Sample report
Near El Rodeo
Finca in Andalusia, Spain. Every number is derived from official data.
| Coordinates | 36.67116, -4.73345 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 147 m above sea level |
| Municipality | Coín |
| District | Málaga |
| Region | Andalucía |
| Land register reference | 29042A01100074 |
| Ground data near the plot | measured every 5 m |
| Report date | 2026-10-20 |
Other sample reports: 4 ha of land in Dordogne, Alpine meadow in Tyrol, Lakeshore in Karelia
The view
View 1.9 km
Short view the view runs 23 km to the west; towards the north-west the ground closes it at 120 m
| Longest view | 22.8 km, west |
|---|---|
| Shortest view | 120 m, north-west |
| Ground in view within 5 km | 12.2% |
This is the shape of the land alone. Woods, hedges, barns and the neighbours' houses block a view too, and none of them are in a model of the bare ground, so a plot can be far more shut in on the ground than this shows. The edges of the shaded area are approximate.
Local area
Village and town 3 min
El Rodeo 3 min
| Town: El Rodeo | 784 m W 3 min |
|---|
Drive times are estimates without traffic.
People nearby Suburb
3,000 people within 1 km, 29,000 within 5 km
| Kind of place | Suburbs or peri-urban area |
|---|---|
| People within 1 km | About 3,000 |
| People within 5 km | About 29,000 |
| Buildings on the map within 1 km | Not shown |
The map is missing many buildings here, so they are not counted. The kind of place is the EU's degree of urbanisation for the 1 km square the plot is in, in the method's own terms. People are from the European Commission's population grid for 2020. It spreads census counts over 100 m squares, so a count for a small area is an estimate. Checked against French tax records, the 1 km figure was within a third of the real count on six plots in ten. The 5 km figure was within a tenth on two in three. Holiday homes and farms can stand where nobody is registered as living. Buildings are those on the map, including barns, garages and any on the plot itself.
Shops/services 2–32 min
The drive to the nearest of each kind
| Supermarket: Carrefour | 2 min 0.8 km |
|---|---|
| Fuel: Estación de Servicio La Trocha | 2 min 0.7 km |
| Restaurant | 2 min 0.7 km |
| Pharmacy: Farmacia José Manuel Torres López | 2 min 1.3 km |
| School: Colegio Público Jiménez Granados | 5 min 3.0 km |
| Doctor: Policlinica Lacibis | 6 min 3.8 km |
| Nursery: Centro de Educación Infantil Dulces | 11 min 7.9 km |
| Hospital: Hospital Valle del Guadalhorce | 11 min 9.2 km |
| Beautician: Mijas Natural | 24 min 19.5 km |
| Hairdresser: Peluquería María Hollywood - Alhaurín de la Torre | 21 min 24.1 km |
| Vet: ONE Mijas | 32 min 24.5 km |
Places within 10 km. Each row is the quickest to reach of the three nearest. Drive times are estimates without traffic.
Bodies of water 933 m
Nearest swimming pool, in a straight line
| Swimming pool: Piscina Municipal | 933 m |
|---|---|
| River: Rio Pereilas | 2.0 km |
| Pond (0.4 ha) | 5.2 km |
| Lake (1.0 ha) | 14.6 km |
| Beach: Playa Torreblanca-Carvajal | 16.7 km |
| Sea | 16.7 km |
| Water park: CostaWaterPark | 16.9 km |
| Reservoir: Embalse de El Tomillar (14.0 ha) | 17.5 km |
| Bathing spot | 20.3 km |
Lakes, rivers, the sea, beaches and public pools from OpenStreetMap. Distances are to the nearest shore or bank. Water is listed where a road or path on the map comes to its shore. Water in golf courses, campsites and hotel grounds is not listed. Who may use that way, whether swimming is allowed and water quality are not included.
Emergency 4 min
Nearest fire station
| Fire station | 4 min 2.3 km |
|---|---|
| Ambulance station | Not available here |
Times are for a car at ordinary speeds from the station on the map. They are the drive alone, so help takes longer than this to arrive. They do not include the time to call out a crew. Many rural fire brigades are volunteers who come to the station from home. A station on the map is not a promise of cover. The emergency control room decides which crew to send, and it may come from further away. Not every station is on the map, and one built recently may be missing, so there may be a nearer one. Stations in another country are not included. Each row is the quickest to reach of the three nearest. Drive times are estimates without traffic.
Local economy €14,700
Households here have about 14,700 euro a year after tax, 80% of the national average, population growing
| Household income | 14,700 euro a year after tax 80% of the national average (2023) |
|---|---|
| Unemployment | 15.2% 145% of the national average (2025) |
| Population change | +9.2 people a year for every 1,000 living here (2024) |
| Area | Andalucía |
These figures describe the area around the plot. A district covers a few thousand square kilometres and a region covers much more. One village can differ from the average here. Income is what households have left after tax and benefits. Income and unemployment are published for regions, population change for districts. From EU regional statistics.
Visitors Busy
This district takes about 17.1 visitor nights a year for every resident, most of them around August
| Visitor nights a year | 30,600,019 |
|---|---|
| Per resident | 17.1 |
| Busiest month | August (14% of the year) |
| Across the country | 10.4 a resident |
| Area | Andalucía |
Counts nights booked at hotels, guest houses, holiday lets and campsites. People staying in their own holiday home or with family are not counted. The real number of visitors is higher. Figures cover a whole district, so one busy lake can raise the figure for villages far from it. The months come from the larger region around the district. From EU tourism statistics.
