France · 47.90°, 1.90° · 115 m

Orléans

Name: Orléans
Address: Orléans, FR

Orléans, France — Photo: Anthony Bourgouin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Reaching Orléans from London emits 12.6 kg CO₂e return by rail (6h 54m each way) against 107 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 20.1 °C in August and 5.0 °C in January.

When to go: Orléans is warmest in August (20.1 °C), sunniest in June (11.7 h a day); coldest in January (5.0 °C). Month by month

12.6kg CO₂e return by rail, from London

107kg CO₂e return by air, from London

11.7hours of sunshine a day in June, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and one-way journey time to Orléans. Times are modelled.
From	Distance	By rail	Rail time	By air	Air time
Amsterdam	541 km	16.0 kg	7h 18m	136 kg	4h 12m
Barcelona	725 km	21.4 kg	10h 42m	182 kg	4h 30m
Berlin	965 km	28.5 kg	12h 42m	243 kg	4h 48m
Birmingham	576 km	25.7 kg	9h 42m	145 kg	4h 18m
Bristol	511 km	26.3 kg	9h 54m	128 kg	4h 12m
Brussels	372 km	11.0 kg	5h 24m	93.7 kg	4h
Cardiff	540 km	29.6 kg	10h 12m	136 kg	4h 12m
Copenhagen	1,131 km	33.4 kg	18h 12m	285 kg	5h
Dublin	833 km	—	—	210 kg	4h 36m
Edinburgh	960 km	55.5 kg	12h 42m	242 kg	4h 48m
Frankfurt	552 km	16.3 kg	7h 36m	139 kg	4h 12m
Glasgow	980 km	57.2 kg	12h 48m	247 kg	4h 48m
Leeds	699 km	34.5 kg	10h 30m	176 kg	4h 24m
Lisbon	1,354 km	40.0 kg	21h 36m	341 kg	5h 18m
Liverpool	702 km	35.6 kg	10h 30m	177 kg	4h 24m
London	427 km	12.6 kg	6h 54m	107 kg	4h 6m
Madrid	944 km	27.9 kg	14h 18m	238 kg	4h 48m
Manchester	685 km	33.6 kg	10h 24m	172 kg	4h 24m
Milan	618 km	18.2 kg	10h 54m	155 kg	4h 18m
Munich	719 km	21.2 kg	9h 42m	181 kg	4h 30m
Newcastle	823 km	44.6 kg	11h 12m	207 kg	4h 36m
Nottingham	602 km	26.7 kg	10h	151 kg	4h 18m
Oslo	1,453 km	42.9 kg	23h	365 kg	5h 24m
Prague	944 km	27.8 kg	15h 36m	237 kg	4h 48m
Rome	1,068 km	31.5 kg	14h 24m	269 kg	4h 54m
Sheffield	654 km	30.9 kg	10h 18m	165 kg	4h 24m
Southampton	411 km	21.5 kg	9h 36m	103 kg	4h
Stockholm	1,650 km	48.7 kg	23h 36m	415 kg	5h 42m
Vienna	1,074 km	31.7 kg	14h 48m	270 kg	4h 54m
Warsaw	1,441 km	42.5 kg	20h 12m	363 kg	5h 24m
Zurich	501 km	14.8 kg	8h 6m	126 kg	4h 12m

The year in Orléans

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	5.0	6.8	8.7	10.6	14.4	18.9	19.9	20.1	17.6	14.1	8.6	6.5
Sun h/day	3.5	4.5	7.0	8.7	10.8	11.7	11.2	10.4	9.1	6.2	4.2	2.8
Rain mm/day	2.1	1.6	2.9	2.2	3.3	3.4	2.3	2.1	3.3	3.7	2.7	1.8

When to go

Orléans is warmest in August at 20.1 °C but brightest in June, averaging 11.7 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 5.0 °C.

Three months worth booking

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

warmestAugust20.1 °C · 10.4 h sun · 2.1 mm rainSee rooms in August →sunniestJune18.9 °C · 11.7 h sun · 3.4 mm rainSee rooms in June →

Staying there

A hotel room in France emits about 6.7 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 47 kg — about 4.3× the carbon of one person getting there by rail from Brussels. Two sharing the room halve that share each; the journey does not halve.

How busy it gets

Loiret records 2.6 overnight stays per resident a year (1,794,749 nights in 2025). 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 Orléans

Places to stay in Orléans, France, 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.