Sunshine in Erstfeld

Erstfeld (UR) gets about 1200 hours of sunshine a year, 47% of the possible maximum, or 3.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 1% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 14 of 19 places in Uri. That's about 70 hours less than the Uri average of 1270. Mountains around it block about 730 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1200 hsunshine a year

4.7 ha day in July

1.4 ha day in December

#14 / 19in Uri

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 09:46 to 13:09, and on 21 June from 08:58 to 18:46.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 3h 01m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 57m later than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.7 h	54 h
February	2.4 h	67 h
March	3.5 h	109 h
April	4.1 h	123 h
May	4.1 h	126 h
June	4.5 h	134 h
July	4.7 h	145 h
August	4.6 h	142 h
September	4.0 h	120 h
October	2.9 h	89 h
November	1.7 h	50 h
December	1.4 h	43 h

Climate in Erstfeld

9.7 °Cmean temperature

23.7 °CJuly daily high

−2.3 °CJanuary nightly low

1383 mmrain and snow a year

1105 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

465 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Uri

Unterschächen 1210 h
Göschenen 1200 h
Sisikon 1250 h
Seedorf (UR) 1290 h

Nearby

Silenen 1110 h
Attinghausen 1370 h
Schattdorf 1350 h
Bürglen (UR) 1470 h

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