Annoyances
Noise 49 dB
Traffic clearly audible outdoors through the day and evening
| Estimated level, at the pin | 49 dB, noticeable |
|---|---|
| Uncertainty | ± 3 dB |
| Quietest side | west-north-west |
| Regional road: Carretera de Casapalma a Marbella | 594 m 44 dB |
| Local road: Carretera de Cártama a Coín | 403 m 42 dB |
| Regional road: Carretera Coín-Churriana | 0.9 km 40 dB |
| Local road | 704 m 37 dB |
| Regional road | 1.2 km 37 dB |
| Regional road | 1.3 km 37 dB |
Estimated from mapped roads and railways and the shape of the land. This is a model. It is not a measurement. Lanes and farm tracks are not included.
Aircraft 19.8 km
Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport, not in line with a runway
| Nearest airport with flights | Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport, 19.8 km |
|---|---|
| Commercial flights | 177,569 a year (2025) |
| In line with a runway | No |
| Nearest airfield | none within 5 km |
Worked out from where runways are and how many flights an airport handles. Aircraft land in a straight line along the runway, and where official noise maps exist most of the land they show as loud is in line with a runway in this way. On those maps about a quarter of the land in line with a runway is loud. Aircraft that turn after take-off are not followed. Flights are commercial passenger flights only, so freight, business, training and military flying are not counted. Swiss maps of small airfields show light aircraft reaching the planning limit for noise a median of 1.6 km from the runway. Helicopter landing sites and military low-flying areas are not included. Source: runways from OurAirports; commercial passenger flights from Eurostat.
Nuisances 3 in view
Nearest in view: regional road, 593 m to the east-south-east 2 hidden by hills
| Regional road: Carretera de Casapalma a Marbella (x19) | 593 m ESE |
|---|---|
| Local road: Avenida de Fuengirola (x35) | 1.8 km WSW |
| Industrial area: Enagas (x2) | 2.3 km ESE |
| High-voltage line: Línea de alta tensión Cártama - Jordana (x4) | 1.2 km NW hidden by the land |
| Wastewater plant | 2.2 km NE hidden by the land |
One row per kind, nearest first. Features hidden from the plot by the land are marked.
Bites and stings All year
Mosquitoes and ticks, all year
| Mosquitoes | all year pond 363 m |
|---|---|
| Ticks | October to May woods 1.2 km can carry Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis |
| Pine processionary | recorded in 2009, 74 records within 10 km |
Processionary caterpillars have hairs that cause rashes and harm dogs. Listed with what lives nearest first, then by how many months it is active. Months are modelled from daily temperatures on a 9 km grid, adjusted to the plot's height and the lie of the land. Checked against field counts at 7 tick, 5 mosquito and 5 midge study sites. Highland midges are shown where they are recorded in the region. The first and last month of a season can be a month out. Distances are in a straight line, from a 10 m map of tree cover and from OpenStreetMap. Sightings are records published to GBIF since 2000, kept where their position is known to within 2 km. A sighting shows that someone recorded one there. No sighting does not mean there are none. Rain and the dryness of the air are not included. A dry summer can stop ticks for weeks, and mosquitoes need standing water. It says nothing about how many insects there are. Ditches, water butts and small streams are not on the map.
Wild animals None
None of the four large carnivores was found in this 10 km square. A model puts about 4 wild boar per km² here
| Wolf | None within 50 km |
|---|---|
| Brown bear | None within 50 km |
| Lynx | None within 50 km |
| Golden jackal | None within 50 km |
| Wild boar, modelled | About 4 per km² about 4 per km² is typical across Europe |
Large carnivores 2017 to 2022/23. The large carnivores are mapped in 10 km squares by national experts, from animals found dead, DNA, camera traps and checked tracks. The record ends in 2022 or 2023. Wolves and golden jackals have spread since, so a square that was empty then may not be now. An empty square means none was found there. The lynx is the Eurasian lynx. The Iberian lynx is not included. Wild boar numbers are a model fitted to hunting records and to a few places where boar were counted. It matches the official hunting records in France only loosely, and it describes the years before African swine fever, which has since reduced boar in parts of Germany, Poland, Italy and the Baltic states.
Plot
Land register 5,110 m²
Plot 29042A01100074 Catastro - INSPIRE Cadastral Parcels
| Cadastral reference nationalCadastralReference | 29042A01100074 |
|---|---|
| Parcel reference localId | 29042A01100074 |
| Registered area (m2) areaValue | 5110 |
| Parcel number label | 74 |
| Recorded in the register beginLifespanVersion | 2013-12-16 |
| Area of the drawn boundary | 5,110 m² |
| Register | Catastro - INSPIRE Cadastral Parcels |
| Published by | Direccion General del Catastro |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Boundary and reference as published by the land register. It does not show what may be built. Owner names are not collected. Navarre and the Basque provinces keep their own registers and are not in the national service.
