Sunshine in Fischenthal

Fischenthal (ZH) gets about 1540 hours of sunshine a year, 43% of the possible maximum, or 4.2 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 11% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the least sunny of 160 places in Zurich. That's about 100 hours less than the Zurich average of 1640. Mountains around it block about 240 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1540 hsunshine a year

6.4 ha day in July

2.1 ha day in December

#160 / 160in Zurich

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 08:55 to 15:37, and on 21 June from 06:19 to 19:52.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 11m earlier than over a flat horizon (April).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 46 min later than over a flat horizon (April).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.5 h	77 h
February	3.1 h	86 h
March	4.0 h	125 h
April	5.0 h	150 h
May	5.3 h	165 h
June	6.0 h	181 h
July	6.4 h	198 h
August	5.9 h	182 h
September	4.6 h	138 h
October	3.5 h	108 h
November	2.4 h	71 h
December	2.1 h	65 h

Climate in Fischenthal

8.0 °Cmean temperature

21.9 °CJuly daily high

−4.0 °CJanuary nightly low

1650 mmrain and snow a year

1243 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

758 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Zurich

Flurlingen 1550 h
Stallikon 1560 h
Rorbas 1560 h
Schlatt (ZH) 1560 h

Nearby

Wald (ZH) 1670 h
Bäretswil 1670 h
Hinwil 1700 h
Dürnten 1750 h

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