Sunshine in Alpnach

Alpnach (OW) gets about 1590 hours of sunshine a year, 43% of the possible maximum, or 4.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 19% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the sunniest of 7 places in Obwalden. That's about 150 hours more than the Obwalden average of 1440. Mountains around it block about 200 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1590 hsunshine a year

6.4 ha day in July

1.8 ha day in December

#1 / 7in Obwalden

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 09:33 to 15:29, and on 21 June from 06:00 to 20:03.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 08m earlier than over a flat horizon (February).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 53 min later than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.2 h	67 h
February	3.2 h	89 h
March	4.3 h	134 h
April	5.7 h	170 h
May	6.0 h	184 h
June	6.0 h	181 h
July	6.4 h	198 h
August	6.1 h	189 h
September	4.9 h	147 h
October	3.4 h	105 h
November	2.2 h	65 h
December	1.8 h	56 h

Climate in Alpnach

9.7 °Cmean temperature

24.0 °CJuly daily high

−1.9 °CJanuary nightly low

1256 mmrain and snow a year

1195 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

564 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Obwalden

Sarnen 1550 h
Kerns 1520 h
Sachseln 1490 h
Engelberg 1360 h

Nearby

Kerns 1520 h
Sarnen 1550 h
Ennetmoos 1490 h
Hergiswil (NW) 1510 h

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