France · 47.28°, -2.22° · 12 m

Saint-Nazaire

Name: Saint-Nazaire
Address: Saint-Nazaire, FR

Reaching Saint-Nazaire from Paris emits 11.3 kg CO₂e return by rail (7h 12m each way) against 96.1 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 19.2 °C in August and 7.1 °C in January.

11.3kg CO₂e return by rail, from Paris

124kg CO₂e return by air, from London

12.6hours of sunshine a day in June, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Saint-Nazaire
From	Distance	By rail	Rail time	By air	Air time
Amsterdam	762 km	22.5 kg	12h 24m	192 kg	4h 30m
Barcelona	741 km	21.9 kg	12h 6m	186 kg	4h 30m
Berlin	1,259 km	37.1 kg	19h 12m	317 kg	5h 12m
Birmingham	579 km	27.7 kg	11h	146 kg	4h 18m
Bristol	466 km	28.3 kg	11h 6m	117 kg	4h 6m
Brussels	622 km	18.3 kg	10h 30m	156 kg	4h 18m
Cardiff	473 km	31.6 kg	11h 42m	119 kg	4h 6m
Copenhagen	1,381 km	40.7 kg	20h 54m	347 kg	5h 18m
Dublin	732 km	—	—	184 kg	4h 30m
Edinburgh	967 km	57.5 kg	16h 6m	243 kg	4h 48m
Frankfurt	859 km	25.4 kg	13h 48m	216 kg	4h 36m
Glasgow	965 km	59.2 kg	16h 24m	243 kg	4h 48m
Leeds	727 km	36.4 kg	12h 30m	183 kg	4h 30m
Lisbon	1,104 km	32.6 kg	17h 6m	278 kg	5h
Liverpool	684 km	37.6 kg	12h 42m	172 kg	4h 24m
London	494 km	14.6 kg	8h 48m	124 kg	4h 12m
Madrid	772 km	22.8 kg	12h 36m	194 kg	4h 30m
Manchester	690 km	35.6 kg	12h 18m	174 kg	4h 24m
Milan	897 km	26.5 kg	14h 18m	226 kg	4h 42m
Munich	1,035 km	30.5 kg	16h 12m	260 kg	4h 54m
Newcastle	857 km	46.6 kg	14h 12m	216 kg	4h 36m
Nottingham	636 km	28.7 kg	11h 12m	160 kg	4h 18m
Oslo	1,639 km	48.4 kg	24h 24m	412 kg	5h 42m
Paris	382 km	11.3 kg	7h 12m	96.1 kg	4h
Prague	1,258 km	37.1 kg	19h 12m	316 kg	5h 12m
Rome	1,308 km	38.6 kg	19h 54m	329 kg	5h 12m
Sheffield	681 km	32.9 kg	11h 54m	171 kg	4h 24m
Southampton	408 km	23.5 kg	10h 18m	103 kg	4h
Stockholm	1,886 km	55.7 kg	27h 48m	475 kg	6h
Vienna	1,391 km	41.0 kg	21h	350 kg	5h 24m
Warsaw	1,749 km	51.6 kg	25h 54m	440 kg	5h 48m
Zurich	811 km	23.9 kg	13h 6m	204 kg	4h 36m

The year in Saint-Nazaire

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Temp °C	7.1	8.5	9.7	11.4	15.0	18.6	18.5	19.2	17.7	15.0	11.1	9.0
Sun h/day	5.1	5.2	7.3	8.9	11.1	12.6	11.2	11.3	9.3	6.8	4.9	4.5
Rain mm/day	3.1	2.4	4.5	2.6	2.6	2.1	2.7	1.8	3.4	5.1	3.5	2.5

When to go

Saint-Nazaire is warmest in August at 19.2 °C but brightest in June, 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 7.1 °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 4.2× the carbon of getting there by rail from Paris.

How busy it gets

Loire-Atlantique records 5.5 overnight stays per resident a year (8,335,347 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 Saint-Nazaire

Places to stay in Saint-Nazaire, 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.