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France · 46.78°, 4.85° · 179 m

Chalon-sur-Saône

Reaching Chalon-sur-Saône from Zurich emits 8.5 kg CO₂e return by rail (5h 54m each way) against 72.3 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 21.9 °C in August and 4.3 °C in January.

8.5kg CO₂e return by rail, from Zurich
161kg CO₂e return by air, from London
12.4hours of sunshine a day in June, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Chalon-sur-Saône
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Amsterdam622 km18.4 kg10h 30m156 kg4h 18m
Barcelona637 km18.8 kg10h 42m160 kg4h 18m
Berlin886 km26.2 kg14h 6m223 kg4h 42m
Birmingham798 km31.9 kg13h201 kg4h 36m
Bristol750 km32.6 kg13h 6m189 kg4h 30m
Brussels454 km13.4 kg8h 12m114 kg4h 6m
Cardiff783 km35.8 kg13h 36m197 kg4h 30m
Copenhagen1,124 km33.2 kg17h 24m283 kg5h
Dublin1,074 km270 kg4h 54m
Edinburgh1,161 km61.7 kg18h292 kg5h
Frankfurt466 km13.8 kg8h 24m117 kg4h 6m
Glasgow1,190 km63.5 kg18h 18m299 kg5h 6m
Leeds902 km40.7 kg14h 30m227 kg4h 42m
Lisbon1,449 km42.8 kg21h 48m364 kg5h 24m
Liverpool924 km41.9 kg14h 42m232 kg4h 42m
London638 km18.8 kg10h 42m161 kg4h 24m
Madrid987 km29.1 kg15h 30m248 kg4h 48m
Manchester899 km39.9 kg14h 18m226 kg4h 42m
Milan365 km10.8 kg7h91.7 kg4h
Munich527 km15.6 kg9h 12m133 kg4h 12m
Newcastle1,017 km50.8 kg16h 12m256 kg4h 54m
Nottingham809 km32.9 kg13h 6m204 kg4h 36m
Oslo1,510 km44.6 kg22h 42m380 kg5h 30m
Paris297 km8.8 kg6h 6m74.6 kg3h 54m
Prague795 km23.5 kg12h 54m200 kg4h 36m
Rome816 km24.1 kg13h 12m205 kg4h 36m
Sheffield861 km37.1 kg13h 48m217 kg4h 36m
Southampton648 km27.8 kg12h 18m163 kg4h 24m
Stockholm1,645 km48.5 kg24h 30m414 kg5h 42m
Vienna879 km25.9 kg14h221 kg4h 42m
Warsaw1,311 km38.7 kg19h 54m330 kg5h 12m
Zurich287 km8.5 kg5h 54m72.3 kg3h 54m

The year in Chalon-sur-Saône

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C4.35.98.810.515.020.121.221.918.014.37.74.5
Sun h/day3.45.67.78.710.612.412.411.89.97.14.53.2
Rain mm/day2.01.83.52.93.03.32.91.52.95.43.42.5

When to go

Chalon-sur-Saône is warmest in August at 21.9 °C but brightest in June, averaging 12.4 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 4.3 °C.

Staying there

A hotel room in France emits about 6.7 kg CO₂e per night under UK Government 2026 factors, so a week adds roughly 47 kg — about 5.5× the carbon of getting there by rail from Zurich.

How busy it gets

Saône-et-Loire records 3.8 overnight stays per resident a year (2,104,650 nights in 2025). Comparatively quiet by European standards.

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 Chalon-sur-Saône

Places to stay in Chalon-sur-Saône, France, 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.