Sunshine in Airolo

Airolo (TI) gets about 1630 hours of sunshine a year, 49% of the possible maximum, or 4.5 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 37% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 78 of 101 places in Ticino. That's about 250 hours less than the Ticino average of 1880. Mountains around it block about 440 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1630 hsunshine a year

6.5 ha day in July

1.1 ha day in December

#78 / 101in Ticino

Sunshine month by month

Average hours of sunshine per day, 1991–2020. The line shows the most the sun could shine here, with the mountains around it.

Direct sun at the centre on a clear day, with the mountains around it: on 21 December from 09:56 to 11:41, and on 21 June from 06:59 to 19:32.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 4h 41m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 27m later than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.2 h	68 h
February	4.6 h	129 h
March	5.5 h	171 h
April	5.0 h	149 h
May	4.8 h	150 h
June	6.0 h	180 h
July	6.5 h	200 h
August	5.9 h	182 h
September	5.4 h	161 h
October	4.5 h	138 h
November	2.3 h	69 h
December	1.1 h	35 h

Climate in Airolo

6.8 °Cmean temperature

21.6 °CJuly daily high

−5.5 °CJanuary nightly low

1674 mmrain and snow a year

1288 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1167 mabove sea level

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