Sunshine in Beckenried

Beckenried (NW) gets about 1550 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 4.2 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 11% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 4 of 11 places in Nidwalden. That's about 110 hours more than the Nidwalden average of 1440. Mountains around it block about 220 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1550 hsunshine a year

6.6 ha day in July

1.0 ha day in December

#4 / 11in Nidwalden

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 11:05 to 14:12, and on 21 June from 06:19 to 20:46.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 24m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 09m earlier than over a flat horizon (February).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.5 h	45 h
February	2.6 h	74 h
March	4.4 h	136 h
April	6.0 h	181 h
May	6.1 h	190 h
June	6.2 h	186 h
July	6.6 h	204 h
August	6.5 h	201 h
September	5.3 h	158 h
October	3.1 h	95 h
November	1.7 h	50 h
December	1.0 h	31 h

Climate in Beckenried

9.9 °Cmean temperature

24.4 °CJuly daily high

−1.9 °CJanuary nightly low

1320 mmrain and snow a year

1110 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

459 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Nidwalden

Buochs 1550 h
Ennetbürgen 1560 h
Stans 1570 h
Hergiswil (NW) 1510 h

Nearby

Buochs 1550 h
Emmetten 1370 h
Ennetbürgen 1560 h
Vitznau 1400 h

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