Municipality Coín
Málaga Andalucía
| Municipality | Coín |
|---|---|
| District | Málaga |
| Region | Andalucía |
| Distance to the municipal boundary | 1.8 km |
The municipality is the authority that answers most planning questions about a plot. These boundaries come from map data. They are not a survey. Within about 150 m of a boundary the plot may fall in the next municipality, so check with the municipality before you rely on this.
Planning zone Non-urbanisable
Non-urbanisable land Plan General
| Zone Suelo no urbanizable | 100% of the plot |
|---|---|
| Type of plan | Plan General |
| Plan | Coín |
| Record updated | 2026-09-26 |
The zone comes from the plans the authorities publish. The rules for each zone are in the plan's documents. Protections, risks and other constraints can apply on top of them. Only the municipality can say what may be built on a plot. Outside the Valencia region this is the class of land the municipal plan sets, as the ministry records it. The municipal plan itself is what applies. Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (SIU); Generalitat Valenciana (ICV), Sistema de Información Urbana, clases de suelo; Planeamiento urbanístico de la Comunitat Valenciana, zonificación. Plan documents: https://ws132.juntadeandalucia.es/situadifusion/pages/search.jsf
Terrain 1–13°
137–150 m upper slope, facing S
| Across the plot | 7.0° on average, 0.8° to 12.9°, ground at 137 to 150 m |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 147 m |
| Slope round the pin | 10.5° on average, 0.8° to 36.3° |
| Aspect | south (170°) |
| Position | upper slope, higher than 55% of the ground within 250 m |
| Elevation data | measured every 5 m |
Slope is the average within 100 m of the point, with the range beside it. Taken from bare-ground elevation. Walls and terracing are not included.
Protected areas Outside
Nearest is 2.0 km away
| Ríos Guadalhorce, Fabalas y Pereilas | Natura 2000 site 2.0 km away |
|---|---|
| Ríos Guadalhorce, Fahalas y Pereilas | Natura 2000 habitat protection area 2.0 km away |
Rules on building, felling and drainage inside a protected area are set nationally and locally. Ask the planning authority what applies to this plot. Boundaries are those each country reported to the European Environment Agency. They are drawn at European scale, so a plot close to a boundary may fall on either side. The national authority's own map is definitive. National designations are not published for Estonia, Ireland, Turkiye, and Natura 2000 covers EU countries only.
Weather and climate
Weather 7–32 °C
July highs January lows 7 °C
| January | 16 °C by day, 7 °C at night 62 mm |
|---|---|
| February | 16 °C by day, 8 °C at night 55 mm |
| March | 19 °C by day, 9 °C at night 61 mm |
| April | 21 °C by day, 11 °C at night 48 mm |
| May | 25 °C by day, 14 °C at night 31 mm |
| June | 29 °C by day, 17 °C at night 9 mm |
| July | 32 °C by day, 20 °C at night 2 mm |
| August | 32 °C by day, 20 °C at night 6 mm |
| September | 28 °C by day, 17 °C at night 29 mm |
| October | 23 °C by day, 14 °C at night 62 mm |
| November | 19 °C by day, 10 °C at night 77 mm |
| December | 16 °C by day, 8 °C at night 79 mm |
| Rain and snow | 521 mm a year |
Averages for 1991 to 2020. The temperatures start from daily records for the area and are adjusted for the plot's height and for whether it sits in a dip or on a rise. They are air temperatures in the shade. At 956 weather stations the monthly highs came within 1 °C of the station at 4 in 5, and the lows at 3 in 5. Rain and snow are for the area around the plot, on a grid of about 9 km. In hills and mountains one valley can be much wetter or drier than the next. On a dry Alpine valley floor the figure can be twice what falls there. The rain totals are uncertain. At 5,600 weather stations in Germany they came out about 15% higher than the stations measured, and rain gauges catch a little less than falls. The wet and dry months matched.
Sun 3,000–3,050 h
Expected sunshine a year, after cloud trees and buildings not included
| Expected sunshine | 3,051 h a year, after cloud |
|---|---|
| Clear-sky sunshine | 4177 h a year |
| Lost to the horizon | 6% |
| Days without direct sun | 0 |
| Sun on 21 December | 08:59 to 17:44, 50 min lost to the horizon |
| Sun on 20 March | 07:32 to 19:14, 23 min lost to the horizon |
| Sun on 21 June | 07:26 to 21:09, 53 min lost to the horizon |
Clear-sky sunshine allows for the horizon only. Expected sunshine also allows for local cloud. Times are local time, including summer time.
Wind Sheltered
Wind in this area is sheltered by European standards, averaging 2.7 m/s at 50 m above ground, mainly from the east-south-east; rising ground upwind gives the plot some shelter
| Mean wind speed | 2.7 m/s at 50 m, sheltered |
|---|---|
| Prevailing wind | east-south-east, 19.4% of the year |
| Shelter | sheltered, ground rises 5° upwind |
| Most exposed side | east-south-east |
Wind speed is a regional figure for 50 m above ground, clear of trees and buildings. Shelter is estimated from the shape of the land and is not measured here. Woods, hedges and buildings also give shelter and are not included.
