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General information - Location

Country	Italy
Location in country	South
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 14.7947,Lat: 37.0474
Elevation	522 meter above sea level
Local time	16:01:33pm
At island	Sicily
Name province/region	Sicilia
Name Subregion	Ragusa
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Giarratana

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Monterosso Almo	5.3 km	NorthNorthWest
2 Chiaramonte Gulfi	8.5 km	WestSouthWest
3 Buscemi	9.2 km	EastNorthEast
4 Buccheri	9.9 km	NorthNorthEast
5 Palazzolo Acreide	10 km	EastNorthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Valletta	Malta	129 km	South
2 Roma	Italy	570 km	NorthNorthWest
3 Città del Vaticano	Vatican-city	572 km	NorthNorthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Mediterranean Sea is the nearest oceancoast with a distance of around 35 km (direction SouthSouthWest). The nearest bigger lake is Lago di Santa Rosalia (1.2 km² at a height of around 372 meter above sea level) at a distance of 6.2 km in SouthSouthWestern direction).

The nearest mountain is Monte Lauro with a height of 986 meter (at a distance of 7.5 km and direction NorthNorthEast). The most nearby international border is the Albanian-Greek border with a straight distance of 545.6 km in NorthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 764 km.
Elevation around place: hill: 14%, low mountains: 83%, moderate high mountains: 3%, The hills are mainly southeastern orientated. 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 52 km and direction NorthNorthEast).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Comiso Airport (at a distance of 18 km in WestSouthWestern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

10.5 km2

13.3%

Nature

6.3 km2

Agriculture

61.3 km2

78%

Urban area

0.5 km2

0.6%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Giarratana in country Italy

Giarratana at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)	Italy	30 km	EastSouthEast
2 Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica	Italy	45 km	East
3 Villa Romana del Casale	Italy	54 km	NorthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Monte Lauro	IT	5.1 km	NorthEast

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Giarratana

Type of weather in Giarratana	scattered clouds
Current temperature:	17 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	10.29 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 5)
Wind direction:	West
Air pressure:	1017 mb
Humidity:	45 %
Daylength at 3 May 2024:	13 hour and 47 minutes
Sunrise :	06:03 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	19:51 Europe/Amsterdam