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Where Europe's summer has the lowest crowding density

Index 1.1 · As of · 282 travel regions

265 European travel regions carry a comparable crowding density. The thinnest spread in summer is Spitzbergen und Jan Mayen at 0.07 overnight stays per square kilometre and week, against a European median of 20.52. The table lists the 20 regions with the lowest summer density, plus temperature and connections.

The methodology explains how this is calculated.

  1. 282travel regions

    Travel regions

    all travel regions with a crowding score in the index

  2. 265travel regions

    Starting set

    of those, distinct NUTS 2 bases — regions sharing one carry identical figures and count once

  3. 265travel regions

    Crowding

    of those, with an area basis and therefore comparable density

  4. 20travel regions

    Shortlist

    the leaders of this list appear in the table, at most 20

Where Europe's summer has the lowest crowding density

Sorted by crowding density, ascending — which is also the only axis on which these regions can be compared with each other. Daytime mean and direct origin countries stand alongside as context.
RankTravel regionCountryOvernight stays/km²/weekDaytime mean °CDirect origin countries
1Spitzbergen und Jan MayenNorwegen0.07–no value1
2WestmakedonienGriechenland0.7423.91
3Pohjois- ja Itä-SuomiFinnland0.8015.419
4Övre NorrlandSchweden0.9313.511
5SeverozapadenBulgarien0.9724.3–no value
6Mazowiecki regionalnyPolen1.2722.33
7Mellersta NorrlandSchweden1.2915.75
8Severen tsentralenBulgarien1.4123.5–no value
9NordnorwegenNorwegen1.469.216
10VestRumänien1.5725.314
11Sud-MunteniaRumänien1.6224.1–no value
12Kastilien-La ManchaSpanien1.8126.5–no value
13Panonska HrvatskaKroatien1.9023.53
14PodlachienPolen1.9019.5–no value
15Länsi-SuomiFinnland2.0016.25
16Nord-EstRumänien2.0322.016
17Sud-Vest OlteniaRumänien2.0423.38
18LettlandLettland2.1018.428
19Trøndelag/TrööndelageNorwegen2.1115.615
20OppelnPolen2.1222.4–no value

“Lowest density” does not mean “empty”. Even the first region on this list has guests — it simply spreads them across a great deal of ground. The figure measures overnight stays per square kilometre and week and says nothing about how busy any single place within that area is.

Density spreads a NUTS 2 region's overnight stays evenly across its entire area. In regions with one heavily visited place and a large unvisited hinterland it is therefore lower than that place alone would suggest.

Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2025.

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