Snow Rare
Snow is rare here - most winters pass with little or none on the ground
| Snow on the ground | 2 days in an average winter |
|---|---|
| Most and least | 8 days in 2004, 0 in 2001 |
| Snow usually lies from | |
| Snow usually gone by | |
| Trend | no clear trend |
Based on satellite images on a 500 m grid, so it describes the area around the plot rather than the plot itself. Snow under forest can be hidden from the satellite, and snow that melts within a day may be missed.
Frost None
No frost in a typical year
| Frost | Rare. Most years have none |
|---|---|
| Coldest night | 1 °C, −1 °C in a hard winter |
| Frost pocket risk | Low |
| Higher than | 55% of nearby ground |
On still, clear nights cold air flows downhill and collects in low ground, where frost is then more likely. At this plot: air drains away from the plot. The nights and dates are worked out from 30 years of daily temperatures for the area, adjusted for the plot's height and for whether it sits in a dip or on a rise. Frost means the air falling below 0 °C.
Night sky Some glow
There is real light in this sky: the brighter stars stand out but the Milky Way is hard to find, with most of the glow coming from the SW
| Sky brightness | 20.33 mag/arcsec² |
|---|---|
| Artificial light | 2.21 times the natural sky |
| Brightest glow | south-west |
Modelled from satellite images of the light emitted within 100 km, for a clear moonless night. It is an estimate, not a measurement. Comparisons between locations are more reliable than the figure itself. Cloud, moonlight and new lighting nearby all change what you see.
Air quality Clean
Fine-particle levels are clean by European standards, cleaner than 6% of Spain
| Fine particles | 8.8 µg/m³ 1.76x the WHO guideline cleaner than 6% of Spain |
|---|---|
| Coarse particles | 17.3 µg/m³ 1.15x the WHO guideline cleaner than 5% of Spain |
| Traffic fumes | 5.1 µg/m³ 0.51x the WHO guideline cleaner than 15% of Spain |
| Summer ozone | 92.9 µg/m³ 1.55x the WHO guideline cleaner than 45% of Spain |
Modelled on a 10 km grid, so values describe the area rather than this plot. Local sources such as a nearby road, a quarry or wood stoves are not captured. Figures are for one year and vary with the weather.
Climate in 2050 0 → 0 frost nights
By the 2050s, about 22 more days above 30 °C and about 9 days longer at its driest, if emissions are curbed
| Hardiness zone | 10a now 10b to 10b by the 2050s |
|---|---|
| Periods | 1991 to 2020, and 2036 to 2065 |
The 2050 figures are scenarios, not forecasts. They show what happens if emissions follow each path. Today's temperatures are worked out for this plot and the change by 2050 is the models' change for the 25 km square around it. Rainfall and dry spells describe that square rather than the plot.
Risks
Flooding Not reached
No mapped river flood reaches this point. The nearest floodplain is about 3.1 km away.
| About once a century | not on the plot nearest 3.1 km |
|---|---|
| About once every 500 years | not on the plot nearest 3.1 km |
Dykes and drainage are not included. Flood defences such as dykes, embankments and drainage are not in this model, so land they protect is still shown as flooded. Covers flooding from larger rivers only (those draining more than about 150 km²). Flooding from heavy rain, small streams and the sea is not included. Where no flood is shown, the area may not have been modelled. It does not mean there is no flood risk.
Coastal flooding Unavailable
Not held for this country. See Coverage by country on ruralcheck.eu.
Wildfire 14 fires
Within 25 km since 2017
| Within 10 km | 3 |
|---|---|
| Within 25 km | 14 |
| Area burnt within 25 km | 2,473 ha |
The closest burned 5.7 km away in 2022. Includes fires of about 30 ha or more, mapped from satellite images. Smaller fires are not recorded, so the true number may be higher.
Landslides None
Outside the Catalan hazard sheets only past ground movements are recorded, and a plot in no zone may never have been looked at.
Map: Catalan geological hazard map and IGME ground movement record, ICGC and IGME. Catalonia grades landslide, rockfall and debris-flow hazard as low, medium or high on 63 map sheets, mostly in the Pyrenees. Elsewhere in Spain there is only a national record of past ground movements. A zone is a class of hazard. It is not the chance of a landslide in a given year. Geological hazard map of Catalonia 1:25 000 (GT VI), Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya; BD-MOVES, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME-CSIC). Modified: reprojected and read here for one location.
Avalanches Unavailable
Not held for this country. See Coverage by country on ruralcheck.eu.
Earthquake Moderate
Regional estimate, on rock
| Expected ground shaking | 0.099 g, moderate |
|---|---|
| Reference earthquake | about once in 475 years |
Expected earthquake shaking is moderate by European standards. Discuss it with a builder or surveyor. A regional estimate for firm ground. It is not a value for this plot or a building-code figure. Soft ground shakes more. Design requirements are set by national rules and a ground survey.
Infrastructure on the plot
Solar panels 1,657 kWh
A year per kW of panels, at the optimum angle
| Annual output | 1,657 kWh per kW installed |
|---|---|
| Optimum panel angle | 33° tilt, facing south |
| Horizon loss | 0.0% |
From PVGIS, the European Commission's solar model, for this point and horizon. Shading from buildings and trees is not included.
