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Switzerland · 47.70°, 8.63° · 403 m

Schaffhausen

Reaching Schaffhausen from Munich emits 6.6 kg CO₂e return by rail (5h 6m each way) against 56.5 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 20.4 °C in August and 1.6 °C in January.

6.6kg CO₂e return by rail, from Munich
191kg CO₂e return by air, from London
12.3hours of sunshine a day in July, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and modelled one-way journey time to Schaffhausen
FromDistanceBy railRail timeBy airAir time
Amsterdam585 km17.3 kg10h147 kg4h 18m
Barcelona868 km25.6 kg13h 54m218 kg4h 42m
Berlin635 km18.7 kg10h 42m160 kg4h 18m
Birmingham919 km35.5 kg14h 36m231 kg4h 42m
Bristol910 km36.2 kg14h 42m229 kg4h 42m
Brussels468 km13.8 kg8h 24m118 kg4h 6m
Cardiff948 km39.4 kg15h 18m239 kg4h 48m
Copenhagen927 km27.4 kg14h 42m233 kg4h 42m
Dublin1,221 km307 kg5h 6m
Edinburgh1,223 km65.3 kg19h 42m308 kg5h 6m
Frankfurt269 km7.9 kg5h 42m67.6 kg3h 54m
Glasgow1,266 km67.1 kg20h318 kg5h 12m
Leeds985 km44.3 kg16h 6m248 kg4h 48m
Lisbon1,746 km51.5 kg25h 54m439 kg5h 48m
Liverpool1,036 km45.4 kg16h 18m261 kg4h 54m
London760 km22.4 kg12h 24m191 kg4h 30m
Madrid1,273 km37.6 kg19h 24m320 kg5h 12m
Manchester999 km43.5 kg16h251 kg4h 48m
Milan252 km7.4 kg5h 24m63.4 kg3h 48m
Munich225 km6.6 kg5h 6m56.5 kg3h 48m
Newcastle1,076 km54.4 kg17h 48m271 kg4h 54m
Nottingham906 km36.5 kg14h 48m228 kg4h 42m
Oslo1,365 km40.3 kg20h 42m343 kg5h 18m
Paris482 km14.2 kg8h 36m121 kg4h 6m
Prague499 km14.7 kg8h 48m126 kg4h 12m
Rome714 km21.1 kg11h 48m180 kg4h 30m
Sheffield952 km40.7 kg15h 30m239 kg4h 48m
Southampton810 km31.4 kg13h 54m204 kg4h 36m
Stockholm1,433 km42.3 kg21h 36m360 kg5h 24m
Vienna579 km17.1 kg9h 54m146 kg4h 18m
Warsaw1,017 km30.0 kg15h 54m256 kg4h 54m

The year in Schaffhausen

ERA5 reanalysis, 2023–2024 monthly means
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temp °C1.64.06.68.313.518.519.720.416.011.54.61.8
Sun h/day3.76.67.48.39.912.112.311.09.66.94.63.9
Rain mm/day2.41.63.03.54.22.92.12.53.02.54.53.3

When to go

Schaffhausen is warmest in August at 20.4 °C but brightest in July, averaging 12.3 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 1.6 °C.

Staying there

A hotel room in Switzerland emits about 6.6 kg CO₂e per night under UK Government 2026 factors, so a week adds roughly 46 kg — about 7.0× the carbon of getting there by rail from Munich.

How busy it gets

Schaffhausen records 1.8 overnight stays per resident a year (160,955 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 Schaffhausen

Places to stay in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 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.