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Distance to a mountain area

Shortest straight-line distance from the reviewed representative city point to an area classified as mountainous by the EEA European Mountain Areas dataset.

Cities compared
36
Median
78.2 km
Lowest · Zurich
0.0 km
Highest · Tampere
1,162.5 km

The reference is the median of the 36 cities published here, not a European average. Eurostat's EU aggregates are not collected yet, and deriving one from these cities would invent a figure no source publishes.

Ordered lowest to highest

This measure states no direction, because readers of this site want opposite things from it. The order is lowest to highest and nothing here says which end is better — that is yours to decide.

Every value is published at the same geographic level: Point. Period 2008-12-12. Confidence B throughout.

  1. 1ZurichSwitzerland

    0.0 km

    Zurich city point · [1]
  2. 2BolognaItaly

    1.2 km

    Bologna city point · [1]
  3. 3BratislavaSlovakia

    1.8 km

    Bratislava city point · [1]
  4. 4LjubljanaSlovenia

    2.2 km

    Ljubljana city point · [1]
  5. 5Luxembourg CityLuxembourg

    4.3 km

    Luxembourg City city point · [1]
  6. 6SplitCroatia

    4.4 km

    Split city point · [1]
  7. 7ZagrebCroatia

    4.5 km

    Zagreb city point · [1]
  8. 8LyonFrance

    6.2 km

    Lyon city point · [1]
  9. 9LisbonPortugal

    8.6 km

    Lisbon city point · [1]
  10. 10PragueCzechia

    14.4 km

    Prague city point · [1]
  11. 11GrazAustria

    19.9 km

    Graz city point · [1]
  12. 12ValenciaSpain

    27.0 km

    Valencia city point · [1]
  13. 13WrocławPoland

    30.5 km

    Wrocław city point · [1]
  14. 14ViennaAustria

    35.5 km

    Vienna city point · [1]
  15. 15PortoPortugal

    36.4 km

    Porto city point · [1]
  16. 16SalzburgAustria

    40.7 km

    Salzburg city point · [1]
  17. 17MilanItaly

    47.2 km

    Milan city point · [1]
  18. 18MunichGermany

    71.8 km

    Munich city point · [1]
  19. 19ParisFrance

    84.5 km

    Paris city point · [1]
  20. 20BrusselsBelgium

    87.5 km

    Brussels city point · [1]
  21. 21BarcelonaSpain

    136.1 km

    Barcelona city point · [1]
  22. 22HamburgGermany

    141.1 km

    Hamburg city point · [1]
  23. 23WarsawPoland

    146.6 km

    Warsaw city point · [1]
  24. 24UtrechtNetherlands

    154.3 km

    Utrecht city point · [1]
  25. 25BerlinGermany

    163.9 km

    Berlin city point · [1]
  26. 26AmsterdamNetherlands

    188.1 km

    Amsterdam city point · [1]
  27. 27The HagueNetherlands

    191.0 km

    The Hague city point · [1]
  28. 28GdańskPoland

    345.9 km

    Gdańsk city point · [1]
  29. 29CopenhagenDenmark

    421.9 km

    Copenhagen city point · [1]
  30. 30DublinIreland

    499.7 km

    Dublin city point · [1]
  31. 31VilniusLithuania

    500.9 km

    Vilnius city point · [1]
  32. 32OsloNorway

    846.4 km

    Oslo city point · [1]
  33. 33StockholmSweden

    899.9 km

    Stockholm city point · [1]
  34. 34TallinnEstonia

    959.6 km

    Tallinn city point · [1]
  35. 35HelsinkiFinland

    1,038.1 km

    Helsinki city point · [1]
  36. 36TampereFinland

    1,162.5 km

    Tampere city point · [1]

Each bar grows from the median towards the side its value falls on. The two halves are scaled independently, so the lowest and highest values reach their ends even when the spread is uneven: a bar's length is comparable with others on the same side of the median, not across it.

How this measure is built

Definition
Shortest straight-line distance from the reviewed representative city point to an area classified as mountainous by the EEA European Mountain Areas dataset.
Calculation
shortest point-to-polygon distance to the pinned EEA mountain-area delineation
Limits
The Near the mountains signal uses whichcity.eu's fixed 50 km access threshold. The EEA defines the mountain polygons from altitude, slope, climate and local terrain variation; it does not define this proximity threshold. Straight-line distance is not travel time, trail access, elevation or a view from the city.
Position
The median, the gap and the rank are arithmetic over the values in this table and can be recomputed from it. They are not a score, carry no weighting, and combine with nothing else on the site.Read the method

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1 referencesEvery figure's exact source query

  1. European Environment Agency. European Mountain Areas, version 1. Zurich city point. Published 2008-12-12. Retrieved 2026-08-01. Open exact source query

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