Germany · 51.37°, 10.87° · 192 m

Sondershausen

Reaching Sondershausen from London emits 22.5 kg CO₂e return by rail (11h 36m each way) against 192 kg by air — 9× the carbon. It averages 19.3 °C in August and 2.1 °C in January.

When to go: Sondershausen is warmest in August (19.3 °C), sunniest in June (13.0 h a day); coldest in January (2.1 °C). Month by month

22.5kg CO₂e return by rail, from London

192kg CO₂e return by air, from London

13.0hours of sunshine a day in June, its brightest month

Getting there

Return carbon and one-way journey time to Sondershausen. Times are modelled.
From	Distance	By rail	Rail time	By air	Air time
Amsterdam	425 km	12.6 kg	8h 6m	107 kg	4h 6m
Barcelona	1,293 km	38.2 kg	16h 48m	325 kg	5h 12m
Berlin	216 km	6.4 kg	4h 36m	54.4 kg	3h 48m
Birmingham	883 km	35.6 kg	14h 24m	222 kg	4h 42m
Bristol	933 km	36.2 kg	14h 36m	235 kg	4h 42m
Brussels	459 km	13.5 kg	7h 54m	115 kg	4h 6m
Cardiff	973 km	39.5 kg	14h 54m	245 kg	4h 48m
Copenhagen	492 km	14.5 kg	9h 6m	124 kg	4h 12m
Dublin	1,180 km	—	—	297 kg	5h 6m
Edinburgh	1,055 km	65.4 kg	17h 24m	265 kg	4h 54m
Frankfurt	208 km	6.1 kg	4h 30m	52.2 kg	3h 48m
Glasgow	1,113 km	67.1 kg	17h 30m	280 kg	5h
Leeds	880 km	44.3 kg	15h 12m	221 kg	4h 42m
Lisbon	2,097 km	61.9 kg	32h 18m	527 kg	6h 18m
Liverpool	965 km	45.5 kg	15h 12m	243 kg	4h 48m
London	762 km	22.5 kg	11h 36m	192 kg	4h 30m
Madrid	1,654 km	48.8 kg	20h 24m	416 kg	5h 42m
Manchester	918 km	43.5 kg	15h 6m	231 kg	4h 42m
Milan	668 km	19.7 kg	11h 36m	168 kg	4h 24m
Munich	363 km	10.7 kg	6h 18m	91.3 kg	4h
Newcastle	922 km	54.5 kg	15h 54m	232 kg	4h 42m
Nottingham	838 km	36.6 kg	14h 42m	211 kg	4h 36m
Oslo	950 km	28.0 kg	15h 42m	239 kg	4h 48m
Paris	668 km	19.7 kg	8h 48m	168 kg	4h 24m
Prague	288 km	8.5 kg	6h 12m	72.4 kg	3h 54m
Rome	1,061 km	31.3 kg	15h 6m	267 kg	4h 54m
Sheffield	866 km	40.8 kg	15h	218 kg	4h 42m
Southampton	857 km	31.4 kg	14h 18m	216 kg	4h 36m
Stockholm	994 km	29.3 kg	14h 6m	250 kg	4h 48m
Vienna	528 km	15.6 kg	9h 42m	133 kg	4h 12m
Warsaw	703 km	20.8 kg	11h 18m	177 kg	4h 24m
Zurich	476 km	14.0 kg	8h 54m	120 kg	4h 6m

The year in Sondershausen

Average temperature, °C — warmest in August

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	2.1	4.4	5.9	8.3	13.7	17.6	19.0	19.3	16.8	11.4	4.9	3.1
Sun h/day	3.0	4.4	6.6	8.8	10.9	13.0	11.7	11.1	9.9	6.3	3.7	2.8
Rain mm/day	1.7	1.8	2.2	2.0	2.1	2.5	1.8	2.4	1.8	2.3	2.1	2.2

When to go

Sondershausen is warmest in August at 19.3 °C but brightest in June, averaging 13.0 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 2.1 °C.

Three months worth booking

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

warmestAugust19.3 °C · 11.1 h sun · 2.4 mm rainSee rooms in August →sunniestJune17.6 °C · 13.0 h sun · 2.5 mm rainSee rooms in June →

Staying there

A hotel room in Germany emits about 13.2 kg CO₂e per night under UK Government 2026 factors — a country average per occupied room, not this or any particular hotel. 7 nights in one room adds roughly 92 kg — about 15.1× the carbon of one person getting there by rail from Frankfurt. Two sharing the room halve that share each; the journey does not halve.

How busy it gets

Kyffhäuserkreis records 2.9 overnight stays per resident a year (209,286 nights in 2024). 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 Sondershausen

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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.