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The Netherlands · 51.50°, 3.61° · 8 m

Middelburg

Reaching Middelburg from London emits 7.7 kg CO₂e return by rail (5h 30m each way) against 65.1 kg by air — 8× the carbon. It averages 18.6 °C in August and 5.4 °C in January.

7.7kg CO₂e return by rail, from London
65.1kg CO₂e return by air, from London
12.9hours of sunshine a day in June, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Middelburg
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Barcelona1,130 km33.3 kg17h 30m284 kg5h
Berlin680 km20.1 kg11h 18m171 kg4h 24m
Birmingham393 km20.7 kg7h 48m98.8 kg4h
Bristol430 km21.4 kg7h 54m108 kg4h 6m
Cardiff470 km24.6 kg8h 24m118 kg4h 6m
Copenhagen750 km22.1 kg12h 18m189 kg4h 30m
Dublin699 km176 kg4h 24m
Edinburgh667 km50.5 kg12h 48m168 kg4h 24m
Frankfurt388 km11.5 kg7h 18m97.6 kg4h
Glasgow709 km52.3 kg13h 6m178 kg4h 24m
Leeds432 km29.5 kg9h 18m109 kg4h 6m
Lisbon1,733 km51.1 kg25h 42m436 kg5h 48m
Liverpool494 km30.7 kg9h 30m124 kg4h 12m
London259 km7.7 kg5h 30m65.1 kg3h 48m
Madrid1,354 km40.0 kg20h 30m341 kg5h 18m
Manchester453 km28.7 kg9h 6m114 kg4h 6m
Milan786 km23.2 kg12h 48m198 kg4h 30m
Munich682 km20.1 kg11h 18m172 kg4h 24m
Newcastle520 km39.6 kg11h131 kg4h 12m
Nottingham362 km21.7 kg7h 54m91.2 kg4h
Oslo1,035 km30.6 kg16h 12m260 kg4h 54m
Paris308 km9.1 kg6h 12m77.4 kg3h 54m
Prague775 km22.9 kg12h 36m195 kg4h 30m
Rome1,264 km37.3 kg19h 18m318 kg5h 12m
Sheffield403 km25.9 kg8h 42m101 kg4h
Southampton356 km16.6 kg7h 6m89.5 kg4h
Stockholm1,256 km37.1 kg19h 12m316 kg5h 12m
Vienna984 km29.0 kg15h 30m247 kg4h 48m
Warsaw1,194 km35.2 kg18h 18m300 kg5h 6m
Zurich582 km17.2 kg10h146 kg4h 18m

The year in Middelburg

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C5.47.08.09.613.416.918.018.617.513.58.67.1
Sun h/day4.14.35.89.211.412.911.111.09.26.23.72.4
Rain mm/day3.22.53.53.13.31.63.53.03.53.34.53.2

When to go

Middelburg is warmest in August at 18.6 °C but brightest in June, averaging 12.9 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 5.4 °C.

Staying there

A hotel room in The Netherlands emits about 14.8 kg CO₂e per night under UK Government 2026 factors, so a week adds roughly 104 kg — about 13.5× the carbon of getting there by rail from London.

How busy it gets

Overig Zeeland records 32.9 overnight stays per resident a year (9,441,570 nights in 2024). That is heavy tourist pressure — among the densest in Europe.

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 Middelburg

Places to stay in Middelburg, 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.