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General information - Location

Country	Italy
Location in country	South
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 15.1242,Lat: 37.5661
Elevation	323 meter above sea level
Local time	17:27:22pm
At island	Sicily
Name province/region	Sicilia
Name Subregion	Catania
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Valverde

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Nizzetti I	0.8 km	East
2 Valverde	1.1 km	NorthNorthWest
3 Nizzeti	1.3 km	East
4 Aci Castello	1.3 km	SouthEast
5 San Gregorio di Catania	1.4 km	West

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Valletta	Malta	192 km	SouthSouthWest
2 Roma	Italy	528 km	NorthNorthWest
3 Città del Vaticano	Vatican-city	530 km	NorthNorthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Ionian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) is very close with only a distance of around 2 km (direction EastSouthEast). The nearest bigger lake is Lago di Lentini (7.2 km² at a height of around 42 meter above sea level) at a distance of 29.2 km in SouthSouthWestern direction).

The nearest mountain is Monte Etna with a height of 3323 meter (at a distance of 23.3 km and direction NorthWest).The nearest vulcano (within 50 km) is the Mount Etna (Shield volcano) at a distance of 21.3 km (direction NorthNorthWest). The most nearby international border is the Albanian-Greek border with a straight distance of 489.8 km in NorthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 686 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 1%, low location: 40%, hill: 59%, The hills are mainly southeastern orientated. The surroundings of the place is lightly urbanised. The most common land use in the area is urban.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (at a distance of 12 km and direction SouthSouthWest).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

0.5 km2

0.8%

Nature

0.9 km2

1.4%

Agriculture

30.6 km2

48.2%

Urban area

31.3 km2

49.3%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Portiere-Crocifisso in country Italy

Portiere-Crocifisso at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Mount Etna	Italy	24 km	NorthNorthWest
2 Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica	Italy	58 km	SouthSouthEast
3 Villa Romana del Casale	Italy	74 km	WestSouthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Complesso Immacolatelle, Micio Conti, boschi limitrofi	IT	0.2 km	SouthSouthEast

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at San Gregorio di Catania

Type of weather in San Gregorio di Catania	few clouds
Current temperature:	19 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	6.17 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 4)
Wind direction:	East South East
Air pressure:	1015 mb
Humidity:	45 %
Daylength at 3 May 2024:	13 hour and 49 minutes
Sunrise :	06:01 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	19:51 Europe/Amsterdam