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General information - Location

Country	Netherlands
Location in country	South
Location in Europe	West Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 5.8155,Lat: 50.831
Elevation	157 meter above sea level
Local time	2:46:53am
Name province/region (Provincie)	Limburg
Official website region	Official link Limburg
Wiki-website Subregion (Gemeente)	Eijsden-Margraten

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Margraten	1.2 km	SouthSouthEast
2 Klein-Welsden	1.5 km	WestNorthWest
3 IJzeren	1.6 km	NorthEast
4 Wolfshuis	1.7 km	NorthWest
5 Sibbe	1.8 km	NorthNorthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Brussel	Belgium	103 km	West
2 Luxembourg	Luxembourg	138 km	South
3 Amsterdam	Netherlands	183 km	NorthNorthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The North Sea is the nearest seacoast with a distance of around 124 km (direction WestNorthWest).The coastline is located in another country namely Belgium.The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Meuse. The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Lac de la Gileppe - Barrage de la Gileppe (1 km² at a distance of 29.2 km in SouthSouthEastern direction).

The nearest mountain is Vaalserberg with a height of 323 meter (at a distance of 16.8 km and direction SouthEast).One of the mountains in Aachener Wald The most nearby international border is the Dutch-Belgium border with a straight distance of 6 km in SouthSouthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 8.4 km.The nearest tripoint border within 25 km is the German Belgian Dutch tripoint with a straight distance of 16.8 km (direction SouthEast).
Elevation around place: low location: 100%, The hills are mainly northwestern orientated. The surroundings of the place have a rural character (very sparsely urbanised). The most common land use in the area is agriculture.

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

Name
Hills

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Eindhoven Airport (at a distance of 75 km and direction NorthNorthWest).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Maastricht Aachen Airport (at a distance of 9.5 km in NorthNorthWestern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

6.3 km2

Agriculture

64.2 km2

81.7%

Urban area

6.6 km2

8.5%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Groot-Welsden in country Netherlands

Groot-Welsden at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Aachen Cathedral	Germany	20 km	EastSouthEast
2 The Great Spa Towns of Europe	Austria,Belgium, Czechia,France, Germany,Italy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	38 km	South
3 Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl	Germany	77 km	East

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Bemelerberg & Schiepersberg	NL	1 km	West

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Margraten

Type of weather in Margraten	overcast clouds
Current temperature:	7 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	7.72 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 4)
Wind direction:	South South West
Air pressure:	1019 mb
Humidity:	83 %
Daylength at 18 December 2024:	7 hour and 57 minutes
Sunrise :	08:35 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	16:31 Europe/Amsterdam