Sunshine in Benken (ZH)

Benken (ZH) gets about 1610 hours of sunshine a year, 40% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 27% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 130 of 160 places in Zurich. That's about 30 hours less than the Zurich average of 1640. Mountains around it block about 30 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1610 hsunshine a year

7.6 ha day in July

1.1 ha day in December

#130 / 160in Zurich

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 08:45 to 16:04, and on 21 June from 06:16 to 20:56.

Month	per day	per month
January	1.5 h	45 h
February	2.8 h	79 h
March	4.3 h	134 h
April	5.8 h	173 h
May	6.3 h	196 h
June	7.2 h	215 h
July	7.6 h	234 h
August	7.0 h	216 h
September	5.2 h	155 h
October	2.9 h	88 h
November	1.5 h	44 h
December	1.1 h	34 h

Climate in Benken (ZH)

9.9 °Cmean temperature

25.2 °CJuly daily high

−1.8 °CJanuary nightly low

917 mmrain and snow a year

1242 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

422 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Zurich

Bonstetten 1610 h
Regensberg 1610 h
Pfungen 1610 h
Stadel 1620 h

Nearby

Laufen-Uhwiesen 1620 h
Marthalen 1640 h
Trüllikon 1600 h
Dachsen 1640 h

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