Tortosa

Tortosa is in Tarragona (province), and the Ebro Way of St. — Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0

When to go: Tortosa is warmest in August (27.4 °C), sunniest in July (12.9 h a day); coldest in January (10.2 °C). Month by month

Getting there

By air: nearest airport Reus (REU), about 85 km away. Direct from London: yes (LGW, LTN, STN). Bus or taxi to Reus or Tarragona, then regional train to Tortosa. source

The year in Tortosa

When to go

Tortosa is warmest in August at 27.4 °C but brightest in July, averaging 12.9 hours of sun a day — the two do not always coincide, which is worth knowing before booking. Its coldest is January at 10.2 °C.

Three months worth booking

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

Staying there

A hotel room in Spain emits about 7 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 49 kg — about 10.9× the carbon of one person getting there by rail from Barcelona. Two sharing the room halve that share each; the journey does not halve.

How busy it gets

Tarragona records 22.5 overnight stays per resident a year (19,697,521 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.

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.