Sunshine in Altendorf

Altendorf (SZ) gets about 1700 hours of sunshine a year, 43% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 62% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 6 of 30 places in Schwyz. That's about 100 hours more than the Schwyz average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 50 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1700 hsunshine a year

7.3 ha day in July

1.5 ha day in December

#6 / 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 09:06 to 14:49, and on 21 June from 05:59 to 20:54.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 18m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.9 h	60 h
February	3.2 h	89 h
March	4.6 h	142 h
April	5.9 h	178 h
May	6.2 h	192 h
June	7.0 h	209 h
July	7.3 h	227 h
August	6.9 h	214 h
September	5.5 h	166 h
October	3.7 h	115 h
November	2.1 h	63 h
December	1.5 h	46 h

Climate in Altendorf

10.1 °Cmean temperature

24.5 °CJuly daily high

−1.4 °CJanuary nightly low

1468 mmrain and snow a year

1157 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

439 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Schwyz

Reichenburg 1700 h
Freienbach 1710 h
Einsiedeln 1720 h
Schübelbach 1680 h

Nearby

Lachen 1730 h
Galgenen 1680 h
Freienbach 1710 h
Rapperswil-Jona 1760 h

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