Sunshine in Einsiedeln

Einsiedeln (SZ) gets about 1720 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 64% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 4 of 30 places in Schwyz. That's about 120 hours more than the Schwyz average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 100 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1720 hsunshine a year

6.9 ha day in July

2.2 ha day in December

#4 / 30in Schwyz

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 09:31 to 15:52, and on 21 June from 05:55 to 20:47.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 56 min later than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.7 h	85 h
February	3.5 h	99 h
March	4.6 h	144 h
April	5.6 h	169 h
May	5.7 h	176 h
June	6.6 h	197 h
July	6.9 h	214 h
August	6.5 h	201 h
September	5.3 h	158 h
October	4.0 h	125 h
November	2.7 h	80 h
December	2.2 h	69 h

Climate in Einsiedeln

7.2 °Cmean temperature

21.1 °CJuly daily high

−5.3 °CJanuary nightly low

1738 mmrain and snow a year

1231 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

884 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Schwyz

Freienbach 1710 h
Altendorf 1700 h
Lachen 1730 h
Reichenburg 1700 h

Nearby

Feusisberg 1630 h
Rothenthurm 1560 h
Wollerau 1660 h
Freienbach 1710 h

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