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The short version
Monte Rinaldo is a village of about 300 people in the hills at 475 m in Marche.
It has a bar. There is the nearest train 19 km away and the nearest airport, "Raffaello Sanzio" di Ancona-Falconara (AOI) airport, 68 km away. The population is ageing: on births and deaths alone there would be around 80 people fewer here in twenty years. Internet is quick for somewhere this small — 191 Mbps measured.
We could measure 8 of the 9 things we look at in a village. We have nothing yet on house prices, so those are left out of every score below rather than counted as zero.
191Mbps
Average download
Measured across 56 tests · 36 ms latency
68km
To the airport
Aeroporto "Raffaello Sanzio" di Ancona-Falconara (AOI)
123days
Clear skies a year
July averages 24.0°C
22km
To the sea
Rail station 19 km away
On the map
The village in Italy, then in its region with the nearest others we have measured.
Boundaries from ISTAT administrative limits via openpolis/geojson-italy, licensed CC BY 4.0, simplified for drawing. Position from Wikidata. Distances are straight-line.
Getting in and out
Three ways out: the train, the motorway, the plane. Each one leads with how long it takes to reach it by car — ISTAT measures that for every comune in Italy — and then what it gets you once you are there.
By air
1 h 4 min
drive to the nearest airport
Pescara PSR · 83 km
Flies to the UK, Belgium, Germany, Romania and 5 more.
9 countries in all.
Perugia PEG · 87 km
Flies to the UK, Albania, Belgium, Malta and 3 more.
7 countries in all.
Ancona Falconara AOI · 68 km
Flies to Albania, Germany, the UK, Belgium and 2 more.
6 countries in all.
Countries with a scheduled route that carried real passengers in 2024, from Eurostat. Airlines add and drop routes; check before you book a life around one.
By road
29 min
drive to the motorway (unnamed toll gate)
By rail
34 min
drive to the nearest station (Ascoli Piceno)
Milan
direct from Civitanova Marche
3 h 28 min
33 km to that station
Bari
direct from Giulianova
3 h 2 min
44 km to that station
Fastest direct train in the published Trenitalia timetable — one train, no changes. A city missing from this list is one you can still reach, but only by changing. Italo is not in the open feed, so on Milan and Naples the real best may be quicker.
How it scores
Each line is one question, answered from measured data and rated from poor to excellent. A low mark does not mean a bad village. It means you would have to drive, or wait, or put up with something.
Poor
Daily needs in the village itself. Most daily errands mean leaving the village
Fair
How reachable the outside world is. Reachable, with some planning
Poor
Is the population holding or draining away. The population is draining away
Poor
Signs of life: bars, places to eat, places to stay. Very little open in the evening
Good
Sun, winter, summer. Bright, mild and long in the shoulder months
Fair
Fibre reach and measured speed. Fibre reaches much of the comune
Very good
Air quality against WHO guidelines. Clean air by WHO guidelines
Very good
Foreigners already living there. An established foreign community
Is Monte Rinaldo the right one, though?
It is one of 5,664 villages measured the same way. Answer six questions and we will rank every one of them against what you actually want.
Who else is here
Resident foreigners by citizenship, from ISTAT's 1 January 2025 count. Residents, not holiday-home owners — someone who registered with the town hall.
Foreign residents
9.7% of Monte Rinaldo
30
From northern and western Europe, or the anglosphere
3.3% of residents
10
Largest groups
Romania
9
Pakistan
7
Netherlands
4
Belgium
2
Finland
2
Germany
2
A year here
January averages 4.8°C and July 24.0°C.
34days
Above 30°C
29days
Of frost
123days
Clear days
The air
The line is the yearly limit the World Health Organization recommends staying under — not a line below which the air is safe. A bar that crosses it means the air here is above what the WHO advises.
PM2.5
8.3 µg/m³ · 1.66× guideline
Above the WHO annual guideline (marked)
PM10
11.8 µg/m³ · 0.79× guideline
Within the WHO annual guideline (marked)
NO₂
3.0 µg/m³ · 0.29× guideline
Within the WHO annual guideline (marked)
A note on the data
33 days a year exceed the WHO daily PM2.5 guideline. That is normal for central Italy and worth knowing anyway.
Daily life
Counted inside the municipal boundary, from OpenStreetMap.
1
Bars & cafés
1
Post offices
2
Sports grounds
Nothing else is mapped here yet — which is a gap in OpenStreetMap, not necessarily a gap in the village.
A note on the data
Only 10 features are mapped in this comune. Anything not listed above may simply be unrecorded rather than absent, so we show what was counted and leave the rest blank.
What there is to do
Not how you leave — what is within reach on a free day. Every distance here is a straight line, and in the Apennines the road is much longer.
The sea
Near the coast
22 km away
Measured to open water against the coastline itself — which is not the same as a beach you can park at.
The nearest lift
Lifts within reach
23 km away
unnamed lift/piste. A lift or a marked downhill piste in OpenStreetMap. Small Apennine stations open and close with the snow.
Ski areas within reach
Named ski areas in OpenStreetMap, biggest first rather than nearest. Lift counts are aerialways mapped inside the area — drag lifts included, so a number in the single digits is a village station, not a resort.
A note on the data
No sagre yet. Italy has no national open dataset of village festivals — Lombardia publishes one, Abruzzo, Marche and Umbria do not, so for now the calendar of a 475 m village is something you have to ask the comune for.
The honest part
Counting births and deaths only, the population would change by -26.9% over twenty years. It assumes nobody moves in or out, so treat it as the direction of travel rather than a prediction.
Mean age
52.9
Over 65
36 %
Under 15
8 %
A note on the data
Only 10 points of interest are mapped in OpenStreetMap here. Zero counts below are as likely to mean 'not mapped yet' as 'not there'.
Who it fits
The same village suits three people very differently, because they want different things from it. Where we are missing data that one of them cares about, we say so — a verdict built on less is worth less.
Fair
Based on 86% of what matters to them
Needs bandwidth and an airport more than it needs a pharmacy. Will trade services for cheap space and a fast train.
We have not measured house prices in this village, so this verdict leaves them out.
Thin
Based on 82% of what matters to them
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.
We have not measured house prices in this village, so this verdict leaves them out.
Thin
Based on 64% of what matters to them
Chasing price per square metre. Tolerates isolation, but a village that is emptying fast is a house that will never resell.
We have not measured house prices in this village, so this verdict leaves them out.
Nearby
Closest first, measured in a straight line. They may be over a regional border — a border is not a distance.
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Compare on one thing
AGCOM — ultra-broadband coverage by municipality
geo.agcom.it
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Eurostat air transport statistics, and OurAirports
ec.europa.eu
2024-12-31
ISTAT — municipal accessibility to transport infrastructure (2023)
www.istat.it
2022-12-31
ISTAT — resident population by citizenship
demo.istat.it
2025-01-01
ISTAT POSAS (residents by age and sex, per municipality)
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 municipality) 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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OpenStreetMap (Overpass)
www.openstreetmap.org
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OSRM routing over OpenStreetMap
127.0.0.1
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OSRM routing over OpenStreetMap
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Trenitalia timetable via the Italian National Access Point (NeTEx)
www.cciss.it
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Wikidata (P1082/P2046/P2044, sourced from ISTAT)
www.wikidata.org
2008-01-01
Wikidata (P1082/P2046/P2044, sourced from ISTAT)
it.wikipedia.org
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Wikidata P18 / Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
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