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Tarvisio: what living or owning a home here is really like

Tarvisio sits 45 min from Klagenfurt and lives off winter almost as much as summer. It counts 143 frost days a year, and at the winter solstice the town hall sees 3 h 53 min of direct sun. It suits skiers who want Austria close by, less so anyone after a mild winter or an Italian A&E minutes away.

Published 22 October 2026

Driving times

Udine
1 h 07
Trieste
1 h 52
Trieste Airport
1 h 28
Klagenfurt
45 min
The nearest sea
1 h 35
The nearest slopes
1 min
The motorway
5 min
A station with trains
6 min

Health care

24h emergency room
44 min
zone: 33 min
Hub hospital
1 h 05
zone: 58 min

Sunshine

Direct sun on 21 December
3 h 53 min
zone: 3 h 47 min
Hours taken by the mountains
4 h 40 min

Prices (OMI)

Standard homes
€1,290/m²
zone: €720/m²
Detached houses
€1,300/m²
zone: €795/m²
m² for €200,000
155 m²
zone: 280 m²
Rent
€4.4/m² a month

Climate (1991–2020)

January average
−2.1 °C
July highs
25.0 °C
Rain per year
1,490 mm
Frost days
143

Risks and broadband

Seismic zone
3
Buildings in flood area (P2)
3.9%
Households with fibre
20.6%
zone: 90.6%
BroadbandMap AGCOM, CC BY 4.0

Who lives here

Residents
3,903
Since 2001
-24%
Average age
50.8
Empty homes (2011)
49%
The horizon from Tarvisio and the path of the sun
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Minutes of direct sun, day by day

direct sun with a flat horizon

Tarvisio 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

A town with two high seasons

In 2025 Tarvisio counted 234,500 tourist nights: 37% in winter, 38% in summer. The average stay is 2.3 nights, so weekends rather than long holidays, and 43% of nights are spent by foreign guests. Kranjska Gora in Slovenia is 22 min away, Nassfeld in Austria 33 min. The cross-border Mi.Co.Tra. train (Udine–Villach) calls at Tarvisio Boscoverde twice a day each way, through from Trieste at weekends and on holidays.

The other side: in 2011, 49% of homes had no resident living in them, and off-season this is a small place. Only 20.6% of households can connect to full fibre (FTTH), so remote workers should check the exact address.

Winter: real cold, short sun

No town in the region has more frost days than Tarvisio: 143 a year on the ARPA FVG climate grid (1991–2020), against 111 in Klagenfurt. Weather stations in the town record fewer frost days than the grid: the exact count depends on the spot, but the scale is Carinthia's.

Sunlight is the real constraint. At the solstice the mountains leave the town hall 3 h 53 min of direct sun, out of the 8 h 33 min a flat horizon would give. That is one point: 250 metres away the figure runs from 2 h 55 min to 5 h 7 min, so the slope matters more than the town. By late February things look different — 8 h 56 min on the 21st. Method: winter sun.

The nearest hospital is in Austria

Driving without traffic, Klinikum Villach and its emergency departments are 26 min away. In Italy, 24-hour A&E means Tolmezzo, 44 min away, and the hub hospital in Udine is 1 h 05 away: the times to weigh if you move here. More: hospitals and A&E.

Buying: wide price range, land register, ILIA

The median OMI value for standard homes is €1,290/m²; across the town's 5 OMI zones it runs from €550/m² to €2,400/m². In 2025 the town recorded 187 sales, 3.6% of its housing: no mountain town with OMI data has a livelier market than Tarvisio.

Two rules to know before completion: Tarvisio uses the land register (sistema tavolare) inherited from Austrian times: you become the owner when the land-register judge orders your entry, not when you sign at the notary. And Friuli Venezia Giulia levies its own ILIA instead of IMU. For a second home it is 0.70% if you register it with the region online, as your designated first «second home» (deadline: end of June the year after), otherwise 1.06%. Each owner can name only one such home in the whole region.

Questions

What do homes in Tarvisio cost per square metre?

According to OMI (first half of 2026), the median for standard homes is €1,290/m², with zones from €550/m² to €2,400/m². They describe ordinary homes, not prime ones.

Where is the nearest hospital to Tarvisio?

Klinikum Villach in Austria, 26 min without traffic. In Italy: Tolmezzo for A&E (44 min), Udine for the hub hospital (1 h 05).

How cold does Tarvisio get in winter?

January averages −2.1 °C, with mean lows of −6.8 °C, and there are 143 frost days a year (ARPA FVG, 1991–2020 normals).

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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