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Portugal · 40.54°, -7.27° · 1008 m

Guarda

Reaching Guarda from Lisbon emits 7.6 kg CO₂e return by rail (5h 30m each way) against 64.9 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 21.6 °C in August and 3.8 °C in December.

7.6kg CO₂e return by rail, from Lisbon
336kg CO₂e return by air, from London
14.0hours of sunshine a day in July, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Guarda
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Amsterdam1,608 km47.4 kg24h404 kg5h 36m
Barcelona797 km23.5 kg12h 54m200 kg4h 36m
Berlin2,055 km60.7 kg30h 6m517 kg6h 12m
Birmingham1,389 km52.5 kg22h 30m349 kg5h 24m
Bristol1,266 km53.2 kg22h 36m318 kg5h 12m
Brussels1,455 km43.0 kg21h 54m366 kg5h 24m
Cardiff1,256 km56.4 kg23h 12m316 kg5h 12m
Copenhagen2,220 km65.5 kg32h 24m559 kg6h 30m
Dublin1,425 km——358 kg5h 24m
Edinburgh1,740 km82.4 kg27h 36m438 kg5h 48m
Frankfurt1,634 km48.2 kg24h 24m411 kg5h 42m
Glasgow1,718 km84.1 kg27h 54m432 kg5h 48m
Leeds1,535 km61.3 kg24h386 kg5h 30m
Lisbon258 km7.6 kg5h 30m64.9 kg3h 48m
Liverpool1,467 km62.5 kg24h 12m369 kg5h 30m
London1,337 km39.5 kg20h 18m336 kg5h 18m
Madrid302 km8.9 kg6h 6m75.9 kg3h 54m
Manchester1,488 km60.5 kg23h 54m374 kg5h 30m
Milan1,443 km42.6 kg21h 42m363 kg5h 24m
Munich1,714 km50.6 kg25h 30m431 kg5h 48m
Newcastle1,659 km71.4 kg25h 42m417 kg5h 42m
Nottingham1,456 km53.5 kg22h 42m366 kg5h 24m
Oslo2,488 km73.4 kg36h 6m626 kg6h 48m
Paris1,195 km35.3 kg18h 24m301 kg5h 6m
Prague1,990 km58.7 kg29h 12m501 kg6h 12m
Rome1,657 km48.9 kg24h 42m417 kg5h 42m
Sheffield1,493 km57.7 kg23h 24m376 kg5h 30m
Southampton1,238 km48.4 kg21h 48m312 kg5h 12m
Stockholm2,733 km80.6 kg39h 24m687 kg7h 6m
Vienna2,052 km60.6 kg30h 6m516 kg6h 12m
Warsaw2,505 km73.9 kg36h 18m630 kg6h 48m
Zurich1,472 km43.4 kg22h 6m370 kg5h 30m

The year in Guarda

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C4.45.07.411.412.816.820.221.615.513.18.83.8
Sun h/day6.48.18.411.211.713.114.013.010.46.77.07.0
Rain mm/day3.31.93.61.11.83.20.10.02.16.43.20.8

When to go

Guarda is warmest in August at 21.6 °C but brightest in July, averaging 14.0 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is December at 3.8 °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 17.5× the carbon of getting there by rail from Lisbon.

How busy it gets

Beiras e Serra da Estrela records 5 overnight stays per resident a year (1,062,254 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 Guarda

Places to stay in Guarda, 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.