Groundwater 78 m
At a monitoring borehole 4,427 m away in 2024
| Monitoring borehole, 4.4 km SSW, 347 m deep, 58 to 81 m since 2015 | 78 m down in 2024 |
|---|---|
| Monitoring borehole, 4.9 km SSW, 75 m deep, 62 to 75 m since 2014 | 75 m down in 2023 |
| Wells and boreholes within 1 km | 2 |
| Springs within 1 km | 0 |
| Aquifer | Bajo Guadalhorce |
| Quantity, as the water authority rates it | Poor |
A guide for a well driller. Water can stand at a different depth on your plot, or not be there at all. More is taken from the groundwater body here than it can stand. Ask the water authority whether a new well is allowed. Water levels come from the national monitoring network, which is read every month or two and stands on the main aquifers. The wells and springs counted near the plot come from the national inventory of water points, which holds no levels. The aquifer is the groundwater body the water authority reports, drawn at 1:250,000. Water can stand at a very different depth a few hundred metres away, or not be found at all. Permission to sink a well and to draw water is a matter for the authorities. Ask a well driller and the local water authority before you rely on this. Records as of 2026-10-16.
Internet Unavailable
Not held for this country. See Coverage by country on ruralcheck.eu.
Vegetation
Trees 99% wooded
43% of the ground within 2 km of this plot is wooded. Almost all of it is evergreen. It keeps its leaves through the winter, so what it screens in summer it screens in January too.
| Wooded on the plot | 99% |
|---|---|
| Wooded within 2 km | 43% |
| Evergreen broadleaf | 96% of the woodland |
| Evergreen conifer | 4% of the woodland |
| Wooded within 500 m | 36% |
Leaf type from satellite images at 10 m for 2024. It says broadleaf or conifer and does not identify species. Larch is a conifer that goes bare and is counted as evergreen here. Single trees and hedges below the map's smallest mapped patch do not appear.
Pollen Apr-Jul
Olive and grass pollen, April to July
| Olive | April to May peak around 15 May more than 95% of Europe |
|---|---|
| Grass | April to July peak around 16 May more than 78% of Europe |
| Little in the air here | birch |
| Also recorded growing within 10 km | oak, nettle |
Modelled on a 10 km grid, so it describes the area rather than this plot. A birch or an olive grove nearby can raise the count at the plot. Based on 2024 to 2026. Hazel, alder, ash, oak, plane, cypress, nettle, pellitory and mugwort are not modelled. This report names those recorded growing within 10 km. That says nothing about how much of their pollen is in the air, and some places have few records, so a plant not named may still grow there.
What grows here No frost
Frost is rare here.
| Without frost | all year in a typical year |
|---|---|
| Growing season | 365 days a year |
| Zone on plant labels | 10a |
| Vegetables | No frost to plan around |
| Fruit trees | Late spring frosts are rare |
| Grapes | Hot summers for grapes |
| Olive trees | No frost hard enough to harm them in 30 years |
| Days without frost | all year here, all year in the wider area |
| Height | 146 m here, 254 m in the wider area |
We checked this method against 916 weather stations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. At half of them the last frost date was within 9 days of what the station recorded, and at 9 in 10 within 4 weeks. At half of them the coldest night was within about 2 °C. The slope, the sun on the plot, the soil, the water and the shelter of walls, hedges and trees are not included. Each of them changes what grows as much as the weather does. None of this says a plant will do well here.
Access
Public transport 2.3 km
Nearest bus stop, in a straight line
| Bus stop | 2.3 km WSW |
|---|---|
| Train station: Aljaima | 9.2 km NE |
| Airport: Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP) | 20.9 km E |
Distances are in a straight line to stops shown on the map. A stop on the map is not a service: some rural stops have only a few buses a day, so check the timetable. Not every rural stop is mapped, so there may be a nearer one.
Access road 18%
Steepest 100 m 36 m up 405 m unpaved
| Drive | 1.4 km from El Rodeo 3 min |
|---|---|
| Steepest stretch | 100 m at 18% uphill |
| Steeper than 10% | 205 m |
| Climb on the way in | 36 m up 31 m down |
| Asphalt or concrete | 585 m 42% |
| No surface on the map | 405 m 29% |
| Gravel | 405 m 29% |
| Winter closure on the map | None |
Drive from the middle of the town to the nearest road to the plot, along the route the drive times use. Gradients are read from ground measured every 5 m and smoothed along the road, so a short ramp steeper than its surroundings may not show. Checked against road signs that state a gradient, the figure was within 3 points of the sign on about two roads in three. Bridges and tunnels are taken as straight between their ends. Some of a drive can have no gradient. That is road outside the ground measured every 5 m, and motorways and main roads whose ground is steeper than such a road is built, as under a bridge the map does not show or a road newer than the measurement. There the height chart shows the lie of the land from coarser height data. Time on a farm or forest track uses the speed cars were recorded driving on tracks with the same surface on the map. Surfaces and winter closures are as mapped. The map says what a road is made of, and says nothing of its condition, its width or potholes. Many roads carry no surface on the map at all, and a winter closure is only known where someone has mapped it.
Paths on the plot By lane
Reached by a lane no path crosses the plot
| Road or track to the plot | Lane |
|---|
A way crosses the plot when it runs into the land-register boundary and out again somewhere else. A road or track reaches the plot when it comes within 10 m of the boundary. From the map. Rights of way are recorded in the land register's deeds, which are not public, so the map cannot say whether anyone has a right to use a path or whether the plot has a registered access. In some countries anyone may walk across open land, so a path is not always a right of way. The plot is the land-register plot the pin is in. A sale often includes the neighbouring plots too, so check those as well.
