0xCarbon
France · 46.04°, 4.07° · 285 m

Roanne

Reaching Roanne from Paris emits 10.0 kg CO₂e return by rail (6h 36m each way) against 85.2 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 21.8 °C in August and 4.6 °C in January.

10.0kg CO₂e return by rail, from Paris
171kg CO₂e return by air, from London
12.6hours of sunshine a day in July, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Roanne
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Amsterdam707 km20.9 kg11h 42m178 kg4h 24m
Barcelona539 km15.9 kg9h 24m136 kg4h 12m
Berlin988 km29.2 kg15h 30m249 kg4h 48m
Birmingham837 km33.2 kg13h 30m211 kg4h 36m
Bristol775 km33.9 kg13h 42m195 kg4h 30m
Brussels536 km15.8 kg9h 18m135 kg4h 12m
Cardiff805 km37.1 kg14h 12m202 kg4h 36m
Copenhagen1,225 km36.1 kg18h 48m308 kg5h 6m
Dublin1,098 km276 kg5h
Edinburgh1,213 km63.0 kg18h 36m305 kg5h 6m
Frankfurt568 km16.8 kg9h 48m143 kg4h 18m
Glasgow1,237 km64.8 kg18h 54m311 kg5h 6m
Leeds951 km42.0 kg15h239 kg4h 48m
Lisbon1,353 km39.9 kg20h 30m340 kg5h 18m
Liverpool963 km43.1 kg15h 12m242 kg4h 48m
London681 km20.1 kg11h 18m171 kg4h 24m
Madrid886 km26.2 kg14h 6m223 kg4h 42m
Manchester943 km41.2 kg14h 54m237 kg4h 48m
Milan402 km11.9 kg7h 30m101 kg4h
Munich614 km18.1 kg10h 24m155 kg4h 18m
Newcastle1,071 km52.1 kg16h 48m269 kg4h 54m
Nottingham856 km34.2 kg13h 42m215 kg4h 36m
Oslo1,605 km47.3 kg24h404 kg5h 36m
Paris339 km10.0 kg6h 36m85.2 kg4h
Prague890 km26.3 kg14h 12m224 kg4h 42m
Rome817 km24.1 kg13h 12m206 kg4h 36m
Sheffield908 km38.4 kg14h 24m228 kg4h 42m
Southampton675 km29.1 kg12h 48m170 kg4h 24m
Stockholm1,746 km51.5 kg25h 54m439 kg5h 48m
Vienna961 km28.3 kg15h 6m242 kg4h 48m
Warsaw1,407 km41.5 kg21h 18m354 kg5h 24m
Zurich372 km11.0 kg7h 6m93.7 kg4h

The year in Roanne

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C4.66.29.010.514.419.521.121.818.115.18.64.8
Sun h/day3.55.88.08.79.911.812.612.09.68.05.74.3
Rain mm/day1.91.94.22.94.54.42.31.33.53.12.92.5

When to go

Roanne is warmest in August at 21.8 °C but brightest in July, averaging 12.6 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 4.6 °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 4.7× the carbon of getting there by rail from Paris.

How busy it gets

Loire records 1.2 overnight stays per resident a year (931,307 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 Roanne

Places to stay in Roanne, France, on a live map. Prices and availability come from Stay22 and its booking partners.

Affiliate disclosure. A booking made through this map may earn 0xCarbon a commission, at no extra cost to you. It changes nothing above it: the emissions figures come from UK Government conversion factors and are computed before anyone is paid anything.See the method.

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.