Belgium · 51.03°, 5.37° · 64 m

Houthalen

Name: Houthalen
Address: Houthalen, BE

Houthalen, Belgium — Photo: Sonuwe, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Reaching Houthalen from London emits 11.4 kg CO₂e return by rail (5h 48m each way) against 97.1 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 18.8 °C in August and 3.9 °C in January.

When to go: Houthalen is warmest in August (18.8 °C), sunniest in June (11.9 h a day), driest in September; coldest in January (3.9 °C). Month by month

11.4kg CO₂e return by rail, from London

97.1kg CO₂e return by air, from London

11.9hours of sunshine a day in June, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and one-way journey time to Houthalen. Times are modelled.
From	Distance	By rail	Rail time	By air	Air time
Amsterdam	153 km	4.5 kg	4h 12m	38.4 kg	3h 42m
Barcelona	1,100 km	32.5 kg	12h 42m	277 kg	5h
Berlin	577 km	17.0 kg	8h 30m	145 kg	4h 18m
Birmingham	526 km	24.5 kg	8h 36m	132 kg	4h 12m
Bristol	557 km	25.2 kg	8h 48m	140 kg	4h 12m
Cardiff	597 km	28.4 kg	9h 6m	150 kg	4h 18m
Copenhagen	702 km	20.7 kg	12h 6m	177 kg	4h 24m
Dublin	832 km	—	—	209 kg	4h 36m
Edinburgh	787 km	54.3 kg	11h 36m	198 kg	4h 30m
Frankfurt	255 km	7.5 kg	5h 18m	64.2 kg	3h 48m
Glasgow	833 km	56.1 kg	11h 42m	209 kg	4h 36m
Leeds	561 km	33.3 kg	9h 24m	141 kg	4h 12m
Lisbon	1,777 km	52.5 kg	27h 42m	447 kg	5h 54m
Liverpool	627 km	34.4 kg	9h 24m	158 kg	4h 18m
London	386 km	11.4 kg	5h 48m	97.1 kg	4h
Madrid	1,373 km	40.5 kg	16h 18m	345 kg	5h 18m
Manchester	585 km	32.4 kg	9h 18m	147 kg	4h 18m
Milan	681 km	20.1 kg	11h 48m	171 kg	4h 24m
Munich	551 km	16.3 kg	9h 42m	139 kg	4h 12m
Newcastle	640 km	43.4 kg	10h 6m	161 kg	4h 24m
Nottingham	495 km	25.5 kg	8h 54m	125 kg	4h 12m
Oslo	1,043 km	30.8 kg	17h 6m	262 kg	4h 54m
Paris	325 km	9.6 kg	4h 36m	81.8 kg	3h 54m
Prague	647 km	19.1 kg	11h 24m	163 kg	4h 24m
Rome	1,153 km	34.0 kg	15h 18m	290 kg	5h
Sheffield	534 km	29.7 kg	9h 12m	134 kg	4h 12m
Southampton	475 km	20.4 kg	8h 30m	119 kg	4h 6m
Stockholm	1,221 km	36.0 kg	17h 24m	307 kg	5h 6m
Vienna	851 km	25.1 kg	14h 18m	214 kg	4h 36m
Warsaw	1,085 km	32.0 kg	16h	273 kg	4h 54m
Zurich	468 km	13.8 kg	8h 42m	118 kg	4h 6m

The year in Houthalen

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	3.9	6.4	7.9	9.6	14.2	18.2	18.5	18.8	17.0	12.9	7.1	5.7
Sun h/day	3.6	4.0	6.1	8.3	10.5	11.9	11.2	10.3	9.5	6.1	3.5	2.4
Rain mm/day	3.0	2.5	3.6	2.8	4.3	2.3	4.3	2.9	2.2	3.5	3.6	3.0

When to go

Houthalen is warmest in August at 18.8 °C but brightest in June, averaging 11.9 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 3.9 °C.

Three months worth booking

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

warmestAugust18.8 °C · 10.3 h sun · 2.9 mm rainSee rooms in August →sunniestJune18.2 °C · 11.9 h sun · 2.3 mm rainSee rooms in June →driestSeptember17.0 °C · 9.5 h sun · 2.2 mm rainSee rooms in September →

Staying there

A hotel room in Belgium emits about 12.2 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 85 kg — about 19.0× the carbon of one person getting there by rail from Amsterdam. Two sharing the room halve that share each; the journey does not halve.

How busy it gets

Arr. Maaseik records 12.4 overnight stays per resident a year (3,251,389 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 Houthalen

Places to stay in Houthalen, Belgium, 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.