Sunshine in Bönigen

Bönigen (BE) gets about 1580 hours of sunshine a year, 47% of the possible maximum, or 4.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 18% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 282 of 334 places in Bern. That's about 80 hours less than the Bern average of 1670. Mountains around it block about 350 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1580 hsunshine a year

6.9 ha day in July

1.3 ha day in December

#282 / 334in Bern

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 12:01 to 15:38, and on 21 June from 06:06 to 20:03.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 3h 21m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 55 min earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.7 h	53 h
February	3.2 h	89 h
March	4.3 h	135 h
April	5.3 h	159 h
May	5.8 h	179 h
June	6.3 h	190 h
July	6.9 h	213 h
August	6.3 h	194 h
September	5.2 h	157 h
October	3.7 h	115 h
November	1.9 h	58 h
December	1.3 h	41 h

Climate in Bönigen

9.2 °Cmean temperature

24.3 °CJuly daily high

−2.8 °CJanuary nightly low

1216 mmrain and snow a year

1215 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

568 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Bern

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Pohlern 1580 h

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