Sunshine in Châtillon (JU)

Châtillon (JU) gets about 1590 hours of sunshine a year, 42% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 20% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 43 of 51 places in Jura. That's about 50 hours less than the Jura average of 1640. Mountains around it block about 90 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1590 hsunshine a year

7.3 ha day in July

1.3 ha day in December

#43 / 51in Jura

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 10:35 to 15:09, and on 21 June from 06:04 to 21:01.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 47m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 04m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.8 h	54 h
February	2.8 h	78 h
March	4.2 h	130 h
April	5.2 h	157 h
May	5.6 h	172 h
June	6.7 h	202 h
July	7.3 h	227 h
August	6.8 h	212 h
September	5.3 h	159 h
October	3.5 h	107 h
November	1.8 h	54 h
December	1.3 h	41 h

Climate in Châtillon (JU)

8.9 °Cmean temperature

24.0 °CJuly daily high

−2.6 °CJanuary nightly low

1068 mmrain and snow a year

1207 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

521 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Jura

Boécourt 1600 h
Moutier 1590 h
Ederswiler 1580 h
Saint-Brais 1610 h

Nearby

Rossemaison 1650 h
Courtételle 1660 h
Courrendlin 1620 h
Delémont 1680 h

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