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Living in San Daniele del Friuli: a hospital in town, the hills, and patchy broadband

San Daniele has a round-the-clock emergency department 3 min from the town hall, on a hill 248 m above sea level, and flats are valued at €950/m². The most tangible drawback is the internet: full fibre reaches just 2.2% of households.

Published 22 October 2026

Driving times

Udine
35 min
Trieste
1 h 26
Trieste Airport
1 h 02
Klagenfurt
1 h 42
The nearest sea
1 h 09
The nearest slopes
1 h 01
The motorway
17 min
A station with trains
20 min

Health care

24h emergency room
3 min
zone: 16 min
Hub hospital
33 min
zone: 23 min

Sunshine

Direct sun on 21 December
8 h 32 min
zone: 8 h 34 min
Hours taken by the mountains
4 min

Prices (OMI)

Standard homes
€950/m²
zone: €825/m²
Detached houses
€825/m²
zone: €775/m²
m² for €200,000
210 m²
zone: 240 m²
Rent
€3.8/m² a month

Climate (1991–2020)

January average
3.2 °C
July highs
29.1 °C
Rain per year
1,630 mm
Frost days
75

Risks and broadband

Seismic zone
2
Buildings in flood area (P2)
0.5%
Households with fibre
2.2%
zone: 73.8%
BroadbandMap AGCOM, CC BY 4.0

Who lives here

Residents
7,935
Since 2001
+0%
Average age
49.3
Empty homes (2011)
18%
The horizon from San Daniele del Friuli and the path of the sun
10°20°30°40°50°60°21 Jun21 Mar21 Feb21 Jan21 DecESESSWW

Minutes of direct sun, day by day

direct sun with a flat horizon

San Daniele del Friuli among the 215 towns: OMI home prices€520/m² – €650/m²€650/m² – €750/m²€750/m² – €830/m²€830/m² – €910/m²≥ €910/m²Each dot is a town hall

What it offers, and to whom

Hill country without giving up a hospital, and an easy approach from the north: from the Gemona-Osoppo junction on the Tarvisio motorway you are in town in 17 min. Udine is 35 min away, Munich 4 h 43. No trains, though: the nearest station is Gemona, 20 min by car.

Up here summer weighs less than on the plain, 35 days with highs over 30 °C against 39 in Udine; the trade-off is more frosty nights (75) and more rain (1,630 mm a year). December sun is almost unobstructed: 8 h 32 min on the 21st.

Visitors come and go quickly: 37,100 overnight stays in 2025, but guests leave after 2.0 nights on average. For short lets, weekends matter more than a season.

A hospital in town, the hub half an hour away

San Daniele's hospital is a district hospital with an emergency department open 24 hours a day: for a fracture, a fall or a fever that will not break, help is in town. For heart attacks and strokes the regional network takes patients straight to the hub in Udine, 33 min away, and that is the figure that counts for anyone with a cardiac risk. Emergency helicopters take off from Pasian di Prato, 19 km in a straight line.

Prices: the centre, the hamlets, the ham-curing district

The OMI splits the municipality into 6 zones; values for flats in 2026:

  • the town centre: €900/m² to €1,250/m²;
  • the outlying hamlets: €750/m² to €1,000/m²;
  • the zone the OMI database calls, literally, the «prosciuttifici», the ham-curing plants: €670/m² to €940/m².

Detached houses come in below flats at €825/m², and letting at the OMI rent of €3.8/m² a month would return 4.8% gross, in theory. Sales grew in 2025 in line with the larger hill towns nearby. The purchase process: buying a house in Italy.

The limits: fibre, the hub, earthquakes

San Daniele del FriuliFagagnaMajanoRagognaRive d'ArcanoBuja
Standard homes (€/m²)€950/m²€920/m²€825/m²€780/m²€780/m²€775/m²
24h emergency room3 min11 min9 min7 min8 min16 min
Hub hospital33 min21 min27 min36 min27 min24 min
From Udine35 min23 min31 min39 min29 min28 min
Fibre to the home2.2%34.0%97.4%95.5%20.6%18.4%

Broadband is the biggest gap. According to AGCOM, the communications regulator (October 2026), fibre runs all the way into just 2.2% of homes; there is fibre to the street cabinet, with copper for the last stretch. Next door, Majano is at 97.4% and Ragogna at 95.5%: remote workers should look beyond the town to the street itself.

The 1976 earthquake reached intensity 8-9 on the MCS scale here; today the town is in seismic zone 2. For a house built before then, ask for the records of any structural work. Flooding, on the other hand, affects few homes: 0.5% of buildings sit in medium-hazard flood areas, against a regional median of 4.9%.

Questions

Is there an emergency department in San Daniele del Friuli?

Yes: the town hospital's A&E is open around the clock, 3 min from the town hall. Heart-attack and stroke patients are taken straight to Udine, 33 min away.

What do houses cost in San Daniele del Friuli?

In the centre the OMI gives €900/m² to €1,250/m², in the hamlets €750/m² to €1,000/m². Taken as a whole, the town comes out at €950/m² (flats) and €825/m² (detached houses).

Is there fibre broadband in San Daniele del Friuli?

Mostly only to the street cabinet: AGCOM puts fibre-to-the-home coverage at 2.2% (October 2026). Neighbouring towns do far better: Majano 97.4%, Ragogna 95.5%.

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:

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