Find your lake.

Each answer becomes a criterion. For each criterion we put the sixteen places on a scale from 0 to 1 and measure how close each one is to what you asked for:

• Time: driving minutes without traffic from your starting city (OSRM). The closest scores 1. Weight 1.
• Water or hillside: metres above the lake surface at the centre of the place, ranked, because on the shores the values crowd near zero. The slider moves the target from "water on foot" (0) to "open hillside" (1). Weight 2.
• Budget: the level of OMI villa quotations in the municipality's most expensive zone. The four bands aim at 0, 0.4, 0.8 and 1 on the scale: they do not reward the cheapest place. Weight 1.5, only if you choose a band.
• Winter sun: minutes of direct sun on the ground on 21 December, calculated by us on the terrain. Weight 1 if it "matters", 2 if "essential".
• Pace: population, on a logarithmic scale. The hamlets (Legro, Ronco, Vacciago) count as 200 residents, because ISTAT does not count them separately. Weight 1, only if you choose.
• Nearby: straight-line distance to the station and the pier, driving minutes from Malpensa. Weight 1 for each item ticked.

The score is the weighted average of closeness, from 0 to 100: for each criterion weight × (1 − distance from the target), summed and divided by the sum of weights. Ties go to geographic order. Same answers, same ranking: no randomness, no commercial preference.

The Sestante does not know homes: it knows places. A specific home can have more sun, more view or more noise than the centre of its village.

Times are without traffic; the sun ignores buildings and trees; OMI quotations are estimates per zone, not prices.