Drive time to the nearest emergency department (OpenStreetMap) across ~7,900 comuni, from OpenStreetMap contributors. Pan and zoom the map, or search a place to see its figure and open its full profile.
How it’s built. Minutes by road from the main town of the comune to the nearest hospital that OpenStreetMap volunteers have tagged emergency=yes. This comes from volunteer mapping: it is less complete and less accurate than the Ministry list, and a town can look far from an emergency department only because a nearby one is not tagged. Treat it as a hint, not a service guarantee; confirm with the local health authority (ASL/ULSS/ASST). Sites OpenStreetMap tags emergency=yes but whose name says they are not an emergency department (a Guardia Medica, an ambulatorio or poliambulatorio, a Casa della Salute, Casa di Comunità or Casa della Sanità, a consultorio, a punto di primo intervento) are left out, as are unnamed sites with no beds tagged and no Ministry hospital within 300 m; a name that says Ospedale, Policlinico, Pronto Soccorso, Presidio Ospedaliero or Istituto Ospedaliero is always kept. The excluded list, with the rule for each, is in data/distance/destinations.json. Measured by road from the main town of the comune: the OpenStreetMap place point (city, town or village) named like the comune, or like its first-named part when it is named for several places, nearest the comune's geographic center when there are several. 287 comuni have no such point and are measured from the geographic center of the comune instead (flagged in data/distance/nearest-comune-2026.json). Free-flow speeds, no traffic, no stops, no ferries, and no unpaved roads, over OpenStreetMap roads (Geofabrik extract of 20 October 2026, routed with Valhalla). It is an approximation: the point is not your address, and a winter closure or a queue changes a real trip. A village reachable only by cable car or a track has no figure. Lower is closer. Credit: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); this derived file is shared under the same license.