Ciudad Real
Reaching Ciudad Real from London emits 42.0 kg CO₂e return by rail (18h 48m each way) against 358 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 28.9 °C in July and 6.0 °C in December.
Ciudad Real is a city of 75,000 people (2018) in Castile-La Mancha, Spain, and capital of the province of La Mancha, made famous by Cervantes, whose literary anti-hero Don Quixote wanders the local plains, tilting at windmills. — Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0
When to go: Ciudad Real is warmest in July (28.9 °C); coldest in December (6.0 °C). Month by month
Getting there
| From | Distance | By rail | Rail time | By air | Air time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | 1,636 km | 48.3 kg | 19h 12m | 412 kg | 5h 42m |
| Barcelona | 582 km | 17.2 kg | 6h 54m | 146 kg | 4h 18m |
| Berlin | 2,008 km | 59.3 kg | 24h 30m | 505 kg | 6h 12m |
| Birmingham | 1,509 km | 55.1 kg | 21h 30m | 380 kg | 5h 30m |
| Bristol | 1,390 km | 55.8 kg | 21h 48m | 350 kg | 5h 24m |
| Brussels | 1,469 km | 43.4 kg | 17h 12m | 370 kg | 5h 30m |
| Cardiff | 1,390 km | 59.0 kg | 22h 6m | 350 kg | 5h 24m |
| Copenhagen | 2,221 km | 65.5 kg | 30h | 559 kg | 6h 30m |
| Dublin | 1,605 km | — | — | 404 kg | 5h 36m |
| Edinburgh | 1,887 km | 84.9 kg | 24h 30m | 475 kg | 6h |
| Frankfurt | 1,586 km | 46.8 kg | 19h 30m | 399 kg | 5h 36m |
| Glasgow | 1,877 km | 86.7 kg | 24h 42m | 472 kg | 6h |
| Leeds | 1,657 km | 63.9 kg | 22h 24m | 417 kg | 5h 42m |
| Lisbon | 453 km | 13.4 kg | 8h 30m | 114 kg | 4h 6m |
| Liverpool | 1,606 km | 65.0 kg | 22h 24m | 404 kg | 5h 36m |
| London | 1,423 km | 42.0 kg | 18h 48m | 358 kg | 5h 24m |
| Madrid | 160 km | 4.7 kg | 3h 48m | 40.3 kg | 3h 42m |
| Manchester | 1,617 km | 63.0 kg | 22h 18m | 407 kg | 5h 42m |
| Milan | 1,296 km | 38.2 kg | 20h 12m | 326 kg | 5h 12m |
| Munich | 1,606 km | 47.4 kg | 21h 36m | 404 kg | 5h 36m |
| Newcastle | 1,786 km | 74.0 kg | 23h | 449 kg | 5h 54m |
| Nottingham | 1,568 km | 56.1 kg | 21h 54m | 394 kg | 5h 36m |
| Oslo | 2,544 km | 75.1 kg | 38h 42m | 640 kg | 6h 54m |
| Paris | 1,206 km | 35.6 kg | 14h 24m | 303 kg | 5h 6m |
| Prague | 1,899 km | 56.0 kg | 28h 24m | 478 kg | 6h |
| Rome | 1,426 km | 42.1 kg | 22h 36m | 359 kg | 5h 24m |
| Sheffield | 1,612 km | 60.3 kg | 22h 12m | 405 kg | 5h 36m |
| Southampton | 1,340 km | 51.0 kg | 21h 30m | 337 kg | 5h 18m |
| Stockholm | 2,743 km | 80.9 kg | 36h 24m | 690 kg | 7h 12m |
| Vienna | 1,921 km | 56.7 kg | 26h 42m | 483 kg | 6h 6m |
| Warsaw | 2,415 km | 71.3 kg | 32h | 607 kg | 6h 42m |
| Zurich | 1,373 km | 40.5 kg | 19h 48m | 345 kg | 5h 18m |
The year in Ciudad Real
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temp °C | 6.8 | 7.9 | 11.6 | 16.0 | 18.5 | 23.4 | 28.9 | 28.8 | 20.9 | 17.0 | 11.5 | 6.0 |
| Sun h/day | 6.5 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 11.8 | 12.3 | 12.8 | 13.8 | 12.7 | 10.8 | 8.1 | 7.1 | 6.9 |
| Rain mm/day | 1.2 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
When to go
Ciudad Real is warmest in July at 28.9 °C, and that is also its brightest month. Its coldest is December at 6.0 °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 10.4× 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
Ciudad Real records 1.9 overnight stays per resident a year (935,863 nights in 2024). 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 Ciudad Real
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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.