Benidorm
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Reaching Benidorm from London emits 42.6 kg CO₂e return by rail (18h 30m each way) against 363 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 26.9 °C in July and 12.3 °C in January.
Benidorm is a seaside city on the Costa Blanca in the province of Alicante. — Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0
When to go: Benidorm is warmest in July (26.9 °C); coldest in January (12.3 °C). Month by month
Getting there
| From | Distance | By rail | Rail time | By air | Air time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | 1,587 km | 46.8 kg | 18h 54m | 399 kg | 5h 36m |
| Barcelona | 372 km | 11.0 kg | 6h 36m | 93.6 kg | 4h |
| Berlin | 1,872 km | 55.3 kg | 24h 12m | 471 kg | 6h |
| Birmingham | 1,556 km | 55.6 kg | 21h 12m | 392 kg | 5h 36m |
| Bristol | 1,449 km | 56.3 kg | 21h 30m | 365 kg | 5h 24m |
| Brussels | 1,413 km | 41.7 kg | 17h | 356 kg | 5h 24m |
| Cardiff | 1,459 km | 59.5 kg | 21h 48m | 367 kg | 5h 24m |
| Copenhagen | 2,126 km | 62.8 kg | 29h 42m | 535 kg | 6h 18m |
| Dublin | 1,710 km | — | — | 430 kg | 5h 48m |
| Edinburgh | 1,950 km | 85.5 kg | 24h 12m | 490 kg | 6h 6m |
| Frankfurt | 1,464 km | 43.2 kg | 19h 12m | 368 kg | 5h 30m |
| Glasgow | 1,951 km | 87.2 kg | 24h 24m | 491 kg | 6h 6m |
| Leeds | 1,700 km | 64.4 kg | 22h 6m | 428 kg | 5h 48m |
| Lisbon | 783 km | 23.1 kg | 13h 18m | 197 kg | 4h 30m |
| Liverpool | 1,668 km | 65.6 kg | 22h 6m | 420 kg | 5h 42m |
| London | 1,442 km | 42.6 kg | 18h 30m | 363 kg | 5h 24m |
| Madrid | 371 km | 10.9 kg | 4h 54m | 93.3 kg | 4h |
| Manchester | 1,669 km | 63.6 kg | 22h | 420 kg | 5h 42m |
| Milan | 1,088 km | 32.1 kg | 17h 36m | 274 kg | 5h |
| Munich | 1,424 km | 42.0 kg | 21h 18m | 358 kg | 5h 24m |
| Newcastle | 1,831 km | 74.5 kg | 22h 42m | 461 kg | 5h 54m |
| Nottingham | 1,605 km | 56.6 kg | 21h 36m | 404 kg | 5h 36m |
| Oslo | 2,497 km | 73.7 kg | 38h 6m | 628 kg | 6h 48m |
| Paris | 1,164 km | 34.4 kg | 14h 6m | 293 kg | 5h 6m |
| Prague | 1,723 km | 50.8 kg | 26h 54m | 433 kg | 5h 48m |
| Rome | 1,135 km | 33.5 kg | 18h 24m | 286 kg | 5h |
| Sheffield | 1,654 km | 60.8 kg | 21h 54m | 416 kg | 5h 42m |
| Southampton | 1,379 km | 51.5 kg | 21h 12m | 347 kg | 5h 18m |
| Stockholm | 2,647 km | 78.1 kg | 36h 6m | 666 kg | 7h |
| Vienna | 1,707 km | 50.4 kg | 26h 24m | 429 kg | 5h 48m |
| Warsaw | 2,231 km | 65.8 kg | 31h 42m | 561 kg | 6h 30m |
| Zurich | 1,208 km | 35.6 kg | 19h 18m | 304 kg | 5h 6m |
The year in Benidorm
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temp °C | 12.3 | 12.3 | 15.0 | 16.4 | 18.7 | 22.9 | 26.9 | 26.8 | 23.1 | 20.7 | 16.6 | 12.8 |
| Sun h/day | 8.3 | 8.7 | 10.4 | 11.4 | 12.2 | 13.0 | 13.6 | 12.3 | 10.8 | 9.7 | 8.9 | 8.4 |
| Rain mm/day | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Sea °C | 15.6 | 14.6 | 15.1 | 17.0 | 19.5 | 22.9 | 26.5 | 27.8 | 26.0 | 23.2 | 18.3 | 16.5 |
When to go
Benidorm is warmest in July at 26.9 °C, and that is also its brightest month. Its coldest is January at 12.3 °C.
Three months worth booking
The same year of measurements, decided rather than tabulated. Each opens the map below on dates in that month.
Staying there
A hotel room in Spain emits about 7 kg CO₂e per night under UK Government 2026 factors — a country average per occupied room, not this or any particular hotel. 7 nights in one room adds roughly 49 kg — about 4.5× the carbon of one person getting there by rail from Madrid. Two sharing the room halve that share each; the journey does not halve.
How busy it gets
Alicante/Alacant records 16 overnight stays per resident a year (32,579,948 nights in 2024). A well-visited region, busy in season but not overwhelmed.
Eurostat, nights spent at tourist accommodation by NUTS 3 region, against resident population. Shown for context only — it plays no part in which destinations appear or in what order. Eurostat does not cover the United Kingdom after 2016, nor North Africa or the Levant at all, so this figure is absent for roughly a third of the destinations here.
Where to stay in Benidorm
Places to stay in Benidorm, Spain, on a live map. Prices and availability come from Stay22 and its booking partners.
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Distances are great-circle. Rail assumes international rail at 0.01135 kg CO₂e per passenger-km with a 1.3× track detour allowance; flights use 0.12576 kg per passenger-km including radiative forcing. Journey times are modelled, not timetabled. Full method.