Sunshine in Giswil

Giswil (OW) gets about 1280 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 3.5 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 2% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 6 of 7 places in Obwalden. That's about 150 hours less than the Obwalden average of 1440. Mountains around it block about 500 hours a year, already taken into account.

Explore Giswil on the sunshine map

1280 hsunshine a year

5.9 ha day in July

1.0 ha day in December

#6 / 7in Obwalden

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 12:08 to 15:16, and on 21 June from 07:35 to 20:20.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 3h 28m later than over a flat horizon (January).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 12m earlier than over a flat horizon (October).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.3 h	39 h
February	2.1 h	58 h
March	3.4 h	105 h
April	4.7 h	142 h
May	5.2 h	160 h
June	5.5 h	164 h
July	5.9 h	183 h
August	5.5 h	169 h
September	4.1 h	123 h
October	2.3 h	72 h
November	1.2 h	37 h
December	1.0 h	31 h

Climate in Giswil

9.8 °Cmean temperature

23.9 °CJuly daily high

−1.8 °CJanuary nightly low

1220 mmrain and snow a year

1156 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

497 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Obwalden

Lungern 1270 h
Engelberg 1360 h
Sachseln 1490 h
Kerns 1520 h

Nearby

Lungern 1270 h
Sachseln 1490 h
Sarnen 1550 h
Hasliberg 1730 h

All 7 places in Obwalden ranked by sunshine · Sunniest towns in Switzerland · Look up any address in Giswil