This report is generated automatically from public data and is for information only. It is not a land survey, a valuation or legal advice, and it does not replace a site visit or a professional survey.
Sources
- 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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (openstreetmap.org/copyright), ODbL.
- PVGIS © European Union, Joint Research Centre.
- Sunshine and radiation behind the PVGIS figures: Surface Radiation Data Set - Heliosat (SARAH) Edition 3, EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF), © EUMETSAT, CC BY 4.0 (Pfeifroth et al. 2023, doi:10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/SARAH/V003).
- Wildfire history: EFFIS / Copernicus EMS, © European Union, CC BY 4.0.
- River flood hazard: Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EFAS) river flood hazard maps for Europe and the Mediterranean Basin v3.1.1, © European Union, Joint Research Centre, CC BY 4.0 (Baugh et al. 2024, doi:10.2905/1D128B6C-A4EE-4858-9E34-6210707F3C81). Modified: read here for one location and simplified for display.
- Coastal storm tides: Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Global sea level change indicators from 1950 to 2050, GTSM v3 reanalysis 1985-2014 (Deltares), CC BY 4.0, doi:10.24381/cds.6edf04e0. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of this data. Modified: read at the nearest coast and spread over the measured ground by RuralCheck.
- Sea level rise: IPCC AR6 sea level projections (Garner et al. 2021, Fox-Kemper et al. 2021), doi:10.5281/zenodo.6382554, CC BY 4.0. Modified: medians read for each plot and added to the storm tide by RuralCheck.
- Natura 2000 © European Union, Directorate-General for Environment, CC BY 4.0.
- Nationally designated areas (CDDA) © European Environment Agency, CC BY 4.0.
- Airports, airfields and runways: OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
- Full-leaf dates: VIIRS VNP22Q2 land surface phenology 2013-2022, forest-masked with ESA WorldCover and composited by Mosig et al., CC BY 4.0 (doi:10.31223/X5B18W). Modified: reduced to four dates per cell.
- Leaf type: this report has been prepared using European Union's Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information, High Resolution Layer Dominant Leaf Type (10 m, yearly from 2018). Modified: read here for one location.
- Tree cover: deadtrees.earth Europe composite (10 m fractional canopy cover), CC BY 4.0 (Mosig et al. 2026, doi:10.31223/X5B18W). Modified: read here for one location.
- Tree type: Copernicus Global Land Service land cover 100 m, collection 3, © European Union, produced by VITO, CC BY 4.0 (Buchhorn et al. 2020, doi:10.5281/zenodo.3939050). Modified: cropped to Europe and read here for one location.
- Farmland prices, household income, population, unemployment and visitor nights, and flights at airports: Eurostat (apri_lprc, nama_10r_2hhinc, demo_r_gind3, demo_r_pjanaggr3, lfst_r_lfu3rt, tour_occ_nin3, tour_occ_nin2m, avia_paoa), © European Union, reuse permitted under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU. Modified: read here for one region and combined into ratios.
- Landslide maps: ISPRA, PAI mosaic 2024, CC BY 4.0 (Italy); Géoportail de l'Urbanisme and GASPAR, Licence Ouverte 2.0 (France); Cantons AR, BE, BL, FR, GE, GL, JU, LU, SH, SO, SZ, TG, TI, VS, ZG, ZH, Gefahrenkarten via geodienste.ch (Switzerland); WLV Gefahrenzonenpläne, Land Niederösterreich CC BY 4.0, Land Oberösterreich doris.at CC BY 4.0 (Austria); Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt CC BY 4.0, Regierungspräsidium Freiburg - LGRB dl-de/by-2.0 (Germany); NVE under NLOD (Norway); SGU CC0, SGI CC BY 4.0 (Sweden); © Štátny geologický ústav Dionýza Štúra, CC BY 4.0 (Slovakia); Direkcija RS za vode, CC BY 4.0 (Slovenia); Česká geologická služba, CC BY 4.0 (Czechia); ICGC and IGME-CSIC (Spain); Service public de Wallonie CC BY 4.0, Databank Ondergrond Vlaanderen (Belgium). Modified: reprojected and read here for one location.
- Avalanche maps: Cantons AR, BE, BL, FR, GE, GL, JU, LU, SH, SO, SZ, TG, TI, VS, ZG, ZH, Gefahrenkarten via geodienste.ch (Switzerland); WLV Gefahrenzonenpläne, BML (Austria); NVE under NLOD (Norway); Géoportail de l'Urbanisme and GASPAR, Licence Ouverte 2.0 (France); Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Lawinenkataster, CC BY 4.0 (Germany); Autonome Provinz Bozen - Südtirol CC0, Provincia autonoma di Trento CC0, Arpa Piemonte - Geoportale CC BY 4.0 (Italy); Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya CC BY 4.0 (Spain). Modified: reprojected and read here for one location.
- Earthquake hazard: ESHM20, EFEHR / ETH Zurich, CC BY 4.0 (Danciu et al. 2021, doi:10.12686/a15).
- Climate indicators for Europe (ERA5 and EURO-CORDEX): Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store, CC BY 4.0. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of this data.
