Sunshine in Ferden

Ferden (VS) gets about 1470 hours of sunshine a year, 53% of the possible maximum, or 4.0 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 6% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 104 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 270 hours less than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 780 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1470 hsunshine a year

6.3 ha day in July

1.8 ha day in December

#104 / 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 11:00 to 14:39, and on 21 June from 06:23 to 18:10.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 57m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 39m later than over a flat horizon (February).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.1 h	65 h
February	2.8 h	79 h
March	3.8 h	118 h
April	4.8 h	143 h
May	5.3 h	165 h
June	6.1 h	182 h
July	6.3 h	197 h
August	5.5 h	170 h
September	4.5 h	134 h
October	3.2 h	98 h
November	2.1 h	64 h
December	1.8 h	54 h

Climate in Ferden

4.0 °Cmean temperature

20.1 °CJuly daily high

−8.3 °CJanuary nightly low

1161 mmrain and snow a year

1453 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1375 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Bovernier 1470 h
Blatten 1470 h
Evionnaz 1460 h
Kippel 1460 h

Nearby

Kippel 1460 h
Wiler (Lötschen) 1510 h
Blatten 1470 h
Steg-Hohtenn 2000 h

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