Swiss SunSunshine in Benken (SG)
Benken (SG) gets about 1760 hours of sunshine a year, 45% of the possible maximum, or 4.8 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 71% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 10 of 75 places in St. Gallen. That's about 110 hours more than the St. Gallen average of 1650. Mountains around it block about 80 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Benken (SG) on the sunshine mapSunshine 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 09:12 to 15:43, and on 21 June from 06:16 to 20:53.
- Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 42 min later than over a flat horizon (October).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2.3 h | 71 h |
| February | 3.3 h | 94 h |
| March | 4.6 h | 143 h |
| April | 5.9 h | 177 h |
| May | 6.2 h | 193 h |
| June | 7.0 h | 210 h |
| July | 7.4 h | 228 h |
| August | 6.8 h | 212 h |
| September | 5.5 h | 166 h |
| October | 4.0 h | 125 h |
| November | 2.7 h | 80 h |
| December | 1.8 h | 57 h |
Climate in Benken (SG)
Similar sunshine in St. Gallen
- Oberriet (SG) 1760 h
- Rapperswil-Jona 1760 h
- Uznach 1760 h
- Schmerikon 1760 h
Nearby
- Kaltbrunn 1730 h
- Uznach 1760 h
- Reichenburg 1700 h
- Tuggen 1750 h
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