Warmest places to go from Stockholm in January
The warmest place you can reach from Stockholm in January within 15 hours is Safaga, 18.9 °C, costing 895 kg CO₂e return. The lowest-carbon option is Gävle at 4.7 kg — 190× less carbon, for 21.6 degrees less warmth.
The 10 warmest places within 15 hours of Stockholm
Ranked on warmth 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 warmth each extra kilogram buys.
Maspalomas, Spain19.6 °C · 9.6 h sun a dayair 9h 18m · 1,017 kg CO₂e return
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt18.9 °C · 9.9 h sun a dayair 8h 24m · 868 kg CO₂e return
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain18.8 °C · 9.4 h sun a dayair 9h 12m · 1,007 kg CO₂e return- Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain18.3 °C · 9.5 h sun a dayair 9h 12m · 1,008 kg CO₂e return
Hurghada, Egypt18.2 °C · 10.0 h sun a dayair 8h 30m · 881 kg CO₂e return
Agadir, Morocco17.1 °C · 9.6 h sun a dayair 8h 36m · 895 kg CO₂e return
Aqaba, Jordan16.8 °C · 9.8 h sun a dayair 8h 12m · 894 kg CO₂e return
Aswan, Egypt16.8 °C · 10.0 h sun a dayair 8h 54m · 957 kg CO₂e return
Essaouira, Morocco16.0 °C · 9.5 h sun a dayair 8h 30m · 871 kg CO₂e return
Ponta Delgada, Portugal15.2 °C · 7.0 h sun a dayair 8h 42m · 914 kg CO₂e return
Without flying
The warmest places the train reaches within 15 hours. Leeuwarden is 4.6 °C for 30.0 kg — about 34× less carbon than flying to Maspalomas.
Leeuwarden, The Netherlands4.6 °C · 3.9 h sun a dayrail 14h 48m · 30.0 kg CO₂e return
Groningen, The Netherlands4.3 °C · 3.9 h sun a dayrail 14h 12m · 28.9 kg CO₂e return- Emden, Germany4.3 °C · 3.5 h sun a dayrail 13h 30m · 27.7 kg CO₂e return
Enschede, The Netherlands3.9 °C · 3.4 h sun a dayrail 15h · 31.1 kg CO₂e return
Bremen, Germany3.9 °C · 3.1 h sun a dayrail 12h 42m · 26.5 kg CO₂e return
Bremerhaven, Germany3.8 °C · 3.0 h sun a dayrail 12h 18m · 25.6 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 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 Den Helder can only be reached by air — 273 kg CO₂e, in 4h 54m. Allow up to 24 hours and the train does the same journey for 32.0 kg in 15h 42m — 9× less carbon for 10h 48m more travelling.
| Destination | How | CO₂e return | Temp | Sun/day | Rain/day | Journey |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gävle, Sweden | Rail | 4.7 kg | -2.7 °C | 2.2 h | 1.7 mm | 3h 48m |
| Örebro, Sweden | Rail | 4.8 kg | -1.8 °C | 2.1 h | 2.1 mm | 3h 48m |
| Linköping, Sweden | Rail | 5.1 kg | -0.9 °C | 2.2 h | 2.4 mm | 4h |
| Visby, Sweden | Rail | 5.6 kg | 0.6 °C | 2.3 h | 2.5 mm | 4h 12m |
| Helsingborg, Sweden | Rail | 14.3 kg | 1.6 °C | 3.2 h | 3.3 mm | 7h 18m |
| Copenhagen, Denmark | Rail | 15.4 kg | 2.4 °C | 2.9 h | 2.7 mm | 6h 48m |
| Sønderborg, Denmark | Rail | 20.7 kg | 3.3 °C | 3.7 h | 3.0 mm | 10h 12m |
| Wilhelmshaven, Germany | Rail | 26.2 kg | 4.1 °C | 3.5 h | 3.1 mm | 12h 42m |
| Den Helder, The Netherlands | Air | 273 kg | 5.7 °C | 3.9 h | 3.2 mm | 4h 54m |
| Ayr, United Kingdom | Air | 357 kg | 6.2 °C | 4.0 h | 4.5 mm | 5h 24m |
| Rijeka, Croatia | Air | 396 kg | 6.9 °C | 4.9 h | 8.0 mm | 5h 36m |
| Genoa, Italy | Air | 445 kg | 8.3 °C | 6.0 h | 3.2 mm | 5h 54m |
| Sanremo, Italy | Air | 468 kg | 9.6 °C | 7.0 h | 1.8 mm | 6h |
| Bastia, France | Air | 488 kg | 10.3 °C | 7.1 h | 2.1 mm | 6h 6m |
| Brindisi, Italy | Air | 523 kg | 11.1 °C | 7.4 h | 1.5 mm | 6h 18m |
| Corfu, Greece | Air | 552 kg | 11.9 °C | 7.1 h | 7.1 mm | 6h 24m |
| Bizerte, Tunisia | Air | 634 kg | 13.3 °C | 7.7 h | 1.8 mm | 6h 54m |
| San Pawl il-Bahar, Malta | Air | 657 kg | 14.4 °C | 8.8 h | 1.1 mm | 7h |
| Port Said, Egypt | Air | 829 kg | 15.8 °C | 9.5 h | 0.4 mm | 7h 54m |
| Safaga, Egypt | Air | 895 kg | 18.9 °C | 10.0 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 Den Helder (273 kg, 5.7 °C) to Ayr (357 kg, 6.2 °C) buys 0.5 °C more warmth for an extra 84.3 kg — 169 kg of CO₂e per degree. That single step is the most expensive warmth on the whole curve.
The pick of them
GävleSweden4.7 kg CO₂e returncoolWilhelmshavenGermany26.2 kg CO₂e returngrey and wet
SafagaEgypt895 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 Safaga
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Other months from Stockholm
January from elsewhere
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- 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
- Gävle: I99pema, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Safaga: User:MatthiasKabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Maspalomas: JUAN RAMON RODRIGUEZ SOSA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Sharm el-Sheikh: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Bengt Nyman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Hurghada: Marc Ryckaert, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Agadir: Marco Riss, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Aqaba: Sana Janakat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Aswan: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Essaouira: Kayaky, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Ponta Delgada: Maximilian Schönherr, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Leeuwarden: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Groningen: Braun & Hogenberg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Enschede: Kleuske, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Bremen: Klaus Grünberg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Bremerhaven: Tuxyso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Questions
Where is the warmest place to go from Stockholm in January?
Safaga, Egypt, at 18.9 °C. Reaching it emits 895 kg CO₂e return, travelling 8h 36m each way by air (modelled).
Can I get somewhere warm from Stockholm in January without flying?
Yes. Wilhelmshaven reaches 4.1 °C and is reachable by rail or ferry in 12h 42m (modelled), emitting 26.2 kg CO₂e return — though Safaga is warmer still, if you fly.
How much carbon does a return trip from Stockholm to Safaga produce?
895 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.