Remote worker
88
77% coverage
Needs bandwidth and an airport more than it needs a pharmacy. Will trade services for cheap space and a fast train.
Missing: community, cost
AN · Marche
Cupramontana
- Residents
- 4,321
- Elevation
- 505 m
- Comune
- 27.4 km²
- Also known as
- Massaccio
Photo Davide · CC BY-SA 2.0
The feeling
Cupramontana keeps its back to the Apennines and its vines to the sun. It is the capital of Verdicchio — a working wine town on a ridge, with four churches, a hermitage in the woods and the Adriatic half an hour east.
It is not a film set. Mornings are deliveries and shutters; afternoons are quiet enough to hear the valley. The town keeps a pharmacy, a post office and a handful of bars — and, improbably for somewhere this small, a fibre connection faster than most city flats.
7 of 9 axes measured (78% coverage). No data yet for cost, community — those axes are excluded from every score on this page, not counted as zero.
292Mbps
Average download
Measured across 150 tests · 30 ms latency
27km
To the airport
Aeroporto "Raffaello Sanzio" di Ancona-Falconara (AOI)
114days
Clear skies a year
July averages 24.4°C
29km
To the sea
Rail station 4.7 km away
How it scores
7 axes, out of a hundred
Read low numbers as character, not failure — but read them.
services
Excellent
Daily needs in the village itself. Groceries, pharmacies, a post office and a clinic inside the town — you can live a week here without starting the car
access
Excellent
How reachable the outside world is. The station sits down the hill and the motorway junction is closer still
vitality
Fair
Is the population holding or draining away. The population is holding better than most hill towns its size, but it is not growing
hospitality
Very good
Signs of life: bars, places to eat, places to stay. Enough bars and places to stay for an evening, not for a choice of them
climate
Good
Sun, winter, summer. Hot, bright summers and a short frosty winter at this altitude
digital
Excellent
Measured internet speed. Among the fastest connections we have measured in a village this small
air
Good
Air quality against WHO guidelines. Clean by Italian standards, though fine particulates still cross the WHO line
A year here
What the calendar actually feels like
January averages 4.7°C and July 24.4°C.
37days
Above 30°C
31days
Of frost
114days
Clear days
The air
Measured against WHO guidelines
A bar past the line means the annual mean exceeds the WHO guideline for that pollutant.
PM2.5
9.4 µg/m³ · 1.88× guideline
Above the WHO annual guideline (marked)
PM10
13.2 µg/m³ · 0.88× guideline
Within the WHO annual guideline (marked)
NO₂
3.3 µg/m³ · 0.33× guideline
Within the WHO annual guideline (marked)
A note on the data
54 days a year exceed the WHO daily PM2.5 guideline. That is normal for central Italy and worth knowing anyway.
Daily life
What is actually in the village
Counted inside the comune boundary from OpenStreetMap.
5
Groceries
5
Bars & cafés
2
Restaurants
2
Pharmacies
2
Banks & ATMs
5
Places to stay
2
Schools
12
Sports grounds
0
Doctors' surgeries
0
Coworking
A note on the data
No doctor's surgery and no coworking space are mapped inside the comune. For both, you drive.
Getting out
How far the outside world is
Distances are straight-line unless labelled as a drive. We never mix the two.
Rail station
Castelplanio-Cupramontana
4.7 km
Motorway
unnamed toll gate
39 km
Airport
Aeroporto "Raffaello Sanzio" di Ancona-Falconara (AOI)
27 km
The sea
29 km
Ski lift
Fondo Valle
33 km
Drive to Rome
251 km
3 h 20 min
Drive to Florence
238 km
3 h 4 min
Drive to Milan
442 km
5 h 38 min
Drive to Naples
449 km
5 h 9 min
The honest part
Who lives here, and for how much longer
On current births and deaths alone, the population changes by -19.5% over twenty years. It is a projection, not a forecast — no migration is modelled.
Mean age
48.3
Over 65
29 %
Under 15
11 %
A note on the data
Nearest facility tagged as a hospital is "Ambulatori" — that name suggests an outpatient clinic, not a hospital with an emergency room. Rather than trust it or zero it, we excluded hospital distance from this village's access score and reweighted the rest.
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.
Retiree / semi-retired
86
72% 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: community, cost
Cheap-house renovator
79
59% coverage
Chasing price per square metre. Tolerates isolation, but a village that is emptying fast is a house that will never resell.
Missing: community, cost
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Sources
Every number on this page came from somewhere
Last refreshed 2026-07-26.
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 + ITI3 fertility 2024 (TFR 1.11)
ec.europa.eu
2026+20y
Ookla Open Data, fixed broadband tiles (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
github.com
2026Q1
Open-Meteo air quality (CAMS European reanalysis)
open-meteo.com
2024
Open-Meteo ERA5 archive (2015-2024 daily reanalysis)
open-meteo.com
2015/2024
OpenStreetMap (Overpass)
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OpenStreetMap (Overpass)
www.openstreetmap.org
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OSRM routing over OpenStreetMap
router.project-osrm.org
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OSRM routing over OpenStreetMap
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Wikidata (P1082/P2046/P2044, sourced from ISTAT)
www.wikidata.org
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Field-by-field definitions and caveats live in the data dictionary.