Your house's identity card: the sun from the exact spot
Type the address: from that exact spot we rebuild the line of ridges and a full year of direct sunshine, beside the town's figures. It is the first question mountain buyers ask, and listings never answer it.
Published 22 October 2026
The address is only used to find the spot on the map (the search goes through Photon, the OpenStreetMap address service); the calculation receives coordinates, and nothing is kept in our records.
What it computes
- The horizon, from 2 m above the ground, in 720 directions of 60 km, on the Copernicus GLO-30 model: within 3 km a point roughly every 30 m, beyond that a grid of 90 m that keeps the highest ridge.
- The sun, minute by minute through 2026 (NOAA algorithm): a minute counts when the top of the disc clears the ridge.
- The result: hours on 21 December, first and last ray, sunless days and days under three hours, the peak shading from the south, the chart. Beside it, the town's figures, which belong to the town, not the house.
The coarse grid errs, if at all, on the side of shade: in Claut the spot calculation at the town hall finds 15 sunless days, the town figure 14.
What it does not compute
- Nearby trees and buildings. The terrain is cleared of anything narrower than about 150 m, so the block opposite or the neighbour's walnut tree casts no shade in the sum. Check those on site.
- Cloud. This is clear-sky sunshine, not a foggy December.
- The floor. The point sits at eye level in the garden, not on the third floor.
- The address. Our server looks it up on Photon, an address search engine built on OpenStreetMap data; only coordinates go on.
Who it is for
Sellers: December sunshine is what mountain buyers ask about first and hardly ever find written down.
Buyers: to compare two houses in one village before a viewing. Whole towns are in the sun tool and the guide winter sun.
Questions
How can I tell how much winter sun a house gets?
From where the house stands: the ridges around it and the sun's track, day by day. Here it is done from the address, under clear skies.
Is the address I type stored?
No. It is only used to find the spot on the map: the calculation receives rounded coordinates, and the answer is the same for the whole neighbourhood.
Why does the calculated sun differ from what I see?
The calculation ignores trees, nearby buildings and cloud, and looks from garden height: it shows how much sun the mountains let through.
Sources and method
Written by Claude, TriesteVillas' AI assistant, from the data below; checked twice against the sources before publication.
The figures on this page come from:
- FriuliVillas — «La carta d'identità della casa»: orizzonte e sole calcolati sul punto dell'indirizzo, terreno Copernicus GLO-30 a 1″ entro 3 km e a 3″ oltre (col massimo delle 9 celle), algoritmo NOAA minuto per minuto, anno 2026 (data as of 2026-10-22) · terreno: licenza Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA)
- FriuliVillas — controllo del calcolo sul punto alle sedi municipali di Venzone, Bordano, Udine e Claut, confrontato con il calcolo del sole dei 215 comuni (22/10/2026) (data as of 2026-10-22) · terreno: licenza Copernicus DEM GLO-30
- Ore di sole diretto calcolate da FriuliVillas sull'orizzonte del modello del terreno Copernicus GLO-30 (raggi fino a 60 km, curvatura e rifrazione) e sulla posizione del Sole (algoritmo NOAA), dalla sede municipale a 2 m dal suolo, cielo sereno. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Copernicus e l'ESA non sono responsabili di questo uso dei dati né lo approvano. (data as of 2026-10-22) · licenza Copernicus DEM GLO-30
- OSRM (router.project-osrm.org) su dati OpenStreetMap — tempi in auto senza traffico dalla sede municipale (data as of 2026-10-07) · dati © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL
- Tempi in auto senza traffico (OSRM su OpenStreetMap) dalla sede municipale ai pronto soccorso e agli ospedali hub; elenco delle strutture dalle aziende sanitarie ASUFC, ASUGI, ASFO e dalla L.R. 22/2019 (data as of 2026-10-22) · dati © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL; fatti dagli atti pubblici
- Agenzia delle Entrate — Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare (OMI): quotazioni per zona e tipologia; valore per comune = mediana dei punti medi delle zone OMI, stato normale (data as of 2026-10-22) · riuso con citazione della fonte (Agenzia delle Entrate – OMI)
- Agenzia delle Entrate — OMI, Statistiche regionali Friuli Venezia Giulia 2025: compravendite (NTN) e intensità del mercato (IMI) per comune (data as of 2026-10-22) · riuso con citazione della fonte (Agenzia delle Entrate – OMI)
- Dipartimento della Protezione civile — classificazione sismica dei comuni (aggiornata al 31/05/2025) (data as of 2026-10-22) · CC BY 4.0
- ISPRA IdroGEO — indicatori di rischio per comune (frane: mosaicatura PAI 2024; alluvioni: mosaicatura 2020) (data as of 2026-10-22) · CC BY 4.0
- AGCOM — Broadband Map, copertura delle reti fisse per comune (rilevazione al 05/10/2026); Infratel Italia — piano Banda ultra larga (data as of 2026-10-22) · CC BY 4.0; Infratel: riuso con citazione

- ARPA FVG – OSMER: normali climatiche 1991–2020 sulla griglia regionale a 500 m e sulle stazioni (temperature, pioggia, gelo, caldo, neve, vento) (data as of 2026-10-22) · ARPA FVG - OSMER e GRN, CC BY-SA 3.0 IT: i valori del clima ripubblicati qui restano sotto la stessa licenza
- Copernicus DEM GLO-30 — produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The organisations in charge of the Copernicus programme by law or by delegation do not incur any liability for any use of the Copernicus WorldDEM-30. (2026-10-22)
- NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory — Solar Calculator, calculation details (sun position; code rewritten by FriuliVillas) (2026-10-22)
- Photon (Komoot) — address search on data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) (2026-10-22)