India hotel night: carbon footprint per room-night
Live factor value
58.9 kgCO2e per room-night
Source: UK DESNZ greenhouse-gas conversion factors, 2026 (revision 2). Factor set desnz-2026-r2.
India's official hotel-night factor — live below — is among the highest DESNZ publishes, at well over five times the UK figure. A coal-heavy grid meets intense cooling demand: air-conditioning an occupied room through an Indian summer takes real energy, and the per-night average carries it.
The published number is a national average across a hotel stock that ranges from fan-cooled guesthouses to heavily conditioned international towers, so the spread around it is wide. As India's solar capacity — already among the world's largest — grows into the evening-demand hours with storage, later editions should ease downward.
Worked example
A week's stay in India (7 nights): 7 × 58.9 = 412 kgCO2e.
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Frequently asked questions
- Why do hot-country hotels have such high factors?
- Cooling: air-conditioning load is the biggest single driver after grid intensity, and DESNZ's per-country averages capture both. A coal-powered grid plus heavy cooling puts India near the top of the table.