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The Netherlands · 51.84°, 5.85° · 25 m

Nijmegen

Reaching Nijmegen from Brussels emits 4.5 kg CO₂e return by rail (4h 6m each way) against 38.2 kg by air — 8× the carbon. It averages 18.8 °C in August and 4.2 °C in January.

4.5kg CO₂e return by rail, from Brussels
104kg CO₂e return by air, from London
12.0hours of sunshine a day in June, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Nijmegen
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Barcelona1,196 km35.3 kg18h 24m301 kg5h 6m
Berlin521 km15.4 kg9h 6m131 kg4h 12m
Birmingham533 km25.3 kg9h 54m134 kg4h 12m
Bristol584 km26.0 kg10h147 kg4h 18m
Brussels152 km4.5 kg4h 6m38.2 kg3h 42m
Cardiff624 km29.2 kg10h 36m157 kg4h 18m
Copenhagen613 km18.1 kg10h 24m154 kg4h 18m
Dublin833 km210 kg4h 36m
Edinburgh748 km55.1 kg15h188 kg4h 30m
Frankfurt276 km8.1 kg5h 48m69.4 kg3h 54m
Glasgow799 km56.9 kg15h 18m201 kg4h 36m
Leeds542 km34.1 kg11h 24m136 kg4h 12m
Lisbon1,865 km55.0 kg27h 30m469 kg6h
Liverpool621 km35.2 kg11h 36m156 kg4h 18m
London414 km12.2 kg7h 42m104 kg4h 6m
Madrid1,466 km43.3 kg22h 6m369 kg5h 30m
Manchester575 km33.3 kg11h 12m145 kg4h 18m
Milan750 km22.1 kg12h 18m189 kg4h 30m
Munich580 km17.1 kg9h 54m146 kg4h 18m
Newcastle605 km44.2 kg13h 6m152 kg4h 18m
Nottingham491 km26.3 kg10h 6m123 kg4h 12m
Oslo947 km28.0 kg15h238 kg4h 48m
Paris415 km12.2 kg7h 42m104 kg4h 6m
Prague630 km18.6 kg10h 36m159 kg4h 18m
Rome1,216 km35.9 kg18h 36m306 kg5h 6m
Sheffield523 km30.5 kg10h 48m132 kg4h 12m
Southampton514 km21.2 kg9h 12m129 kg4h 12m
Stockholm1,129 km33.3 kg17h 24m284 kg5h
Vienna852 km25.1 kg13h 42m214 kg4h 36m
Warsaw1,036 km30.6 kg16h 12m261 kg4h 54m
Zurich534 km15.8 kg9h 18m134 kg4h 12m

The year in Nijmegen

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C4.26.57.89.614.617.918.418.817.212.87.15.8
Sun h/day3.63.96.18.511.012.011.111.09.65.84.12.0
Rain mm/day2.92.83.23.13.52.43.23.02.33.23.13.0

When to go

Nijmegen is warmest in August at 18.8 °C but brightest in June, averaging 12.0 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 4.2 °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 23.0× the carbon of getting there by rail from Brussels.

How busy it gets

Arnhem/Nijmegen records 3.2 overnight stays per resident a year (2,497,371 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 Nijmegen

Places to stay in Nijmegen, 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.