The Netherlands · 53.22°, 6.57° · 16 m

Groningen

Reaching Groningen from London emits 14.6 kg CO₂e return by rail (8h 42m each way) against 124 kg by air — 8× the carbon. It averages 17.7 °C in August and 4.3 °C in January.

Groningen is a lively student city in the Northern Netherlands. — Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0

When to go: Groningen is warmest in August (17.7 °C), sunniest in June (12.4 h a day), driest in September; coldest in January (4.3 °C). Month by month

14.6kg CO₂e return by rail, from London

124kg CO₂e return by air, from London

12.4hours of sunshine a day in June, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and one-way journey time to Groningen. Times are modelled.
From	Distance	By rail	Rail time	By air	Air time
Barcelona	1,356 km	40.0 kg	15h 36m	341 kg	5h 18m
Berlin	466 km	13.7 kg	7h 42m	117 kg	4h 6m
Birmingham	574 km	27.6 kg	11h 30m	144 kg	4h 18m
Bristol	652 km	28.3 kg	11h 42m	164 kg	4h 24m
Brussels	304 km	9.0 kg	6h 6m	76.4 kg	3h 54m
Cardiff	689 km	31.5 kg	12h	173 kg	4h 24m
Copenhagen	474 km	14.0 kg	8h 48m	119 kg	4h 6m
Dublin	851 km	—	—	214 kg	4h 36m
Edinburgh	698 km	57.4 kg	14h 30m	176 kg	4h 24m
Frankfurt	375 km	11.1 kg	7h 24m	94.2 kg	4h
Glasgow	757 km	59.2 kg	14h 36m	190 kg	4h 30m
Leeds	540 km	36.4 kg	12h 18m	136 kg	4h 12m
Lisbon	2,009 km	59.3 kg	30h 54m	505 kg	6h 12m
Liverpool	634 km	37.6 kg	12h 18m	159 kg	4h 18m
London	492 km	14.6 kg	8h 42m	124 kg	4h 12m
Madrid	1,620 km	47.8 kg	19h 12m	408 kg	5h 42m
Manchester	585 km	35.6 kg	12h 12m	147 kg	4h 18m
Milan	883 km	26.1 kg	14h 42m	222 kg	4h 42m
Munich	666 km	19.6 kg	11h 18m	168 kg	4h 24m
Newcastle	568 km	46.5 kg	13h	143 kg	4h 18m
Nottingham	516 km	28.6 kg	11h 48m	130 kg	4h 12m
Oslo	787 km	23.2 kg	13h 24m	198 kg	4h 30m
Paris	568 km	16.8 kg	7h 30m	143 kg	4h 18m
Prague	644 km	19.0 kg	11h 18m	162 kg	4h 24m
Rome	1,335 km	39.4 kg	18h 12m	336 kg	5h 18m
Sheffield	534 km	32.8 kg	12h 6m	134 kg	4h 12m
Southampton	602 km	23.5 kg	11h 24m	152 kg	4h 18m
Stockholm	980 km	28.9 kg	14h 12m	247 kg	4h 48m
Vienna	886 km	26.1 kg	14h 48m	223 kg	4h 42m
Warsaw	977 km	28.8 kg	15h 12m	246 kg	4h 48m
Zurich	666 km	19.6 kg	11h 36m	168 kg	4h 24m

The year in Groningen

Average temperature, °C — warmest in August

Sunshine, hours a day — brightest in June

Historical daily means for 2023–2024, by month (ERA5 reanalysis) — averaged across day and night
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Temp °C	4.3	6.3	7.0	8.8	13.7	16.2	17.4	17.7	16.5	12.1	6.9	5.9
Sun h/day	3.9	4.0	5.7	9.0	11.1	12.4	11.2	10.9	9.5	5.5	3.5	1.9
Rain mm/day	3.0	2.8	2.8	2.9	2.4	2.3	4.8	3.0	2.1	3.8	3.8	3.2

When to go

Groningen is warmest in August at 17.7 °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.

Three months worth booking

The same year of measurements, decided rather than tabulated. Each opens the map below on dates in that month.

warmestAugust17.7 °C · 10.9 h sun · 3.0 mm rainSee rooms in August →sunniestJune16.2 °C · 12.4 h sun · 2.3 mm rainSee rooms in June →driestSeptember16.5 °C · 9.5 h sun · 2.1 mm rainSee rooms in September →

Staying there

A hotel room in The Netherlands emits about 14.8 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 104 kg — about 11.5× the carbon of one person getting there by rail from Brussels. Two sharing the room halve that share each; the journey does not halve.

How busy it gets

Overig Groningen records 3.2 overnight stays per resident a year (1,327,387 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 Groningen

Places to stay in Groningen, The Netherlands, 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.