Sunshine in Egg

Egg (ZH) gets about 1640 hours of sunshine a year, 42% of the possible maximum, or 4.5 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 39% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 95 of 160 places in Zurich. Mountains around it block about 70 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1640 hsunshine a year

7.4 ha day in July

1.4 ha day in December

#95 / 160in Zurich

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 08:41 to 15:20, and on 21 June from 05:59 to 20:44.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 48 min earlier than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.8 h	55 h
February	2.9 h	81 h
March	4.3 h	134 h
April	5.6 h	169 h
May	6.0 h	185 h
June	7.0 h	210 h
July	7.4 h	229 h
August	6.8 h	211 h
September	5.1 h	154 h
October	3.3 h	103 h
November	2.0 h	61 h
December	1.4 h	43 h

Climate in Egg

9.6 °Cmean temperature

24.2 °CJuly daily high

−1.7 °CJanuary nightly low

1275 mmrain and snow a year

1236 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

529 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Zurich

Otelfingen 1640 h
Hettlingen 1640 h
Dachsen 1640 h
Dinhard 1640 h

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