Sunshine in Albinen

Albinen (VS) gets about 1820 hours of sunshine a year, 54% of the possible maximum, or 5.0 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 83% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 45 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 90 hours more than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 450 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1820 hsunshine a year

6.5 ha day in July

3.3 ha day in December

#45 / 123in Valais

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 09:21 to 16:27, and on 21 June from 08:01 to 19:36.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 05m later than over a flat horizon (June).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 31m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	3.8 h	118 h
February	4.6 h	128 h
March	4.9 h	153 h
April	5.2 h	157 h
May	5.4 h	167 h
June	6.1 h	184 h
July	6.5 h	200 h
August	6.0 h	187 h
September	5.5 h	166 h
October	4.8 h	148 h
November	3.8 h	113 h
December	3.3 h	103 h

Climate in Albinen

6.9 °Cmean temperature

22.4 °CJuly daily high

−5.5 °CJanuary nightly low

1038 mmrain and snow a year

1399 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1296 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Chippis 1830 h
Hérémence 1820 h
Naters 1820 h
Bellwald 1850 h

Nearby

Inden 1560 h
Leuk 2010 h
Varen 2090 h
Guttet-Feschel 2110 h

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