Sunshine in Alpthal

Alpthal (SZ) gets about 1430 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 3.9 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 4% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 28 of 30 places in Schwyz. That's about 170 hours less than the Schwyz average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 410 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1430 hsunshine a year

5.8 ha day in July

1.9 ha day in December

#28 / 30in Schwyz

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 09:41 to 14:22, and on 21 June from 06:41 to 19:59.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 02m earlier than over a flat horizon (November).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 09m later than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.2 h	70 h
February	3.2 h	89 h
March	3.7 h	116 h
April	4.5 h	135 h
May	4.7 h	145 h
June	5.6 h	167 h
July	5.8 h	179 h
August	5.2 h	160 h
September	4.2 h	127 h
October	3.7 h	115 h
November	2.2 h	67 h
December	1.9 h	58 h

Climate in Alpthal

6.4 °Cmean temperature

19.7 °CJuly daily high

−5.0 °CJanuary nightly low

2033 mmrain and snow a year

1212 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1098 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Schwyz

Morschach 1430 h
Muotathal 1410 h
Vorderthal 1460 h
Innerthal 1510 h

Nearby

Schwyz 1630 h
Sattel 1590 h
Oberiberg 1670 h
Illgau 1630 h

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