Norway · 59.21°, 9.61° · 27 m

Skien

Name: Skien
Address: Skien, NO

Skien, Norway — Photo: Bitjungle, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Reaching Skien from London emits 31.1 kg CO₂e return by rail (18h 54m each way) against 265 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 16.2 °C in June and -3.2 °C in January.

Skien is a town in the county of Telemark with a population of 70,000. — Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0

When to go: Skien is warmest in June (16.2 °C), driest in May; coldest in January (-3.2 °C). Month by month

31.1kg CO₂e return by rail, from London

265kg CO₂e return by air, from London

13.4hours of sunshine a day in June, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and one-way journey time to Skien. Times are modelled.
From	Distance	By rail	Rail time	By air	Air time
Amsterdam	815 km	24.0 kg	13h 48m	205 kg	4h 36m
Barcelona	2,048 km	60.4 kg	25h 48m	515 kg	6h 12m
Berlin	780 km	23.0 kg	13h 18m	196 kg	4h 30m
Birmingham	1,035 km	44.1 kg	21h 36m	260 kg	4h 54m
Bristol	1,154 km	44.8 kg	21h 54m	290 kg	5h
Brussels	987 km	29.1 kg	16h 18m	248 kg	4h 48m
Cardiff	1,176 km	48.0 kg	22h 12m	296 kg	5h 6m
Copenhagen	431 km	12.7 kg	8h 12m	108 kg	4h 6m
Dublin	1,173 km	—	—	295 kg	5h 6m
Edinburgh	843 km	74.0 kg	24h 36m	212 kg	4h 36m
Frankfurt	1,013 km	29.9 kg	15h 18m	255 kg	4h 54m
Glasgow	905 km	75.7 kg	24h 48m	228 kg	4h 42m
Leeds	910 km	52.9 kg	22h 30m	229 kg	4h 42m
Lisbon	2,637 km	77.8 kg	39h 48m	663 kg	7h
Liverpool	1,006 km	54.1 kg	22h 30m	253 kg	4h 48m
London	1,052 km	31.1 kg	18h 54m	265 kg	4h 54m
Madrid	2,288 km	67.5 kg	29h 24m	575 kg	6h 36m
Manchester	966 km	52.1 kg	22h 24m	243 kg	4h 48m
Milan	1,529 km	45.1 kg	24h	385 kg	5h 30m
Munich	1,238 km	36.5 kg	17h 42m	311 kg	5h 12m
Newcastle	824 km	63.0 kg	23h 6m	207 kg	4h 36m
Nottingham	962 km	45.1 kg	22h	242 kg	4h 48m
Paris	1,244 km	36.7 kg	17h 42m	313 kg	5h 12m
Prague	1,060 km	31.3 kg	17h 18m	267 kg	4h 54m
Rome	1,936 km	57.1 kg	27h 36m	487 kg	6h 6m
Sheffield	939 km	49.3 kg	22h 18m	236 kg	4h 48m
Southampton	1,157 km	40.0 kg	21h 36m	291 kg	5h
Stockholm	481 km	14.2 kg	8h 42m	121 kg	4h 6m
Vienna	1,300 km	38.4 kg	20h 48m	327 kg	5h 12m
Warsaw	1,052 km	31.0 kg	16h 42m	265 kg	4h 54m
Zurich	1,319 km	38.9 kg	21h	332 kg	5h 18m

The year in Skien

Average temperature, °C — warmest in June

Sunshine, hours a day — brightest in June

Historical daily means for 2023–2024, by month (ERA5 reanalysis) — averaged across day and night
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Temp °C	-3.2	-0.3	0.9	5.6	13.4	16.2	16.1	15.9	14.0	7.6	1.7	-1.3
Sun h/day	2.8	4.8	5.4	9.2	13.2	13.4	11.7	9.4	7.7	5.2	3.3	2.1
Rain mm/day	5.0	3.0	3.0	2.9	2.5	3.4	5.4	5.5	4.0	2.9	2.6	2.8

When to go

Skien is warmest in June at 16.2 °C, and that is also its brightest month. Its coldest is January at -3.2 °C.

Three months worth booking

The same year of measurements, decided rather than tabulated. Each opens the map below on dates in that month.

warmest and sunniestJune16.2 °C · 13.4 h sun · 3.4 mm rainSee rooms in June →driestMay13.4 °C · 13.2 h sun · 2.5 mm rainSee rooms in May →

How busy it gets

Telemark records 7 overnight stays per resident a year (1,236,967 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 Skien

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

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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.