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Find your Slovenia.

Six questions, eleven places between the coast and the Karst. The Sestante neither guesses nor sells: it ranks the places using the data we have measured and tells you why.

Data as of 5 October 2026 · 6 sources

Where are you coming from?
halfway

On the coast homes sit between sea level and the first hills; on the Karst people live on the plateau, a few hundred metres up.

Your budget

It does not reward the cheapest place: what counts is where homes at that price have actually sold, in the public GURS register.

A view of the sea

We measure the ground around the centre, not the house: a place that rises offers more homes with a view, but does not guarantee one.

Town or quiet?

This is our own classification of the places: seaside towns, riviera, Karst villages.

What do you need nearby?

In minutes by car, without traffic. Portorož has a general aviation airport, no scheduled flights: flights leave from Trieste and Ljubljana.

Your map

starting from: Munich

First Tomaj & Dutovlje, second Sežana, third Ankaran.

  1. 86of 100
    • 346 m above sea level, on the plateau
    • 5 h 15 min from Munich
  2. SežanaThe Karst
    86of 100
    • 371 m above sea level, on the plateau
    • 5 h 08 min from Munich
  3. AnkaranRiviera
    84of 100
    • 23 m above sea level
    • 5 h 25 min from Munich
Tell me about these areas

The link holds only your answers, no personal data.

All 11 places
  1. 1Tomaj & Dutovlje86
  2. 2Sežana86
  3. 3Ankaran84
  4. 4Divača73
  5. 5Lipica70
  6. 6Portorož66
  7. 7Koper63
  8. 8Kozina62
  9. 9Piran53
  10. 10Izola52
  11. 11Strunjan42

OSRM driving times without traffic, measured on 5 October 2026 · EU-DEM elevations · GURS ETN sales since 1 January 2021.

How we calculate

For each answer the Sestante compares the eleven places on a scale from 0 to 1 and measures how close each one is to what you chose. Measured data only:

  • driving time from your city, OSRM without traffic (real summer times on the coast can be much longer);
  • the elevation of the ground around the centre, EU-DEM: it is the axis between sea and plateau, ranked because the coast and the Karst have no elevations in between;
  • how many houses sold in the municipality in your price band, from the public GURS register: what counts is where that market exists, not where you spend least;
  • the rise of the ground around the centre, on the coast only: it measures the terrain, not your future window;
  • the character of the place (seaside town, riviera, Karst): our own classification, stated as such;
  • minutes from the hospital with an emergency department in Izola, from the marinas, from the Italian-language schools, from the airports of Trieste and Ljubljana, from Trieste.

The score is the weighted average of those closeness values, from 0 to 100: sea or plateau weighs double, budget one and a half, everything else once. Same answers, same ranking: no chance, no commercial preference.

The Sestante does not know houses: it knows places. The hills of Koper are not among the eleven places because their data sits on the hill pages.

Sources

  1. Driving times: OSRM, without traffic, OpenStreetMap dataproject-osrm.org · read on 5 October 2026
  2. Ground elevation: EU-DEM (Copernicus) in the Terrain Tilesgithub.com · read on 5 October 2026
  3. Registered sales: GURS, Evidenca trga nepremičnine-prostor.gov.si · read on 5 October 2026
  4. Izola General Hospital, with an emergency departmentsb-izola.si · read on 5 October 2026
  5. Italian Chamber of Deputies: the schools of the Italian community in Sloveniacamera.it · read on 5 October 2026
  6. Marinas of Koper, Izola and Portorožmarinap.si · read on 5 October 2026

The data for each place

Eleven places, the data the Sestante uses
PlaceWorldfrom Munichfrom TriesteElevation of the centreRise around itHouses sold in the municipalityof which from half a millionof which from a millionhospital with emergency departmenta marinaItalian-language schoolsairport with scheduled flights
Tomaj & DutovljeThe Karst5 h 15 min26 min346 m—1203042 min37 min37 min44 min
SežanaThe Karst5 h 08 min18 min371 m—1203035 min30 min30 min37 min
AnkaranRiviera5 h 25 min23 min23 m55 m183017 min9 min9 min54 min
DivačaThe Karst5 h 07 min27 min436 m—550031 min26 min26 min47 min
LipicaThe Karst5 h 18 min23 min401 m—1203040 min35 min35 min44 min
PortorožRiviera5 h 37 min38 min13 m58 m159531812 min0 min8 min69 min
KoperSeaside towns5 h 26 min27 min8 m16 m44438512 min0 min0 min57 min
KozinaThe Karst5 h 12 min25 min491 m—610028 min23 min23 min47 min
PiranSeaside towns5 h 44 min45 min11 m61 m159531819 min9 min0 min75 min
IzolaSeaside towns5 h 31 min32 min3 m13 m801440 min0 min0 min62 min
StrunjanRiviera5 h 34 min35 min1 m36 m15953189 min6 min9 min66 min

Driving minutes without traffic (OSRM, 5 October 2026); EU-DEM ground elevation and rise around the centre of the place; house sales in the municipality since 1 January 2021 (GURS ETN). Several places share a municipality: Piran, Portorož and Strunjan share the counts, as do Sežana, Lipica and Tomaj.

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