sfax, Tunisia | Air | 587 kg | 24.1 °C | 9.5 h | 1.5 mm | 6h 36m |
| Tozeur, Tunisia | Air | 615 kg | 25.4 °C | 10.0 h | 0.3 mm | 6h 48m |
| Aqaba, Jordan | Air | 857 kg | 26.8 °C | 10.6 h | 0.0 mm | 8h |
| Luxor, Egypt | Air | 868 kg | 28.4 °C | 11.0 h | 0.0 mm | 8h 24m |
| Kom Ombo, Egypt | Air | 900 kg | 29.4 °C | 11.0 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 Tozeur (615 kg, 25.4 °C) to Aqaba (857 kg, 26.8 °C) buys 1.4 °C more warmth for an extra 242 kg — 173 kg of CO₂e per degree. That single step is the most expensive warmth on the whole curve.
The pick of them
Baden-BadenGermany24.3 kg CO₂e returnmild but wet
Kom OmboEgypt900 kg CO₂e returnwarm, bright and dryThe same month, asked differently
October 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 Copenhagen
October 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
- Baden-Baden: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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
- Sharm el-Sheikh: Tanya Dedyukhina, 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
- Maspalomas: JUAN RAMON RODRIGUEZ SOSA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Tataouine: Averater, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Sfax: Csisc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Bengt Nyman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Sousse: BishkekRocks 15:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Freiburg im Breisgau: H.Helmlechner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Dunkirk: Pichasso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Bratislava: Rob Hurson from Kentstown, Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Bruges: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
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Questions
Where is the warmest place to go from Copenhagen in October?
Kom Ombo, Egypt, at 29.4 °C. Reaching it emits 900 kg CO₂e return, travelling 8h 36m each way by air (modelled).
Can I get somewhere warm from Copenhagen in October without flying?
Yes. Baden-Baden reaches 14.3 °C and is reachable by rail or ferry in 13h 48m (modelled), emitting 24.3 kg CO₂e return — though Kom Ombo is warmer still, if you fly.
How much carbon does a return trip from Copenhagen to Kom Ombo produce?
900 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.