Lignano Sabbiadoro: a seaside second home, with the numbers
In 2025 Lignano hosted 537.5 tourist nights per resident, almost all of them in summer. It works for a beach flat to use or let in season; anyone planning to live here year-round should weigh the quiet winter, the hospital in Latisana and patchy fibre.
Published 22 October 2026
Driving times
- Udine
- 1 h 03
- Trieste
- 1 h 23
- Trieste Airport
- 59 min
- Klagenfurt
- 2 h 32
- The nearest sea
- 4 min
- The nearest slopes
- 1 h 40
- The motorway
- 24 min
- A station with trains
- 25 min
Health care
- 24h emergency room
- 24 min
- zone: 24 min
- Hub hospital
- 57 min
- zone: 42 min
Sunshine
- Direct sun on 21 December
- 8 h 39 min
- zone: 8 h 39 min
- Hours taken by the mountains
- 1 min
Prices (OMI)
- Standard homes
- €3,040/m²
- zone: €1,200/m²
- Detached houses
- €2,725/m²
- zone: €1,240/m²
- m² for €200,000
- 65 m²
- zone: 165 m²
- Rent
- €16.4/m² a month
Climate (1991–2020)
- January average
- 5.8 °C
- July highs
- 28.7 °C
- Rain per year
- 980 mm
- Frost days
- 22
Risks and broadband
- Seismic zone
- 3
- Buildings in flood area (P2)
- 8.8%
- Households with fibre
- 13.1%
- zone: 13.1%
Who lives here
- Residents
- 6,888
- Since 2001
- +17%
- Average age
- 49.1
- Empty homes (2011)
- 88%
Minutes of direct sun, day by day
direct sun with a flat horizon
A town built for summer
No town in the region records more tourist nights than Lignano Sabbiadoro: 3,702,600 in 2025, compared with 1,665,300 in Trieste — 537.5 for every resident. 72% fall between June and August and just 3% between December and March; a share of 66% comes from foreign guests. Of the nights foreigners spend in their own homes in Lignano, Austrian residents account for 58% and German residents for 30% (Bank of Italy survey on international tourism, 2021–2025; small sample).
Homes tell the same story: the 2011 census recorded 88% of Lignano's dwellings with nobody registered as living there. Yet Lignano is not emptying: it has 6,888 residents, 17% more than in 2001, and a mean age (49.1) below the regional median (49.7).
Hospital and broadband
Round-the-clock A&E means a drive to the hospital in Latisana: 24 min without traffic; in summer, with beach traffic, it can take longer. In town, a first-aid point (punto di primo intervento) works only during the bathing season. The nearest hub hospital is in Pordenone (57 min); the highest-level emergency department is in Udine (1 h 01).
Remote workers should look at the connection first: full fibre reaches 13.1% of households, against a regional median of 77.9%. More: hospitals and A&E.
Climate: warm nights, little rain — with a caveat
No town has more tropical nights than Lignano Sabbiadoro: 59 a year with a low above 20 °C. Frost is rare: 22 days a year, with January at 5.8 °C on average. Lignano Sabbiadoro also has the fewest rainy days in the region: 84.
A caveat: ARPA's climate grid stops short of the town hall on the shore, so the values come from the nearest valid cell; we rate them as medium reliability.
Buying: the highest prices, a busy market
| # | Municipality | Zone | Standard homes (€/m²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lignano Sabbiadoro | Lignano, Latisana and Marano | €3,040/m² |
| 2 | Sappada | Carnia and Sappada | €2,450/m² |
| 3 | Grado | Grado and Aquileia | €2,200/m² |
| 4 | Trieste | Trieste and the Karst | €2,100/m² |
| 5 | Duino Aurisina | Trieste and the Karst | €2,040/m² |
| 6 | Muggia | Trieste and the Karst | €1,975/m² |
| 7 | Sgonico | Trieste and the Karst | €1,775/m² |
| 8 | San Dorligo della Valle | Trieste and the Karst | €1,660/m² |
OMI values standard homes at €3,040/m², with zones between €2,400/m² and €4,500/m²; villas are quoted at €2,725/m². Sales in 2025: 657 homes, more than in Gorizia (591). OMI rents reach €16.4/m² a month, but mostly reflect seasonal lets: the theoretical gross yield of 6.5% ignores tax, costs and empty months.
Second homes pay the regional ILIA instead of IMU: 0.91%, or 0.70% once it is declared online as the owner's first «second home» (the deadline is the end of June after the tax year; each owner picks just one in FVG). Listings in Lignano also appear on the group's dedicated site: LignanoVillas.
Questions
What does a flat in Lignano Sabbiadoro cost?
OMI's median for the first half of 2026 is €3,040/m², ranging from €2,400/m² to €4,500/m² by zone. €200,000 buys about 65 m².
Where is the nearest A&E to Lignano?
At Latisana hospital: 24 min by road, traffic excluded. A summer-only first-aid point opens in town too.
Can you live in Lignano all year round?
Yes: it has 6,888 residents and has grown since 2001. But only 3% of the year's tourist nights come in December to March, so in winter the town belongs to the people who live there.
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:
- Regione FVG — Servizio statistica, movimento turistico per comune (arrivi e presenze 2023–2025, mensile) (data as of 2026-10-22) · dati regionali, riuso con citazione (v. note/turismo.md)
- Elaborazioni FriuliVillas su dati Banca d'Italia, Indagine sul turismo internazionale dell'Italia, microdati 2021–2025 (tabelle pivot, file del 20/03/2026) (data as of 2026-10-22) · riuso con la citazione chiesta dalla Banca d'Italia
- ISTAT — Censimento della popolazione e delle abitazioni 2011: abitazioni occupate e non occupate, epoca di costruzione degli edifici (data as of 2026-10-22) · CC BY 4.0
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- 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
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- 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)
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- Comune di Lignano Sabbiadoro, delibera n. 86 del 22/12/2025: aliquote ILIA 2026 (Portale ILIA della Regione FVG) (data as of 2026-10-22) · atto ufficiale (art. 5 L. 633/1941); le aliquote sono fatti
- 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, estratto Geofabrik del 20/10/2026) dalla sede municipale alle spiagge, ai poli sciistici, a Pordenone e Gorizia, agli svincoli autostradali e alle stazioni con treni (orari Trenitalia/FUC verificati per un giorno feriale) (data as of 2026-10-22) · dati © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL
- 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
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