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Germany · 49.45°, 11.08° · 300 m

Nuremberg

Reaching Nuremberg from Munich emits 4.5 kg CO₂e return by rail (4h 6m each way) against 38.0 kg by air — 8× the carbon. It averages 20.2 °C in August and 2.3 °C in January.

4.5kg CO₂e return by rail, from Munich
207kg CO₂e return by air, from London
12.3hours of sunshine a day in June, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Nuremberg
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Amsterdam542 km16.0 kg9h 24m136 kg4h 12m
Barcelona1,134 km33.5 kg17h 30m285 kg5h
Berlin378 km11.2 kg7h 12m95.2 kg4h
Birmingham967 km37.4 kg15h 30m243 kg4h 48m
Bristol992 km38.1 kg15h 36m249 kg4h 48m
Brussels504 km14.9 kg8h 54m127 kg4h 12m
Cardiff1,032 km41.3 kg16h 12m260 kg4h 54m
Copenhagen699 km20.6 kg11h 36m176 kg4h 24m
Dublin1,273 km320 kg5h 12m
Edinburgh1,199 km67.2 kg20h 36m302 kg5h 6m
Frankfurt187 km5.5 kg4h 36m47.0 kg3h 42m
Glasgow1,252 km69.0 kg20h 54m315 kg5h 12m
Leeds994 km46.2 kg17h250 kg4h 48m
Lisbon1,998 km59.0 kg29h 18m503 kg6h 12m
Liverpool1,067 km47.3 kg17h 12m268 kg4h 54m
London824 km24.3 kg13h 18m207 kg4h 36m
Madrid1,532 km45.2 kg23h386 kg5h 30m
Manchester1,023 km45.4 kg16h 54m257 kg4h 54m
Milan466 km13.7 kg8h 24m117 kg4h 6m
Munich151 km4.5 kg4h 6m38.0 kg3h 42m
Newcastle1,058 km56.3 kg18h 42m266 kg4h 54m
Nottingham935 km38.4 kg15h 42m235 kg4h 42m
Oslo1,163 km34.3 kg17h 54m293 kg5h 6m
Paris638 km18.8 kg10h 42m161 kg4h 24m
Prague250 km7.4 kg5h 24m62.9 kg3h 48m
Rome848 km25.0 kg13h 36m213 kg4h 36m
Sheffield972 km42.6 kg16h 24m244 kg4h 48m
Southampton902 km33.3 kg14h 48m227 kg4h 42m
Stockholm1,186 km35.0 kg18h 12m298 kg5h 6m
Vienna411 km12.1 kg7h 36m104 kg4h
Warsaw762 km22.5 kg12h 24m192 kg4h 30m
Zurich298 km8.8 kg6h 6m74.9 kg3h 54m

The year in Nuremberg

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C2.34.57.09.014.718.920.120.216.711.95.12.5
Sun h/day3.34.37.18.310.112.312.110.69.66.23.93.0
Rain mm/day2.02.82.41.92.51.92.63.82.32.33.32.6

When to go

Nuremberg is warmest in August at 20.2 °C but brightest in June, averaging 12.3 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 2.3 °C.

Staying there

A hotel room in Germany emits about 13.2 kg CO₂e per night under UK Government 2026 factors, so a week adds roughly 92 kg — about 20.5× the carbon of getting there by rail from Munich.

How busy it gets

Nürnberg, Kreisfreie Stadt records 7.3 overnight stays per resident a year (3,855,241 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 Nuremberg

Places to stay in Nuremberg, Germany, 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.