- Daily temperatures behind the growing season: ERA5-Land hourly data (Munoz-Sabater et al. 2021, doi:10.5194/essd-13-4349-2021), generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information 1991-2020, CC BY 4.0. Modified: reduced to daily minimum and maximum and adjusted to each plot by RuralCheck. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of this data.
- Rain and snow by month: ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (Munoz-Sabater et al. 2021, doi:10.5194/essd-13-4349-2021), generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information 1991-2020, CC BY 4.0. Modified: averaged by calendar month and read for each plot by RuralCheck. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of this data.
- Air quality: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) European air quality reanalysis, ECMWF, CC BY 4.0.
- Pollen: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) European air quality forecasts, ECMWF, CC BY 4.0 (doi:10.24381/a4005cee). Modified: averaged by month over 2024 to 2026 and compared across Europe.
- Plants recorded growing: GBIF.org occurrence download (doi:10.15468/dl.grtawx), records under CC0 1.0 and CC BY 4.0. Modified: counted per square kilometre and measured from each plot by RuralCheck.
- Recorded sightings: GBIF.org occurrence records under CC0 1.0 and CC BY 4.0 (doi:10.15468/dd.3thjrq), from the datasets listed at https://ruralcheck.eu/about/sightings. Modified: filtered and measured from each plot by RuralCheck.
- Large carnivores: Kaczensky, P., Ranc, N., Hatlauf, J., Payne, J.C. et al. (2024), Large carnivore distribution maps for Europe 2017 - 2022/23, IUCN/SSC Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe for the European Commission, Dryad, doi:10.5061/dryad.3xsj3txrc, CC0 1.0.
- Wild boar: ENETWILD consortium et al. (2024), Modelling wild boar abundance at high resolution, EFSA supporting publication, Zenodo doi:10.5281/zenodo.10809293, CC BY 4.0. Modified: read at the plot and compared with the countries RuralCheck covers.
- Night-time lights: VIIRS VNL V2 annual composite, Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines, CC BY 4.0 (Elvidge et al. 2021).
- Population: GHS-POP R2023A, Global Human Settlement Layer, © European Union, Joint Research Centre, CC BY 4.0 (Schiavina et al. 2023, doi:10.2905/2FF68A52-5B5B-4A22-8F40-C41DA8332CFE). Modified: summed here within 1 km and 5 km. Kind of place: GHS-SMOD R2023A, the degree of urbanisation, © European Union, Joint Research Centre, CC BY 4.0 (Schiavina et al. 2023, doi:10.2905/A0DF7A6F-49DE-46EA-9BDE-563437A6E2BA).
- Snow-cover history: Global SnowPack © DLR, CC BY 4.0 (Dietz et al. 2015, doi:10.1080/2150704X.2015.1084551).
- Wind speed obtained from the Global Wind Atlas version 4.0, a free, web-based application developed, owned and operated by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), released in partnership with the World Bank Group, utilizing data provided by Vortex, using funding provided by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP); CC BY 4.0 (Davis et al. 2023, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0075.1).
- Wind direction: generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information (ERA5, 2005-2024); neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. Modified: reduced here to a twelve-sector wind rose.
- Phone signal and internet, Austria: Breitbandatlas, Breitbandbuero (Bundesministerium fuer Finanzen), CC BY 3.0 AT. Modified: the published 100 m cells are held here as a raster on the same grid.
- Phone signal and internet, France: Mon Reseau Mobile and Ma connexion internet, ARCEP, Licence Ouverte 2.0. Modified: the published coverage polygons and per-building eligibility are reduced here to a 100 m grid.
- Phone signal and internet, Germany: © BNetzA. Datenstand: 06.2026. Modified: the published cells are reduced here to a 100 m grid.
- Groundwater, France: BRGM, Banque du sous-sol (BSS) and BDLISA v3; ADES groundwater levels via Hub'Eau (OFB, BRGM); Licence Ouverte 2.0. Modified: monitored levels reduced to the latest reading and a ten-year range, the aquifer map to the layers under each point.
- Groundwater, Spain: © Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (red de seguimiento del estado cuantitativo); IGME, inventario de puntos de agua, IGME free licence. Modified: levels reduced to the latest reading and a ten-year range.
- Groundwater, North Rhine-Westphalia: Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Klima NRW (LANUK), OpenHygrisC, Datenlizenz Deutschland Zero 2.0. Modified: levels reduced to the latest reading and a ten-year range.
- Groundwater, Saxony: Quelle: Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie; Grundwassermessnetze (https://geoportal.sachsen.de/md/d52fda30-a6e3-416e-b773-82f3618119f2) and aktueller Grundwasserstand (https://geoportal.sachsen.de/md/b3798815-f90c-42f1-bb70-9b5f7718bcf3); Datenlizenz Deutschland Namensnennung 2.0 (www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0). Modified: reduced to the latest reading.
- Groundwater, Germany (Bavaria): Datenquelle: Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt, www.lfu.bayern.de (Gewässerkundlicher Dienst Bayern), CC BY 4.0. Modified: levels reduced to the latest reading and a ten-year range, and turned into a depth below the ground.
