All things you need to know about living in Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the province of Belluno, is home to 6 Americans: 0.11% of its 5,491 residents.
That is the 289th-highest concentration of Americans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Veneto it ranks 19th.
ISTAT counts 279 residents with a foreign citizenship in Cortina d'Ampezzo, 5.08% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Americans (6), Spaniards (5), Brazilians (3).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Belluno scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for nonprofit organizations and electricity from renewable sources.
It scores in the bottom quarter for overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage and density and importance of museums' heritage.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 16.9°C (62°F) and winters a low of -11.5°C (11°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Cortina d'Ampezzo sees about 0 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,677mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 184 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Cortina d'Ampezzo at about €9,513 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 36.4 years of renting the same property.
Cortina d'Ampezzo population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 73 | 1.33% |
| Romania | 46 | 0.84% |
| Albania | 10 | 0.18% |
| Poland | 10 | 0.18% |
| Croatia | 9 | 0.16% |
| United States | 6 | 0.11% |
| Spain | 5 | 0.09% |
| Bulgaria | 4 | 0.07% |
| Brazil | 3 | 0.05% |
| France | 3 | 0.05% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 0.05% |
| Czechia | 2 | 0.04% |
| Germany | 2 | 0.04% |
| Lithuania | 2 | 0.04% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.02% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.02% |
| Australia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Denmark | 1 | 0.02% |
| Greece | 1 | 0.02% |
| South Korea | 1 | 0.02% |
| Norway | 1 | 0.02% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Slovakia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Venezuela | 1 | 0.02% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 5,065 | 92.24% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 129 | 2.35% |
| Born outside the EU | 297 | 5.41% |
Americans over time
Quality of life in Belluno
Full BES profile for Belluno →Belluno on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Cortina d'Ampezzo is far above the Belluno average of €1,290/m². Averaged across 4 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
36.4 years of rent here equal the purchase price — well above the national median of 22.2 years.
A ratio between two OMI prices, not a return on investment. It leaves out purchase taxes, IMU, maintenance, financing and the months a place sits empty — all of which push the real figure up. Useful for the question it does answer: whether this town looks expensive to buy relative to what renting in it costs.
A detached house here averages €8,150/m², against €9,513 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — the two cost about the same per square meter.
OMI prices “Ville e Villini” separately from the apartments every other figure on this page describes. Nationally a house costs about 14% more per square meter, but in 450 comuni it costs less — worth checking rather than assuming.
Seismic zone
Cortina d'Ampezzo is in seismic zone 3. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 3 as a zone where strong earthquakes are less likely than in zones 1 and 2.
This is the legal classification the Region gave the comune, used for planning and for control of building works. It is not a forecast, and it says nothing about the building you are looking at: since the 2018 building code the design load of a new building comes from site-specific hazard, not from the zone. Have any specific property checked by a qualified engineer.
Not to be confused with the “seismic” routes of the 7% pensioner regime. Those turn on whether the comune was in the 2009 L’Aquila or 2016–17 central-Italy earthquake areas, not on its zone, and being in zone 1 does not make anyone eligible for that regime, or for any tax treatment.
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Nearest hospital: Gvm Cortina S.R.L., about 2.5 km / 3 minutes by road from Cortina d'Ampezzo (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Gvm Cortina S.R.L., Cortina d'Ampezzo (Pronto Soccorso), about 2.5 km / 3 minutes by road from Cortina d'Ampezzo (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Ospedale di Belluno (DEA level I), about 68.9 km / 60 minutes by road from Cortina d'Ampezzo (the main town).
Nearest airport: Treviso Airport (TSF), about 136.1 km / 89 minutes by road from Cortina d'Ampezzo (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Esselunga, about 0.9 km / 1 minute by road from Cortina d'Ampezzo (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Internazionale Srl, about 3 km / 3 minutes by road from Cortina d'Ampezzo (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Toblach - Dobbiaco, about 31.2 km / 26 minutes by road from Cortina d'Ampezzo (the main town).
Measured by road from the main town of the comune (its OpenStreetMap place point; the geographic center for the few comuni with none), at free-flow speeds with no traffic. It is approximate. For Cortina d'Ampezzo, a trip from your own address can take longer or shorter. Drive the route before you rely on it, and ask the local health authority which hospital serves the town. Shops, pharmacies and stations are the nearest to the main town, not to your address.
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