Hotels at Ponte Capriasca booking.com

Ponte Capriasca

Booking.com

Ponte Capriasca

General information - Location

Country	Switzerland
Location in country	Southeast
Location in Europe	Central Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 8.9504,Lat: 46.0608
Elevation	542 meter above sea level
Local time	17:34:46pm
Name province/region (Kanton)	Ticino
Wiki-website Subregion (Bezirk)	Lugano
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Ponte Capriasca

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Vaglio	0.5 km	East
2 Sala	0.7 km	NorthEast
3 Origlio	0.8 km	SouthWest
4 Tesserete	1.4 km	EastNorthEast
5 Torricella-Taverne	1.6 km	WestNorthWest

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Vaduz	Liechtenstein	128 km	NorthNorthEast
2 Bern	Switzerland	152 km	NorthWest
3 Monte Carlo	Monaco	285 km	SouthSouthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) is the nearest seacoast with a distance of around 182 km (direction South).The coastline is located in another country namely Italy.The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Po main - Medium - Adda, Ticino, part of the larger catchment area Po Basin. The nearest bigger lake is Lago di Lugano (Luganer See) (26.9 km² at a height of around 270 meter above sea level) at a distance of 6.3 km in Southern direction).

The nearest mountain is Monte Generoso with a height of 1701 meter (at a distance of 15.3 km and direction SouthSouthEast). The most nearby international border is the Italian-Swiss border with a straight distance of 5.3 km in EastSouthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 7.4 km.
Elevation around place: hill: 37%, low mountains: 35%, moderate high mountains: 28%, high mountains: 0%, The hills are mainly western orientated. The surroundings of the place is lightly urbanised. The most common land use in the area is forest.

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

Name
Waldgeprägte Hügellandschaft der Südalpen -- Paysage de collines des Alpes méridionales marqué par la forêt

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Malpensa International Airport (at a distance of 51 km and direction SouthSouthWest).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Lugano Airport (at a distance of 7 km in SouthSouthWestern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

49.7 km2

63.2%

Nature

3.9 km2

4.9%

Agriculture

0.9 km2

1.1%

Urban area

22.8 km2

29%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Ponte Capriasca in country Switzerland

Ponte Capriasca at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-Town of Bellinzona	Switzerland	16 km	NorthNorthEast
2 Monte San Giorgio	Italy,Switzerland	19 km	South
3 Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy	Italy	20 km	EastSouthEast

Social media - Maps

	Video's op youtube van Ponte Capriasca
	Video's op Vimeo
	TikTok
	Instagram
	Flickr
Filming Location	IMDB Ponte Capriasca
	TikTok
	Bings maps
	Mapquest
	Wikimapia
	OpenStreetMap

Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Bigorio

Type of weather in Bigorio	snow
Current temperature:	-0 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	1.03 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 1)
Wind direction:	North
Air pressure:	1000 mb
Humidity:	88 %
Daylength at 21 November 2024:	9 hour and 13 minutes
Sunrise :	07:33 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	16:47 Europe/Amsterdam