Remote worker
77
34% coverage
Needs bandwidth and an airport more than it needs a pharmacy. Will trade services for cheap space and a fast train.
Missing: access, air, community, cost, digital
AQ · Abruzzo
Castel del Monte
- Residents
- 379
- Elevation
- 1,346 m
- Comune
- 58.0 km²
Photo ParisTaras · CC BY-SA 4.0
The feeling
Castel del Monte sits in AQ, Abruzzo. We have not written this village up yet — what follows is only what we can measure, with every source named.
4 of 9 axes measured (44% coverage). No data yet for access, digital, air, cost, community — those axes are excluded from every score on this page, not counted as zero.
105days
Clear skies a year
July averages 17.6°C
How it scores
4 axes, out of a hundred
Read low numbers as character, not failure — but read them.
services
Good
Daily needs in the village itself. Daily needs are covered inside the village
vitality
Good
Is the population holding or draining away. Holding its population better than its neighbours
hospitality
Excellent
Signs of life: bars, places to eat, places to stay. Visible signs of life for a small place
climate
Thin
Sun, winter, summer. A demanding climate — cold, grey or both
A year here
What the calendar actually feels like
January averages -1.3°C and July 17.6°C.
1days
Above 30°C
122days
Of frost
105days
Clear days
Daily life
What is actually in the village
Counted inside the comune boundary from OpenStreetMap.
5
Groceries
1
Bars & cafés
10
Restaurants
1
Pharmacies
1
Banks & ATMs
4
Places to stay
1
Schools
4
Sports grounds
0
Doctors' surgeries
0
Coworking
No doctor
The honest part
Who lives here, and for how much longer
On current births and deaths alone, the population changes by -23.9% over twenty years. It is a projection, not a forecast — no migration is modelled.
Mean age
50.0
Over 65
31 %
Under 15
12 %
A note on the data
No Speedtest samples within 3 km, so there is no measured internet speed for this village. That absence is itself a signal about how many people are online here.
Who it fits
Three ways of wanting a village
Each score weights the axes differently. Coverage says how much of that weighting we could actually fill — a score built on fewer axes is a weaker claim.
Cheap-house renovator
76
40% coverage
Chasing price per square metre. Tolerates isolation, but a village that is emptying fast is a house that will never resell.
Missing: access, air, community, cost
Retiree / semi-retired
74
44% coverage
Wants a doctor nearby, a hospital that exists, sun, a house that costs less than the flat back home, and other foreigners to talk to.
Missing: access, air, community, cost
Nearby
Other villages in Abruzzo
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Sources
Every number on this page came from somewhere
Last refreshed 2026-07-28.
ISTAT POSAS (residents by age and sex, per comune)
demo.istat.it
2026
Italian Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
it.wikipedia.org
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Model: cohort-component, no migration. ISTAT POSAS (residents by age and sex, per comune) 2026 + Italian life table 2024 + ITF1 fertility 2024 (TFR 1.12)
ec.europa.eu
2026+20y
Ookla Open Data, fixed broadband tiles (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
github.com
2026Q1
Open-Meteo ERA5 archive (2015-2024 daily reanalysis)
open-meteo.com
2015/2024
OpenStreetMap (Overpass)
www.openstreetmap.org
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Wikidata (P1082/P2046/P2044, sourced from ISTAT)
www.wikidata.org
2017-01-01
Wikidata P18 / Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
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Field-by-field definitions and caveats live in the data dictionary.