Sunshine in Châtel-sur-Montsalvens

Châtel-sur-Montsalvens (FR) gets about 1850 hours of sunshine a year, 47% of the possible maximum, or 5.1 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 86% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 23 of 120 places in Fribourg. That's about 50 hours more than the Fribourg average of 1800. Mountains around it block about 130 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1850 hsunshine a year

7.0 ha day in July

2.6 ha day in December

#23 / 120in Fribourg

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 09:54 to 16:07, and on 21 June from 06:09 to 20:20.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 15m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 45 min earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	3.3 h	103 h
February	4.2 h	118 h
March	5.0 h	156 h
April	5.5 h	165 h
May	5.8 h	179 h
June	6.7 h	200 h
July	7.0 h	218 h
August	6.7 h	208 h
September	5.9 h	176 h
October	4.7 h	145 h
November	3.3 h	100 h
December	2.6 h	82 h

Climate in Châtel-sur-Montsalvens

8.0 °Cmean temperature

22.3 °CJuly daily high

−3.6 °CJanuary nightly low

1398 mmrain and snow a year

1267 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

909 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Fribourg

Rue 1850 h
Marly 1850 h
Echarlens 1850 h
Ursy 1850 h

Nearby

Botterens 1580 h
Crésuz 1830 h
Broc 1770 h
Val-de-Charmey 1740 h

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