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Denmark · 54.91°, 9.79° · 15 m

Sønderborg

Reaching Sønderborg from Copenhagen emits 5.8 kg CO₂e return by rail (4h 42m each way) against 49.1 kg by air — 8× the carbon. It averages 17.4 °C in August and 3.3 °C in January.

5.8kg CO₂e return by rail, from Copenhagen
191kg CO₂e return by air, from London
13.6hours of sunshine a day in June, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Sønderborg
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Amsterdam429 km12.6 kg7h 54m108 kg4h 6m
Barcelona1,604 km47.3 kg24h404 kg5h 36m
Berlin356 km10.5 kg6h 54m89.6 kg4h
Birmingham814 km35.5 kg14h 36m205 kg4h 36m
Bristol909 km36.2 kg14h 42m229 kg4h 42m
Brussels580 km17.1 kg9h 54m146 kg4h 18m
Cardiff943 km39.4 kg15h 18m237 kg4h 48m
Copenhagen195 km5.8 kg4h 42m49.1 kg3h 48m
Dublin1,057 km266 kg4h 54m
Edinburgh826 km65.3 kg19h 42m208 kg4h 36m
Frankfurt538 km15.9 kg9h 24m135 kg4h 12m
Glasgow892 km67.1 kg20h224 kg4h 42m
Leeds744 km44.3 kg16h 6m187 kg4h 30m
Lisbon2,290 km67.6 kg33h 18m576 kg6h 36m
Liverpool847 km45.5 kg16h 18m213 kg4h 36m
London760 km22.4 kg12h 24m191 kg4h 30m
Madrid1,895 km55.9 kg27h 54m477 kg6h
Manchester797 km43.5 kg16h201 kg4h 36m
Milan1,051 km31.0 kg16h 24m264 kg4h 54m
Munich763 km22.5 kg12h 24m192 kg4h 30m
Newcastle728 km54.4 kg17h 48m183 kg4h 30m
Nottingham748 km36.5 kg14h 48m188 kg4h 30m
Oslo559 km16.5 kg9h 42m141 kg4h 12m
Paris844 km24.9 kg13h 36m212 kg4h 36m
Prague621 km18.3 kg10h 30m156 kg4h 18m
Rome1,461 km43.1 kg22h368 kg5h 24m
Sheffield752 km40.7 kg15h 30m189 kg4h 30m
Southampton871 km31.4 kg13h 54m219 kg4h 42m
Stockholm700 km20.7 kg11h 36m176 kg4h 24m
Vienna872 km25.7 kg13h 54m219 kg4h 42m
Warsaw798 km23.5 kg12h 54m201 kg4h 36m
Zurich843 km24.9 kg13h 30m212 kg4h 36m

The year in Sønderborg

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C3.34.75.47.713.016.216.817.416.511.46.14.7
Sun h/day3.74.36.59.612.613.612.310.69.75.12.91.6
Rain mm/day3.02.71.93.42.22.03.83.21.63.02.92.6

When to go

Sønderborg is warmest in August at 17.4 °C but brightest in June, averaging 13.6 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 3.3 °C.

How busy it gets

Sydjylland records 10.7 overnight stays per resident a year (7,848,538 nights in 2024). 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 Sønderborg

Places to stay in Sønderborg, Denmark, 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.