Spain hotel night: carbon footprint per room-night
Live factor value
7 kgCO2e per room-night
Source: UK DESNZ greenhouse-gas conversion factors, 2026 (revision 2). Factor set desnz-2026-r2.
Spain's hotel-night factor sits near the bottom of the official DESNZ 2026 country table — the live figure is below — thanks to a grid where wind and solar now supply a large and growing share of generation. It is only a shade above France's and well under the UK figure.
Spain is the UK's biggest holiday destination, so this is the factor behind millions of trips: a week's hotel stay on the Costas typically adds far less to a holiday footprint than the return flights do. Use the hotel and travel calculators together to see the split for your own trip.
Worked example
A week's holiday stay in Spain (7 nights): 7 × 7 = 49 kgCO2e.
Measure your own with the free hotel calculator.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the hotel or the flight the bigger part of a Spanish holiday footprint?
- Almost always the flight: seven Spanish hotel nights come to around 50 kg CO2e on the official factor, while a London–Málaga economy return is several times that.