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Portugal · 37.02°, -7.93° · 24 m

Faro

Reaching Faro from Lisbon emits 6.4 kg CO₂e return by rail (5h each way) against 54.8 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 26.9 °C in August and 13.4 °C in December.

6.4kg CO₂e return by rail, from Lisbon
434kg CO₂e return by air, from London
13.5hours of sunshine a day in July, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Faro
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Amsterdam1,979 km58.4 kg29h 6m498 kg6h 6m
Barcelona995 km29.4 kg15h 36m250 kg4h 48m
Berlin2,393 km70.6 kg34h 42m602 kg6h 42m
Birmingham1,782 km64.0 kg27h 48m448 kg5h 54m
Bristol1,659 km64.6 kg27h 54m417 kg5h 42m
Brussels1,820 km53.7 kg26h 54m458 kg5h 54m
Cardiff1,651 km67.9 kg28h 30m415 kg5h 42m
Copenhagen2,583 km76.2 kg37h 18m650 kg6h 54m
Dublin1,819 km——457 kg5h 54m
Edinburgh2,135 km93.8 kg32h 54m537 kg6h 18m
Frankfurt1,969 km58.1 kg28h 54m495 kg6h 6m
Glasgow2,114 km95.5 kg33h 12m532 kg6h 18m
Leeds1,929 km72.7 kg29h 18m485 kg6h 6m
Lisbon218 km6.4 kg5h54.8 kg3h 48m
Liverpool1,862 km73.9 kg29h 30m468 kg6h
London1,724 km50.9 kg25h 36m434 kg5h 48m
Madrid526 km15.5 kg9h 12m132 kg4h 12m
Manchester1,882 km71.9 kg29h 12m474 kg6h
Milan1,706 km50.4 kg25h 18m429 kg5h 48m
Munich2,010 km59.3 kg29h 30m506 kg6h 12m
Newcastle2,053 km82.9 kg31h516 kg6h 12m
Nottingham1,848 km65.0 kg28h465 kg6h
Oslo2,871 km84.7 kg41h 18m722 kg7h 18m
Paris1,556 km45.9 kg23h 18m391 kg5h 36m
Prague2,299 km67.8 kg33h 30m578 kg6h 36m
Rome1,831 km54.0 kg27h 6m461 kg5h 54m
Sheffield1,887 km69.2 kg28h 42m475 kg6h
Southampton1,628 km59.8 kg27h 6m410 kg5h 42m
Stockholm3,100 km91.5 kg44h 24m780 kg7h 36m
Vienna2,330 km68.8 kg33h 54m586 kg6h 36m
Warsaw2,816 km83.1 kg40h 30m708 kg7h 18m
Zurich1,773 km52.3 kg26h 18m446 kg5h 54m

The year in Faro

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C13.513.915.218.219.922.725.626.922.120.216.813.4
Sun h/day8.38.99.612.212.613.113.512.810.99.18.48.1
Rain mm/day1.51.42.70.40.60.60.00.00.75.01.70.8

When to go

Faro is warmest in August at 26.9 °C but brightest in July, averaging 13.5 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is December at 13.4 °C.

Staying there

A hotel room in Portugal emits about 19 kg CO₂e per night under UK Government 2026 factors, so a week adds roughly 133 kg — about 20.8× the carbon of getting there by rail from Lisbon.

How busy it gets

Algarve records 46.6 overnight stays per resident a year (22,941,654 nights in 2025). That is heavy tourist pressure — among the densest in Europe.

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 Faro

Places to stay in Faro, Portugal, 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.