Swiss SunSunshine in Fontaines-sur-Grandson
Fontaines-sur-Grandson (VD) gets about 1720 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 66% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 262 of 300 places in Vaud. That's about 100 hours less than the Vaud average of 1820. Mountains around it block about 90 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Fontaines-sur-Grandson on the sunshine mapSunshine 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 08:46 to 16:19, and on 21 June from 06:15 to 19:59.
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 05m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2.3 h | 70 h |
| February | 3.3 h | 92 h |
| March | 4.6 h | 143 h |
| April | 5.6 h | 167 h |
| May | 6.1 h | 189 h |
| June | 7.1 h | 212 h |
| July | 7.6 h | 235 h |
| August | 7.0 h | 217 h |
| September | 5.4 h | 163 h |
| October | 3.5 h | 108 h |
| November | 2.3 h | 68 h |
| December | 2.0 h | 61 h |
Climate in Fontaines-sur-Grandson
Similar sunshine in Vaud
- Tévenon 1720 h
- Mollens (VD) 1720 h
- Moudon 1720 h
- Ormont-Dessus 1730 h
Nearby
- Fiez 1740 h
- Grandevent 1680 h
- Tévenon 1720 h
- Novalles 1700 h
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