Sunshine in Amden

Amden (SG) gets about 1680 hours of sunshine a year, 46% of the possible maximum, or 4.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 56% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 19 of 75 places in St. Gallen. That's about 30 hours more than the St. Gallen average of 1650. Mountains around it block about 240 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1680 hsunshine a year

6.0 ha day in July

2.8 ha day in December

#19 / 75in St. Gallen

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 08:51 to 16:04, and on 21 June from 06:45 to 19:21.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 38m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 53 min later than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	3.4 h	105 h
February	4.0 h	112 h
March	4.5 h	139 h
April	5.2 h	157 h
May	5.3 h	165 h
June	5.7 h	171 h
July	6.0 h	186 h
August	5.8 h	179 h
September	5.1 h	153 h
October	4.3 h	133 h
November	3.1 h	94 h
December	2.8 h	88 h

Climate in Amden

7.1 °Cmean temperature

21.1 °CJuly daily high

−4.6 °CJanuary nightly low

1884 mmrain and snow a year

1238 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

902 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in St. Gallen

Neckertal 1680 h
Altstätten 1680 h
Rheineck 1680 h
Flawil 1680 h

Nearby

Weesen 1670 h
Glarus 1330 h
Glarus Nord 1520 h
Schänis 1490 h

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