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General information - Location

Country	Austria
Location in country	Southwest
Location in Europe	Central Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 14.0082,Lat: 46.7768
Elevation	1184 meter above sea level
Local time	7:33:14am
Name province/region (Bundesland)	Kärnten
Wiki-website Subregion (Bezirkshauptmannschaft)	Feldkirchen
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Gnesau
Other place with same name 1	Gurk Kärnten - Sankt Veit an der Glan

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Wöllach	1.7 km	SouthEast
2 Gnesau	3.5 km	West
3 Himmelberg	3.9 km	SouthEast
4 Werschling	4.4 km	EastSouthEast
5 Tiffnerwinkl	5.8 km	SouthSouthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Ljubljana	Slovenia	89 km	SouthSouthEast
2 Zagreb	Croatia	186 km	EastSouthEast
3 Wien	Austria	239 km	NorthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea) is the nearest seacoast with a distance of around 114 km (direction SouthSouthWest).The coastline is located in another country namely Italy.The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Drau, part of the larger catchment area Danube Region Basin District. The nearest bigger lake is Ossiacher See (9.4 km² at a height of around 501 meter above sea level) at a distance of 9.1 km in Southern direction).

The nearest mountain is Turracher Höhe with a height of 1783 meter (at a distance of 18.4 km and direction NorthWest). The most nearby international border is the Slovian-Austrian border with a straight distance of 29.4 km in SouthSouthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 41 km.
Elevation around place: low mountains: 8%, moderate high mountains: 75%, high mountains: 18%, The hills are mainly southern orientated. The most common land use in the area is forest.

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

Name
Zentralalpen - südöstlicher Teil

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Ljubljana Jože Pucnik Airport (at a distance of 70 km and direction SouthSouthEast).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Klagenfurt Airport (at a distance of 29 km in EastSouthEastern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

57 km2

72.6%

Nature

3.5 km2

4.5%

Wet nature

0.3 km2

0.4%

Agriculture

17 km2

21.6%

Urban area

0.7 km2

0.9%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Gurk in country Austria

Gurk at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.)	Italy	88 km	SouthSouthWest
2 The works of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana – Human Centred Urban Design	Slovenia	90 km	SouthSouthEast
3 Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape	Austria	91 km	NorthNorthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Tiffen	AT	7.7 km	South

Social media - Maps

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Filming Location	IMDB Gurk
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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Himmelberg

Type of weather in Himmelberg	light snow
Current temperature:	-3 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	2.18 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 2)
Wind direction:	North
Air pressure:	999 mb
Humidity:	79 %
Daylength at 22 November 2024:	9 hour and 7 minutes
Sunrise :	07:17 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	16:23 Europe/Amsterdam