Heide
Reaching Heide from London emits 20.3 kg CO₂e return by rail (12h 6m each way) against 173 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 17.6 °C in August and 3.6 °C in January.
Heide is in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, with 21,844 inhabitants as of 2021. — Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0
When to go: Heide is warmest in August (17.6 °C), sunniest in June (13.2 h a day), driest in September; coldest in January (3.6 °C). Month by month
Getting there
| From | Distance | By rail | Rail time | By air | Air time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | 345 km | 10.2 kg | 7h | 86.8 kg | 4h |
| Barcelona | 1,514 km | 44.7 kg | 19h | 381 kg | 5h 30m |
| Berlin | 341 km | 10.1 kg | 5h 12m | 85.8 kg | 4h |
| Birmingham | 754 km | 33.4 kg | 14h 48m | 190 kg | 4h 30m |
| Bristol | 841 km | 34.0 kg | 15h 6m | 212 kg | 4h 36m |
| Brussels | 491 km | 14.5 kg | 9h 6m | 124 kg | 4h 12m |
| Cardiff | 877 km | 37.3 kg | 15h 24m | 221 kg | 4h 42m |
| Copenhagen | 276 km | 8.1 kg | 6h | 69.4 kg | 3h 54m |
| Dublin | 1,011 km | — | — | 254 kg | 4h 48m |
| Edinburgh | 805 km | 63.2 kg | 17h 48m | 203 kg | 4h 36m |
| Frankfurt | 455 km | 13.4 kg | 7h | 114 kg | 4h 6m |
| Glasgow | 870 km | 64.9 kg | 18h | 219 kg | 4h 42m |
| Leeds | 697 km | 42.1 kg | 15h 42m | 175 kg | 4h 24m |
| Lisbon | 2,203 km | 65.0 kg | 33h 42m | 554 kg | 6h 24m |
| Liverpool | 797 km | 43.3 kg | 15h 42m | 200 kg | 4h 36m |
| London | 687 km | 20.3 kg | 12h 6m | 173 kg | 4h 24m |
| Madrid | 1,805 km | 53.3 kg | 22h 36m | 454 kg | 5h 54m |
| Manchester | 747 km | 41.3 kg | 15h 36m | 188 kg | 4h 30m |
| Milan | 971 km | 28.7 kg | 16h | 244 kg | 4h 48m |
| Munich | 695 km | 20.5 kg | 10h 6m | 175 kg | 4h 24m |
| Newcastle | 695 km | 52.3 kg | 16h 18m | 175 kg | 4h 24m |
| Nottingham | 690 km | 34.4 kg | 15h 12m | 174 kg | 4h 24m |
| Oslo | 643 km | 19.0 kg | 11h 18m | 162 kg | 4h 24m |
| Paris | 755 km | 22.3 kg | 10h 54m | 190 kg | 4h 30m |
| Prague | 583 km | 17.2 kg | 10h 24m | 147 kg | 4h 18m |
| Rome | 1,391 km | 41.0 kg | 19h 30m | 350 kg | 5h 24m |
| Sheffield | 699 km | 38.6 kg | 15h 30m | 176 kg | 4h 24m |
| Southampton | 798 km | 29.2 kg | 14h 48m | 201 kg | 4h 36m |
| Stockholm | 789 km | 23.3 kg | 11h 18m | 199 kg | 4h 36m |
| Vienna | 836 km | 24.7 kg | 14h 6m | 210 kg | 4h 36m |
| Warsaw | 822 km | 24.3 kg | 12h 42m | 207 kg | 4h 36m |
| Zurich | 760 km | 22.4 kg | 13h | 191 kg | 4h 30m |
The year in Heide
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temp °C | 3.6 | 5.0 | 6.2 | 8.2 | 13.7 | 16.2 | 17.1 | 17.6 | 16.5 | 11.3 | 6.0 | 4.7 |
| Sun h/day | 3.5 | 3.8 | 6.6 | 9.2 | 11.8 | 13.2 | 12.0 | 11.1 | 9.9 | 5.3 | 3.2 | 1.7 |
| Rain mm/day | 4.1 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
| Sea °C | 4.7 | 4.7 | 6.0 | 9.2 | 13.2 | 16.3 | 18.6 | 19.3 | 17.9 | 13.1 | 8.9 | 4.9 |
When to go
Heide is warmest in August at 17.6 °C but brightest in June, 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 3.6 °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 Germany emits about 13.2 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 92 kg — about 11.4× the carbon of one person getting there by rail from Copenhagen. Two sharing the room halve that share each; the journey does not halve.
How busy it gets
Dithmarschen records 15.1 overnight stays per resident a year (2,011,217 nights in 2024). A well-visited region, busy in season but not overwhelmed.
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 Heide
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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.