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Italy · 40.64°, 15.81° · 760 m

Potenza

Reaching Potenza from Rome emits 9.1 kg CO₂e return by rail (6h 12m each way) against 77.6 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 24.9 °C in July and 5.1 °C in January.

9.1kg CO₂e return by rail, from Rome
432kg CO₂e return by air, from London
13.7hours of sunshine a day in July, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Potenza
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Amsterdam1,545 km45.6 kg23h 6m389 kg5h 36m
Barcelona1,147 km33.8 kg17h 42m289 kg5h
Berlin1,334 km39.4 kg20h 18m336 kg5h 18m
Birmingham1,879 km63.7 kg27h 42m473 kg6h
Bristol1,852 km64.4 kg27h 48m466 kg6h
Brussels1,438 km42.4 kg21h 42m362 kg5h 24m
Cardiff1,887 km67.6 kg28h 24m475 kg6h
Copenhagen1,688 km49.8 kg25h 6m425 kg5h 48m
Dublin2,173 km547 kg6h 24m
Edinburgh2,193 km93.6 kg32h 48m552 kg6h 24m
Frankfurt1,190 km35.1 kg18h 18m299 kg5h 6m
Glasgow2,236 km95.3 kg33h 6m562 kg6h 30m
Leeds1,954 km72.5 kg29h 12m491 kg6h 6m
Lisbon2,139 km63.1 kg31h 18m538 kg6h 24m
Liverpool1,999 km73.7 kg29h 24m503 kg6h 12m
London1,717 km50.7 kg25h 30m432 kg5h 48m
Madrid1,646 km48.6 kg24h 30m414 kg5h 42m
Manchester1,966 km71.7 kg29h 6m494 kg6h 6m
Milan759 km22.4 kg12h 24m191 kg4h 30m
Munich898 km26.5 kg14h 18m226 kg4h 42m
Newcastle2,045 km82.6 kg30h 54m515 kg6h 12m
Nottingham1,872 km64.7 kg27h 54m471 kg6h
Oslo2,171 km64.1 kg31h 42m546 kg6h 24m
Paris1,398 km41.2 kg21h 6m352 kg5h 24m
Prague1,056 km31.2 kg16h 24m266 kg4h 54m
Rome309 km9.1 kg6h 12m77.6 kg3h 54m
Sheffield1,919 km68.9 kg28h 36m483 kg6h 6m
Southampton1,749 km59.6 kg27h440 kg5h 48m
Stockholm2,084 km61.5 kg30h 30m524 kg6h 18m
Vienna843 km24.9 kg13h 30m212 kg4h 36m
Warsaw1,348 km39.8 kg20h 24m339 kg5h 18m
Zurich946 km27.9 kg14h 54m238 kg4h 48m

The year in Potenza

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C5.15.77.910.114.320.324.923.318.916.39.66.1
Sun h/day5.67.69.79.810.312.613.713.010.88.97.06.6
Rain mm/day3.42.62.33.04.51.60.50.71.51.82.22.1

When to go

Potenza is warmest in July at 24.9 °C, and that is also its brightest month. Its coldest is January at 5.1 °C.

Staying there

A hotel room in Italy emits about 14.3 kg CO₂e per night under UK Government 2026 factors, so a week adds roughly 100 kg — about 11.0× the carbon of getting there by rail from Rome.

How busy it gets

Potenza records 2.2 overnight stays per resident a year (744,095 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 Potenza

Places to stay in Potenza, Italy, 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.