Sunshine in Faido

Faido (TI) gets about 1540 hours of sunshine a year, 51% of the possible maximum, or 4.2 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 10% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 85 of 101 places in Ticino. That's about 340 hours less than the Ticino average of 1880. Mountains around it block about 610 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1540 hsunshine a year

5.7 ha day in July

2.0 ha day in December

#85 / 101in Ticino

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 08:47 to 12:23, and on 21 June from 07:34 to 18:22.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 3h 53m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 37m later than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.6 h	82 h
February	3.9 h	108 h
March	5.2 h	161 h
April	4.8 h	145 h
May	4.5 h	138 h
June	5.2 h	157 h
July	5.7 h	176 h
August	5.4 h	166 h
September	5.1 h	153 h
October	3.8 h	117 h
November	2.3 h	70 h
December	2.0 h	63 h

Climate in Faido

9.8 °Cmean temperature

25.2 °CJuly daily high

−2.2 °CJanuary nightly low

1470 mmrain and snow a year

1194 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

790 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Ticino

Dalpe 1550 h
Maggia 1590 h
Val Mara 1590 h
Arbedo-Castione 1590 h

Nearby

Giornico 1330 h
Dalpe 1550 h
Personico 1140 h
Acquarossa 1350 h

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