Sunshine in Galgenen

Galgenen (SZ) gets about 1680 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 4.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 55% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 10 of 30 places in Schwyz. That's about 80 hours more than the Schwyz average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 110 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1680 hsunshine a year

7.3 ha day in July

1.4 ha day in December

#10 / 30in Schwyz

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 09:22 to 14:20, and on 21 June from 06:00 to 20:53.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 46m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 50 min later than over a flat horizon (January).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.9 h	58 h
February	3.1 h	85 h
March	4.5 h	140 h
April	5.8 h	173 h
May	6.0 h	185 h
June	6.9 h	208 h
July	7.3 h	227 h
August	6.8 h	211 h
September	5.4 h	163 h
October	3.8 h	118 h
November	2.2 h	65 h
December	1.4 h	45 h

Climate in Galgenen

9.6 °Cmean temperature

23.9 °CJuly daily high

−1.9 °CJanuary nightly low

1548 mmrain and snow a year

1180 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

447 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Schwyz

Steinerberg 1680 h
Schübelbach 1680 h
Oberiberg 1670 h
Reichenburg 1700 h

Nearby

Wangen (SZ) 1730 h
Schübelbach 1680 h
Lachen 1730 h
Altendorf 1700 h

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