Sunshine in Bichelsee-Balterswil

Bichelsee-Balterswil (TG) gets about 1600 hours of sunshine a year, 41% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 23% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 68 of 80 places in Thurgau. That's about 20 hours less than the Thurgau average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 60 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1600 hsunshine a year

7.3 ha day in July

1.4 ha day in December

#68 / 80in Thurgau

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 09:20 to 15:54, and on 21 June from 05:56 to 20:35.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 41 min later than over a flat horizon (November).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.8 h	57 h
February	2.7 h	77 h
March	4.3 h	134 h
April	5.6 h	169 h
May	5.8 h	181 h
June	6.8 h	203 h
July	7.3 h	226 h
August	6.9 h	213 h
September	5.1 h	152 h
October	3.0 h	94 h
November	1.7 h	52 h
December	1.4 h	44 h

Climate in Bichelsee-Balterswil

8.9 °Cmean temperature

23.7 °CJuly daily high

−2.9 °CJanuary nightly low

1290 mmrain and snow a year

1232 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

578 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Thurgau

Bottighofen 1600 h
Stettfurt 1600 h
Wagenhausen 1600 h
Herdern 1600 h

Nearby

Eschlikon 1650 h
Fischingen 1600 h
Sirnach 1630 h
Aadorf 1640 h

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