Sunshine in Bourg-Saint-Pierre

Bourg-Saint-Pierre (VS) gets about 1380 hours of sunshine a year, 50% of the possible maximum, or 3.8 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 3% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 114 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 350 hours less than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 770 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1380 hsunshine a year

5.5 ha day in July

2.1 ha day in December

#114 / 123in Valais

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 10:32 to 14:48, and on 21 June from 09:02 to 19:35.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 3h 06m later than over a flat horizon (June).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 04m earlier than over a flat horizon (March).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.5 h	79 h
February	3.1 h	88 h
March	3.9 h	120 h
April	4.0 h	120 h
May	4.2 h	129 h
June	5.0 h	149 h
July	5.5 h	169 h
August	5.2 h	161 h
September	4.2 h	127 h
October	3.3 h	103 h
November	2.4 h	71 h
December	2.1 h	66 h

Climate in Bourg-Saint-Pierre

4.4 °Cmean temperature

16.9 °CJuly daily high

−5.6 °CJanuary nightly low

975 mmrain and snow a year

1447 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1627 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Binn 1400 h
Leukerbad 1340 h
Saas-Grund 1430 h
Collonges 1440 h

Nearby

Liddes 1580 h
Orsières 1550 h
Sembrancher 1710 h
Val de Bagnes 1700 h

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