Sunshine in Alto Malcantone

Alto Malcantone (TI) gets about 2220 hours of sunshine a year, 55% of the possible maximum, or 6.1 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 100% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 5 of 101 places in Ticino. That's about 340 hours more than the Ticino average of 1880. Mountains around it block about 100 hours a year, already taken into account.

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2220 hsunshine a year

8.6 ha day in July

4.1 ha day in November

#5 / 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 08:29 to 16:18, and on 21 June from 06:10 to 20:02.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 54 min earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	4.9 h	151 h
February	5.6 h	158 h
March	6.1 h	188 h
April	5.9 h	178 h
May	6.5 h	202 h
June	7.9 h	236 h
July	8.6 h	268 h
August	7.9 h	246 h
September	6.2 h	185 h
October	4.8 h	150 h
November	4.1 h	124 h
December	4.3 h	133 h

Climate in Alto Malcantone

9.6 °Cmean temperature

24.3 °CJuly daily high

−2.7 °CJanuary nightly low

1870 mmrain and snow a year

1381 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

851 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Ticino

Novazzano 2220 h
Coldrerio 2220 h
Stabio 2220 h
Balerna 2200 h

Nearby

Bedano 1850 h
Gravesano 1940 h
Manno 1990 h
Lamone 2000 h

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