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France · 45.18°, 5.71° · 225 m

Grenoble

Reaching Grenoble from Milan emits 8.1 kg CO₂e return by rail (5h 42m each way) against 68.8 kg by air — 8× the carbon. It averages 23.5 °C in August and 5.1 °C in January.

8.1kg CO₂e return by rail, from Milan
208kg CO₂e return by air, from London
13.2hours of sunshine a day in July, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Grenoble
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Amsterdam802 km23.7 kg13h202 kg4h 36m
Barcelona510 km15.1 kg9h128 kg4h 12m
Berlin991 km29.2 kg15h 36m249 kg4h 48m
Birmingham984 km37.4 kg15h 30m247 kg4h 48m
Bristol929 km38.1 kg15h 36m234 kg4h 42m
Brussels639 km18.9 kg10h 42m161 kg4h 24m
Cardiff960 km41.3 kg16h 12m241 kg4h 48m
Copenhagen1,263 km37.3 kg19h 18m318 kg5h 12m
Dublin1,252 km315 kg5h 12m
Edinburgh1,351 km67.3 kg20h 36m340 kg5h 18m
Frankfurt592 km17.5 kg10h 6m149 kg4h 18m
Glasgow1,379 km69.0 kg20h 54m347 kg5h 18m
Leeds1,091 km46.2 kg17h274 kg5h
Lisbon1,420 km41.9 kg21h 24m357 kg5h 24m
Liverpool1,110 km47.4 kg17h 12m279 kg5h
London825 km24.4 kg13h 18m208 kg4h 36m
Madrid932 km27.5 kg14h 48m235 kg4h 42m
Manchester1,087 km45.4 kg16h 54m273 kg4h 54m
Milan273 km8.1 kg5h 42m68.8 kg3h 54m
Munich555 km16.4 kg9h 36m140 kg4h 12m
Newcastle1,207 km56.3 kg18h 42m304 kg5h 6m
Nottingham998 km38.4 kg15h 42m251 kg4h 48m
Oslo1,672 km49.3 kg24h 54m421 kg5h 42m
Paris482 km14.2 kg8h 36m121 kg4h 6m
Prague850 km25.1 kg13h 36m214 kg4h 36m
Rome658 km19.4 kg11h166 kg4h 24m
Sheffield1,049 km42.6 kg16h 24m264 kg4h 54m
Southampton827 km33.3 kg14h 48m208 kg4h 36m
Stockholm1,778 km52.5 kg26h 18m447 kg5h 54m
Vienna879 km25.9 kg14h221 kg4h 42m
Warsaw1,365 km40.3 kg20h 42m343 kg5h 18m
Zurich327 km9.6 kg6h 30m82.1 kg3h 54m

The year in Grenoble

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C5.17.510.211.815.720.823.223.518.716.29.05.1
Sun h/day4.97.37.78.69.211.813.211.49.47.65.65.0
Rain mm/day4.32.15.74.05.04.53.22.65.95.65.86.8

When to go

Grenoble is warmest in August at 23.5 °C but brightest in July, averaging 13.2 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 5.1 °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 5.8× the carbon of getting there by rail from Milan.

How busy it gets

Isère records 4.5 overnight stays per resident a year (5,885,840 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 Grenoble

Places to stay in Grenoble, 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.