Swiss Sun

Sunshine in Gelterkinden

Gelterkinden (BL) gets about 1670 hours of sunshine a year, 42% of the possible maximum, or 4.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 51% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 30 of 86 places in Basel-Landschaft. That's about 50 hours more than the Basel-Landschaft average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 30 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1670 hsunshine a year
7.5 ha day in July
1.7 ha day in December
#30 / 86in Basel-Landschaft

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.

0h5h10h15hJanuary: 2.0 h a dayFebruary: 3.0 h a dayMarch: 4.2 h a dayApril: 5.6 h a dayMay: 6.1 h a dayJune: 7.0 h a dayJuly: 7.5 h a dayAugust: 7.0 h a daySeptember: 5.3 h a dayOctober: 3.3 h a dayNovember: 2.0 h a dayDecember: 1.7 h a dayJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Direct sun at the centre on a clear day, with the mountains around it: on 21 December from 08:48 to 15:39, and on 21 June from 06:03 to 20:46.

Monthper dayper month
January2.0 h63 h
February3.0 h85 h
March4.2 h132 h
April5.6 h168 h
May6.1 h188 h
June7.0 h209 h
July7.5 h232 h
August7.0 h216 h
September5.3 h159 h
October3.3 h103 h
November2.0 h59 h
December1.7 h54 h

Climate in Gelterkinden

10.3 °Cmean temperature
24.4 °CJuly daily high
−1.1 °CJanuary nightly low
994 mmrain and snow a year
1228 kWh/m²solar radiation a year
403 mabove sea level

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