Sunshine in Arbedo-Castione

Arbedo-Castione (TI) gets about 1590 hours of sunshine a year, 54% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 19% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 81 of 101 places in Ticino. That's about 290 hours less than the Ticino average of 1880. Mountains around it block about 620 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1590 hsunshine a year

6.7 ha day in July

2.2 ha day in December

#81 / 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 12:09 to 16:03, and on 21 June from 07:58 to 19:32.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 3h 31m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 16m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.7 h	83 h
February	3.6 h	101 h
March	4.4 h	138 h
April	4.9 h	148 h
May	5.3 h	163 h
June	6.1 h	182 h
July	6.7 h	208 h
August	6.2 h	191 h
September	4.7 h	142 h
October	3.1 h	97 h
November	2.3 h	70 h
December	2.2 h	67 h

Climate in Arbedo-Castione

11.8 °Cmean temperature

27.9 °CJuly daily high

−2.0 °CJanuary nightly low

1557 mmrain and snow a year

1337 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

266 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Ticino

Val Mara 1590 h
Maggia 1590 h
Cerentino 1610 h
Avegno Gordevio 1620 h

Nearby

Lumino 1680 h
Bellinzona 1780 h
San Vittore 1700 h
Roveredo (GR) 1600 h

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