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General information - Location

Country	Italy
Location in country	South
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 15.1401,Lat: 37.7533
Elevation	586 meter above sea level
Local time	7:46:44am
At island	Sicily
Name province/region	Sicilia
Name Subregion	Catania
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Mascali

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Sant'Alfio	1.2 km	SouthSouthEast
2 Nunziata	2.5 km	EastNorthEast
3 San Giovanni	2.6 km	SouthEast
4 Fornazzo	3.1 km	SouthWest
5 Santa Venera-Portosalvo	3.8 km	NorthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Valletta	Malta	212 km	SouthSouthWest
2 Roma	Italy	509 km	NorthNorthWest
3 Città del Vaticano	Vatican-city	512 km	NorthNorthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Ionian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) is the nearest seacoast with a distance of around 6 km (direction East). The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Lago di Pozzillo (6.9 km² at a height of around 365 meter above sea level) at a distance of 47.6 km in WestSouthWestern direction).

The nearest mountain is Monte Etna with a height of 3323 meter (at a distance of 13.1 km and direction West).The nearest vulcano (within 50 km) is the Mount Etna (Shield volcano) at a distance of 12.3 km (direction WestSouthWest). The most nearby international border is the Albanian-Greek border with a straight distance of 478.3 km in EastNorthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 670 km.
Elevation around place: low location: 19%, hill: 25%, low mountains: 25%, moderate high mountains: 31%, high mountains: 0%, The hills are mainly eastern 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 32 km and direction South).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

8.5 km2

10.8%

Nature

12.2 km2

15.5%

Agriculture

48.6 km2

61.9%

Urban area

6.3 km2

Rock-Sand

3 km2

3.8%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Puntalazzo in country Italy

Puntalazzo at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Mount Etna	Italy	13 km	West
2 Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica	Italy	78 km	SouthSouthEast
3 Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)	Italy	83 km	NorthNorthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Monte Baracca, Contrada Giarrita	IT	3.3 km	NorthWest

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Sant'Alfio

Type of weather in Sant'Alfio	few clouds
Current temperature:	14 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	0.81 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 1)
Wind direction:	South East
Air pressure:	1017 mb
Humidity:	53 %
Daylength at 6 May 2024:	13 hour and 56 minutes
Sunrise :	05:57 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	19:54 Europe/Amsterdam