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General information - Location

Country	Italy
Location in country	South
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 15.1402,Lat: 37.5952
Elevation	177 meter above sea level
Local time	18:58:51pm
At island	Sicily
Name province/region	Sicilia
Name Subregion	Catania
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Aci Catena

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Marchesana	0.7 km	WestSouthWest
2 Maugeri	1.7 km	WestSouthWest
3 Aci Sant'Antonio	1.9 km	NorthWest
4 Acireale	2.2 km	NorthEast
5 Vambolieri	2.7 km	SouthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Valletta	Malta	196 km	SouthSouthWest
2 Roma	Italy	525 km	NorthNorthWest
3 Città del Vaticano	Vatican-city	528 km	NorthNorthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Ionian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) is very close with only a distance of around 3 km (direction East). The nearest bigger lake is Lago di Lentini (7.2 km² at a height of around 42 meter above sea level) at a distance of 32.7 km in SouthSouthWestern direction).

The nearest mountain is Monte Etna with a height of 3323 meter (at a distance of 21.4 km and direction NorthWest).The nearest vulcano (within 50 km) is the Mount Etna (Shield volcano) at a distance of 19.4 km (direction NorthWest). The most nearby international border is the Albanian-Greek border with a straight distance of 486.9 km in NorthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 682 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 1%, low location: 32%, hill: 67%, low mountains: 0%, The hills are mainly eastern orientated. The surroundings of the place is moderately urbanised. The most common land use in the area is agriculture.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (at a distance of 16 km and direction SouthSouthWest).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

1.9 km2

2.9%

Nature

1.4 km2

2.1%

Agriculture

36 km2

55.7%

Urban area

25.1 km2

38.9%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Aci Catena in country Italy

Aci Catena at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Mount Etna	Italy	22 km	NorthWest
2 Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica	Italy	60 km	SouthSouthEast
3 Villa Romana del Casale	Italy	76 km	WestSouthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Timpa di Acireale	IT	2.6 km	East

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Aci Catena

Type of weather in Aci Catena	broken clouds
Current temperature:	14 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	5.14 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 3)
Wind direction:	North East
Air pressure:	1010 mb
Humidity:	65 %
Daylength at 25 April 2024:	13 hour and 33 minutes
Sunrise :	06:10 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	19:43 Europe/Amsterdam