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Living in Tolmezzo: Carnia's largest town, with the hospital on hand

With 9,702 residents Tolmezzo is the most populous municipality in Carnia, and its A&E is the nearest one for 39 municipalities. Mountain life without giving up a hospital and schools; prices are above the valley villages', and fibre to the home is the exception.

Published 22 October 2026

Driving times

Udine
42 min
Trieste
1 h 27
Trieste Airport
1 h 03
Klagenfurt
1 h 26
The nearest sea
1 h 11
The nearest slopes
28 min
The motorway
9 min
A station with trains
16 min

Health care

24h emergency room
2 min
zone: 21 min
Hub hospital
41 min
zone: 59 min

Sunshine

Direct sun on 21 December
7 h 23 min
zone: 5 h 9 min
Hours taken by the mountains
1 h 10 min

Prices (OMI)

Standard homes
€930/m²
zone: €740/m²
Detached houses
€820/m²
zone: €670/m²
m² for €200,000
215 m²
zone: 270 m²
Rent
€3.6/m² a month

Climate (1991–2020)

January average
2.3 °C
July highs
27.9 °C
Rain per year
2,140 mm
Frost days
84

Risks and broadband

Seismic zone
2
Buildings in flood area (P2)
2.3%
Households with fibre
13.8%
zone: 91.0%
BroadbandMap AGCOM, CC BY 4.0

Who lives here

Residents
9,702
Since 2001
-9%
Average age
49.2
Empty homes (2011)
12%
The horizon from Tolmezzo and the path of the sun
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Minutes of direct sun, day by day

direct sun with a flat horizon

Tolmezzo 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

Carnia's town

Tolmezzo has 7 upper secondary school sites; none of the other 27 municipalities in Carnia has one. It is lived in all year round: at the 2011 census just 12% of its homes lacked a resident household, against a Carnia median of 50%.

Tolmezzo has no railway of its own; the nearest station is in Carnia, a hamlet of Venzone: trains run to Udine, and the Mi.Co.Tra. crosses to Villach. Zoncolan's ski slopes are 28 min away. The housing is older than around Gemona: 62% of its residential buildings pre-date 1971.

A hospital in town

Tolmezzo's hospital is a general hospital of the Friuli Centrale health authority: a 24-hour emergency department, plus medical, surgical, orthopaedic and intensive care beds (Ministry of Health, 2023). In the stroke network it is a spoke hospital with CT, CT angiography and MRI.

  • It is the closest A&E for 39 municipalities, from Carnia to the Tarvisio area.
  • Heart attacks and strokes are taken to the hub hospital in Udine, 41 min from here.
  • Air rescue: the helicopter base at Pasian di Prato is 43 km away in a straight line.

Regional picture: hospitals and A&E.

Cold, fibre, earthquakes: the trade-offs

  • Cold: January averages 2.3 °C, with average lows of −1.9 °C. Colder than the plain, milder than most of Carnia (median 0.6 °C).
  • Sun: on the shortest day it lasts 7 h 23 min, from 08:17 to 15:40; the peak that ends the afternoon is a long way off, 7.5 km to the south-west. Within 250 m, though, it varies between 5 h 32 min and 7 h 31 min: the neighbourhood matters.
  • Fibre: it is the only municipality in Carnia where fibre to the home reaches fewer than half of households. If you work remotely, check the address (fibre town by town).
  • Earthquakes: in 2010 Tolmezzo's classification changed, and zone 1 became zone 2. In 1976 it recorded intensity 8 on the MCS scale; its highest ever, 9, dates from the earthquake of 1348. With so many pre-1971 houses, always request the structural documents (questions to ask).

Prices and the market

The typical flat is valued at €930/m² by the OMI, against a Carnia median of €740/m²: you pay for the town. The town's OMI zones run between €790/m² and €1,200/m². In 2025, 104 homes were sold, -19.1% on the year before. €200,000 buys 215 m²; the valley villages give more space, but no hospital round the corner.

Questions

Is there an A&E in Tolmezzo?

Yes. The emergency department never closes and is 2 min from the town hall. For heart attacks and strokes patients are taken on to Udine, the hub, 41 min away.

Are houses in Tolmezzo expensive?

For Carnia, yes. The OMI, the Italian Revenue Agency's property observatory, gives €930/m² for flats and €820/m² for detached houses, against a Carnia median of €740/m².

Is Tolmezzo cold in winter?

January averages 2.3 °C, and 84 days a year have a minimum below zero (1991–2020), against 67 in Udine. Almost all the rest of Carnia is colder.

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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