Ascona

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Ascona

Total population

5,423

WeatherAvg high 65°F

Coordinates46.16°, 8.77°

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Ascona is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Climate

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

Notable people from here

Gaetano Matteo Pisoni

Swiss-Italian architect (1713-1782)

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Aurelio Bacciarini

Swiss priest and theologian (1873-1935)

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Michele Arnaboldi

Swiss architect

Pietro Berno

Swiss missionary

Nella Martinetti

Swiss singer (1946– 2011)

Dimitri

Swiss clown (1935–2016)

Antonio Ciseri

Italian painter (1821-1891)

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Claudio Baccalà

Swiss artist (1923-2007)

Giovanni Serodine

Italian painter (1594-1630)

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Bruno Bisang

Swiss photographer

Daniela Ambrosoli

Swiss entrepreneur, philanthropist, founder and president of the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation and film director

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Hannes Wettstein

Swiss designer and architect (1958-2008)

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Giuseppe Torti

Swiss priest and theologian (1928-2005)

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Gotthard de Beauclair

German publisher (1907–1992)

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Wilfried de Beauclair

German mathematician and engineer (1912–2020)

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Lothar Knaak

Swiss psychotherapist (1925-2006)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Ticino

• Losone
  0.9 mi away · pop. 6,499
• Arcegno
  1.4 mi away
• Locarno
  1.5 mi away · pop. 16,000
• Muralto
  1.9 mi away · pop. 2,811
• Brè sopra Locarno
  2 mi away
• Ronco sopra Ascona
  2.3 mi away · pop. 652
• San Nazzaro
  2.3 mi away · pop. 641
• Gerra
  2.4 mi away · pop. 254
• Tegna
  2.5 mi away · pop. 757
• Vairano
  2.6 mi away
• Verscio
  2.8 mi away · pop. 1,120
• Piazzogna
  2.8 mi away

Browse all places in Ticino →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Ascona

Stochastic Processes in Classical and Quantum Systems: Proceedings of the 1st Ascona-Como International Conference Held in Ascona, Ticino (Switzerland), June 24–29, 1985 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

Sergio Albeverio · 2013

Stochastic processes in classical and quantum systems

Ascona-Como International Conference (1st 1985 Ascona, Switzerland) · 1986

Stochastic Processes in Classical and Quantum Systems

S. Albeverio · 1986

Organizing the Extended Enterprise

Paul Schönsleben · 1998

Ronco sopra Ascona

Stefano Vassere · 2007

10th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, Centro Stefano Franscini (The ETH Conference Center), Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, 4-8 April, 1995

Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop (10th 1995 Ticino) · 1995

Die Vegetarier-Ansiedlung in Ascona und die sogenannten Naturmenschen im Tessin

Adolf Arthur Grohmann · 1997

Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Tessin Bd 2: L'Alto Vernano:Il Circolo delle Isole: (ASCONA, RONCO, LOSONE e Brissago) (I Monumenti d'arte e di storia della Svizzera)

Virgilio Gilardoni · 1972

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