- Groundwater, Germany (Brandenburg): © Landesamt für Umwelt Brandenburg, Datenlizenz Deutschland Namensnennung 2.0 (www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0). Modified: levels reduced to the latest reading and a ten-year range.
- Groundwater, Germany (Schleswig-Holstein): LfU-SH, Landesamt für Umwelt Schleswig-Holstein, Datenlizenz Deutschland Namensnennung 2.0 (www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0). Modified: levels reduced to the latest reading and a ten-year range, and turned into a depth below the ground.
- Groundwater, Flanders: Databank Ondergrond Vlaanderen, groundwater wells, filters and water levels of VMM and the other network managers, consulted at https://www.dov.vlaanderen.be on the build date; Modellicentie voor gratis hergebruik v1.0. Modified: levels reduced to the shallowest filter, its latest reading and a ten-year range.
- Groundwater, Estonia: Keskkonnaagentuur (Estonian Environment Agency), well register (EELIS, puuraugud) and environmental monitoring data (KESE), CC BY 4.0. Modified: levels reduced to the latest reading and a ten-year range.
- Groundwater, Netherlands: Basisregistratie Ondergrond (BRO), groundwater monitoring wells and groundwater level dossiers, via PDOK and the BRO public services, CC0 1.0. Modified: each well reduced to its shallowest monitoring tube with readings, and its levels to the latest reading and a ten-year range.
- Groundwater bodies and their quantity status: WISE Water Framework Directive database and groundwater body horizons 2022, © European Environment Agency and Directorate-General for Environment, CC BY 4.0. Modified: simplified, and read here for one location.
- Country names in search results: Natural Earth, public domain.
- Planning zones, France: Geoportail de l'urbanisme (Ministry for planning and IGN), from the plans each commune publishes, Licence Ouverte. Modified: reduced to the zones and simplified for display.
- Planning zones, Austria: Land Oberoesterreich (DORIS), Land Salzburg (SAGIS), Land Steiermark, Land Kaernten (KAGIS), Land Tirol, Land Vorarlberg (VOGIS), Stadt Wien, Land Niederoesterreich; municipal boundaries BEV. All CC BY 4.0. Modified: reduced to the zones and reprojected.
- Planning zones, Belgium: Service public de Wallonie, Plan de secteur, CC BY 4.0; Departement Omgeving Vlaanderen, Digitaal Stedenbouwkundig Informatiesysteem, Modellicentie Gratis Hergebruik; urban.brussels, PRAS, CC BY 4.0. Modified: reprojected, and in Flanders later plans cut out of earlier ones.
- Planning zones, Denmark: Plan- og Landdistriktsstyrelsen, Plandata.dk, CC BY 4.0. Modified: the rural zone is the municipal plan area outside town and summer-house zones.
- Planning zones, Estonia: Republic of Estonia Land and Spatial Development Board, planning information system, open data licence (CC BY 4.0 equivalent), data as of the date on the card.
- Planning zones, Germany: Daten aus dem Geoportal Raumordnung Baden-Wuerttemberg (dl-de/by-2.0); Land Berlin, Flaechennutzungsplan (dl-de/zero-2.0); Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behoerde fuer Stadtentwicklung und Wohnen (dl-de/by-2.0).
- Planning zones, Italy: Regione Lombardia, PGT Tavola delle previsioni di piano, CC BY 4.0; Autonomous Province of Bolzano, urban plans, CC0; Citta metropolitana di Torino, Mosaico dei PRGC, CC BY 4.0; Regione del Veneto, Direzione Pianificazione Territoriale, Zonizzazione P.R.C., IODL 2.0 (Regione del Veneto, L.R. n. 28/76, Formazione della Carta Tecnica Regionale); Provincia di Biella, Osservatorio urbanistico, CC BY 4.0; Citta metropolitana di Bologna, Mosaico PSC, CC BY 3.0. Modified: reduced to the zones and reprojected.
- Planning zones, Luxembourg: Ministere des Affaires interieures, PAG geometries (data.public.lu), CC0.
- Planning zones, Slovenia: Ministrstvo za naravne vire in prostor, PIS; municipal boundaries Geodetska uprava Republike Slovenije. Both CC BY 4.0.
- Planning zones, Spain: Sistema de Informacion Urbana, Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana, data of 2025-12-02; Planeamiento 2026 CC BY 4.0, Generalitat Valenciana. Modified: reprojected.
- Planning zones, Switzerland: cantonal land-use plans via geodienste.ch (AG, AI, AR, BE, BL, BS, FR, GE, JU, LU, SH, SO, SZ, UR, VS, ZG); Bauzonen Schweiz, Bundesamt fuer Raumentwicklung ARE and the cantonal planning offices; municipal boundaries (c) swisstopo.
- Aerial imagery on the map and in the 3D view, for paid plans: Esri World Imagery - Esri, Vantor, Earthstar Geographics and the GIS user community. Powered by Esri. Streamed from Esri and not stored here.
- Basemap: OpenFreeMap, tiles on the OpenMapTiles schema (CC BY 4.0) built from OpenStreetMap data (ODbL). Relief shaded from the same national elevation surveys and Copernicus GLO-30 the report's terrain uses.
- Elevation: Digital Terrain Model 1st Coverage with 5 m grid spacing © CC-BY 4.0 scne.es 2025 (CC BY 4.0).