Sunshine in Embd

Embd (VS) gets about 1730 hours of sunshine a year, 56% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 67% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 62 of 123 places in Valais. Mountains around it block about 640 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1730 hsunshine a year

7.1 ha day in July

2.3 ha day in December

#62 / 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 10:42 to 15:16, and on 21 June from 06:18 to 18:18.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 48m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 14m later than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.7 h	85 h
February	3.8 h	107 h
March	4.7 h	146 h
April	5.4 h	162 h
May	5.8 h	178 h
June	6.6 h	199 h
July	7.1 h	219 h
August	6.5 h	202 h
September	5.3 h	159 h
October	4.0 h	124 h
November	2.6 h	79 h
December	2.3 h	71 h

Climate in Embd

4.8 °Cmean temperature

19.7 °CJuly daily high

−6.2 °CJanuary nightly low

752 mmrain and snow a year

1446 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1376 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Bitsch 1730 h
Salvan 1740 h
Termen 1720 h
Oberems 1750 h

Nearby

Grächen 1610 h
Törbel 1980 h
Stalden (VS) 1520 h
St. Niklaus 1310 h

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