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General information - Location

Country	Austria
Location in country	Southwest
Location in Europe	Central Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 14.2919,Lat: 46.8741
Elevation	676 meter above sea level
Local time	3:37:03am
Name province/region (Bundesland)	Kärnten
Wiki-website Subregion (Bezirkshauptmannschaft)	Sankt Veit an der Glan
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Gurk
Other place with same name 1	Gurk Kärnten - Feldkirchen

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Sankt Peter	2.2 km	NorthNorthWest
2 Gwadnitz	2.7 km	SouthSouthEast
3 Pisweg	2.9 km	South
4 Straßburg	3.6 km	NorthEast
5 Hausdorf	4.3 km	North

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Ljubljana	Slovenia	92 km	SouthSouthEast
2 Zagreb	Croatia	176 km	SouthEast
3 Wien	Austria	216 km	NorthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea) is the nearest seacoast with a distance of around 132 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 Längsee (0.7 km² at a height of around 547 meter above sea level) at a distance of 13.4 km in SouthEastern direction).

The nearest mountain is Prankerhöhe with a height of 2166 meter (at a distance of 23.7 km and direction NorthWest). The most nearby international border is the Slovian-Austrian border with a straight distance of 45.8 km in SouthSouthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 64 km.
Elevation around place: low mountains: 30%, moderate high mountains: 70%, 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 73 km and direction SouthSouthEast).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Klagenfurt Airport (at a distance of 26 km in Southern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

54 km2

68.7%

Nature

0.5 km2

0.6%

Agriculture

22.8 km2

29.1%

Urban area

1.3 km2

1.6%

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 City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg	Austria	87 km	EastNorthEast
2 Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape	Austria	90 km	NorthWest
3 The works of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana – Human Centred Urban Design	Slovenia	94 km	SouthSouthEast

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Ingolsthal	AT	15 km	North

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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 Gurk

Type of weather in Gurk	overcast clouds
Current temperature:	-1 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	0.6 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 1)
Wind direction:	West North West
Air pressure:	992 mb
Humidity:	88 %
Daylength at 22 November 2024:	9 hour and 6 minutes
Sunrise :	07:16 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	16:22 Europe/Amsterdam