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General information - Location

Country	Italy
Location in country	South
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 14.7681,Lat: 36.8482
Elevation	426 meter above sea level
Local time	14:06:17pm
At island	Sicily
Name province/region (Regione)	Sicilia
Wiki-website Subregion (Provincia)	Ragusa
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Modica

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Pirato	2.5 km	SouthSouthWest
2 Pietre Nere	3.4 km	East
3 Michelica	3.8 km	SouthEast
4 San Filippo	4.6 km	SouthSouthEast
5 Cappuccini I	4.9 km	East

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Valletta	Malta	107 km	South
2 Roma	Italy	589 km	NorthNorthWest
3 Città del Vaticano	Vatican-city	592 km	NorthNorthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Mediterranean Sea is the nearest oceancoast with a distance of around 14 km (direction South). 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 13.3 km in Northern direction).

The nearest mountain is Monte Renna with a height of 571 meter (at a distance of 8.4 km and direction West). The most nearby international border is the Albanian-Greek border with a straight distance of 560.3 km in NorthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 784 km.
Elevation around place: low location: 1%, hill: 93%, low mountains: 7%, The hills are mainly southern 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 73 km and direction NorthNorthEast).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Comiso Airport (at a distance of 22 km in NorthWestern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

3.1 km2

Nature

7.1 km2

9.1%

Agriculture

57.2 km2

72.8%

Urban area

11.2 km2

14.2%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Modica in country Italy

Modica 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	28 km	EastNorthEast
2 Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica	Italy	53 km	EastNorthEast
3 Villa Romana del Casale	Italy	69 km	NorthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Conca del Salto	IT	1.8 km	SouthWest

Social media - Maps

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

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Modica

Type of weather in Modica	broken clouds
Current temperature:	19 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	6.66 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 4)
Wind direction:	West North West
Air pressure:	1011 mb
Humidity:	57 %
Daylength at 21 November 2024:	10 hour and 3 minutes
Sunrise :	06:45 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	16:48 Europe/Amsterdam