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France · 42.70°, 2.90° · 43 m

Perpignan

Reaching Perpignan from Barcelona emits 4.7 kg CO₂e return by rail (4h 12m each way) against 39.7 kg by air — 8× the carbon. It averages 25.9 °C in August and 8.7 °C in January.

4.7kg CO₂e return by rail, from Barcelona
253kg CO₂e return by air, from London
13.1hours of sunshine a day in July, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Perpignan
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Amsterdam1,086 km32.1 kg16h 54m273 kg4h 54m
Barcelona158 km4.7 kg4h 12m39.7 kg3h 42m
Berlin1,344 km39.7 kg20h 24m338 kg5h 18m
Birmingham1,145 km42.8 kg18h288 kg5h
Bristol1,058 km43.4 kg18h 6m266 kg4h 54m
Brussels913 km26.9 kg14h 30m230 kg4h 42m
Cardiff1,079 km46.7 kg18h 42m271 kg4h 54m
Copenhagen1,602 km47.3 kg23h 54m403 kg5h 36m
Dublin1,362 km343 kg5h 18m
Edinburgh1,537 km72.6 kg23h 6m387 kg5h 30m
Frankfurt936 km27.6 kg14h 48m235 kg4h 42m
Glasgow1,551 km74.3 kg23h 24m390 kg5h 36m
Leeds1,277 km51.5 kg19h 30m321 kg5h 12m
Lisbon1,106 km32.6 kg17h 6m278 kg5h
Liverpool1,268 km52.7 kg19h 42m319 kg5h 12m
London1,006 km29.7 kg15h 48m253 kg4h 48m
Madrid605 km17.8 kg10h 18m152 kg4h 18m
Manchester1,257 km50.7 kg19h 18m316 kg5h 12m
Milan589 km17.4 kg10h 6m148 kg4h 18m
Munich907 km26.8 kg14h 24m228 kg4h 42m
Newcastle1,404 km61.7 kg21h 12m353 kg5h 24m
Nottingham1,179 km43.8 kg18h 12m297 kg5h 6m
Oslo1,987 km58.6 kg29h 12m500 kg6h 6m
Paris686 km20.2 kg11h 24m173 kg4h 24m
Prague1,204 km35.5 kg18h 30m303 kg5h 6m
Rome796 km23.5 kg12h 54m200 kg4h 36m
Sheffield1,231 km48.0 kg18h 54m310 kg5h 6m
Southampton969 km38.6 kg17h 18m244 kg4h 48m
Stockholm2,121 km62.6 kg31h534 kg6h 18m
Vienna1,214 km35.8 kg18h 36m305 kg5h 6m
Warsaw1,718 km50.7 kg25h 30m432 kg5h 48m
Zurich683 km20.2 kg11h 18m172 kg4h 24m

The year in Perpignan

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C8.710.413.015.217.923.225.725.921.318.713.29.9
Sun h/day6.87.99.410.411.312.313.112.210.17.97.66.2
Rain mm/day0.81.51.01.31.61.00.30.61.11.21.41.2

When to go

Perpignan is warmest in August at 25.9 °C but brightest in July, averaging 13.1 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 8.7 °C.

Staying there

A hotel room in France emits about 6.7 kg CO₂e per night under UK Government 2026 factors, so a week adds roughly 47 kg — about 10.0× the carbon of getting there by rail from Barcelona.

How busy it gets

Pyrénées-Orientales records 22.6 overnight stays per resident a year (11,415,243 nights in 2025). 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 Perpignan

Places to stay in Perpignan, 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.