Hotels at Sournia booking.com

Sournia

Booking.com

Sournia

General information - Location

Country	France
Location in country	South
Location in Europe	West Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 2.438,Lat: 42.7283
Elevation	569 meter above sea level
Local time	6:30:05am
Name province/region	Languedoc-Roussillon
Name Subregion	Pyrénées-Orientales
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Prades
Name	Sournia

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Le Vivier	4.9 km	NorthNorthEast
2 Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet	10.4 km	NorthEast
3 Marquixanes	10.6 km	SouthSouthEast
4 Catllar	10.7 km	SouthSouthWest
5 Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes	10.7 km	NorthNorthWest

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Andorra	Andorra	79 km	WestSouthWest
2 Monte Carlo	Monaco	420 km	EastNorthEast
3 Madrid	Spain	569 km	WestSouthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Mediterranean Sea is the nearest oceancoast with a distance of around 48 km (direction East).The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Rhone coastal: Tet, Aude, Herault, part of the larger catchment area Rhone and Coastal Mediterranean. The nearest bigger lake is Retenue de Caramany (1.7 km² at a height of around -1 meter above sea level) at a distance of 7.8 km in EastNorthEastern direction).

The nearest mountain is Pic du Canigou with a height of 2784 meter (at a distance of 23.6 km and direction South). The most nearby international border is the French-Spanish border with a straight distance of 34.7 km in SouthSouthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 49 km.
Elevation around place: hill: 15%, low mountains: 56%, moderate high mountains: 29%, The hills are mainly northeastern orientated. The most common land use in the area is nature.

Name area (subregions, nature area, hills, mountains, landscape)

Name
Le Haut-Fenouillèdes - La montagne

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (at a distance of 133 km and direction NorthWest).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Perpignan-Rivesaltes (Llabanère) Airport (at a distance of 36 km in Eastern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

31.8 km2

40.5%

Nature

33.8 km2

43%

Agriculture

12 km2

15.3%

Viticulture

0.6 km2

0.8%

Urban area

0.3 km2

0.4%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Sournia in country France

Sournia at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne	France	54 km	North
2 Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley	Andorra	74 km	WestSouthWest
3 Canal du Midi	France	129 km	NorthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Sites chiroptres des Pyrnes orientales	FR	2 km	East

Social media - Maps

	Video's op youtube van Sournia
	Video's op Vimeo
	TikTok
	Instagram
	Flickr
Filming Location	IMDB Sournia
	TikTok
	Bings maps
	Mapquest
	Wikimapia
	OpenStreetMap

france aeas

Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet

Type of weather in Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet	clear sky
Current temperature:	4 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	2.65 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 2)
Wind direction:	West South West
Air pressure:	1019 mb
Humidity:	60 %
Daylength at 3 May 2024:	14 hour and 11 minutes
Sunrise :	06:41 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	20:52 Europe/Amsterdam