Sunshine in Emmetten

Emmetten (NW) gets about 1370 hours of sunshine a year, 45% of the possible maximum, or 3.8 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 3% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 9 of 11 places in Nidwalden. That's about 70 hours less than the Nidwalden average of 1440. Mountains around it block about 420 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1370 hsunshine a year

6.6 ha day in July

0.0 ha day in January

#9 / 11in Nidwalden

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: not at all on 21 December, and on 21 June from 06:00 to 20:59.

No direct sun on the 21st of January, November, December.
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 00m later than over a flat horizon (October).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 34m earlier than over a flat horizon (October).

Month	per day	per month
January	0.0 h	0 h
February	1.9 h	54 h
March	4.0 h	125 h
April	5.8 h	173 h
May	5.9 h	182 h
June	6.3 h	190 h
July	6.6 h	205 h
August	6.3 h	196 h
September	4.9 h	146 h
October	3.1 h	95 h
November	0.1 h	3 h
December	0.0 h	0 h

Climate in Emmetten

9.0 °Cmean temperature

23.1 °CJuly daily high

−2.8 °CJanuary nightly low

1372 mmrain and snow a year

1102 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

759 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Nidwalden

Stansstad 1450 h
Dallenwil 1260 h
Ennetmoos 1490 h
Oberdorf (NW) 1500 h

Nearby

Beckenried 1550 h
Gersau 1520 h
Seelisberg 1550 h
Vitznau 1400 h

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