Calculate Your Carbon Footprint for Air Travel
Wondering what your carbon footprint is when you travel by air? This handy table tells you how much carbon dioxide is emitted per passenger (measured in metric tons) for roundtrip flights departing from the Roanoke - Blacksburg Regional Airport (ROA) or Dulles International Airport (IAD) and traveling to destinations across the United States.
These values represent the average emissions for the flights listed, but the actual footprint would be affected by differences in connecting flights and the type of aircraft. It is for those same reasons that for some destinations, the emissions from Roanoke are greater than from Dulles, even if the destination is geographically closer to Roanoke.
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Metric Tons of CO2 Emitted (RT Flights)
|
Destination |
Departing Roanoke |
Departing Dulles |
|
Atlanta |
0.31 |
0.28 |
|
Austin |
0.63 |
0.56 |
|
Birmingham |
0.43 |
0.47 |
|
Boston |
0.48 |
0.34 |
|
Chicago |
0.46 |
0.42 |
|
Dallas |
0.56 |
0.52 |
|
Denver |
0.71 |
0.54 |
|
Detroit |
0.48 |
0.25 |
|
Houston |
0.60 |
0.57 |
|
Los Angeles |
0.98 |
0.78 |
|
Las Vegas |
0.90 |
0.88 |
|
Memphis |
0.48 |
0.51 |
|
Miami |
0.52 |
0.36 |
|
Minneapolis |
0.62 |
0.50 |
|
New Orleans |
0.51 |
0.52 |
|
Orlando |
0.48 |
0.45 |
|
Salt Lake City |
1.00 |
0.84 |
|
San Francisco |
1.08 |
0.94 |
|
Seattle |
1.01 |
0.79 |
Values of estimated metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2eq) emissions calculated using Google Flight information, accessed February 2022.