Sunshine in Glarus Nord

Glarus Nord (GL) gets about 1520 hours of sunshine a year, 47% of the possible maximum, or 4.2 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 8% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the sunniest of 3 places in Glarus. That's about 110 hours more than the Glarus average of 1410. Mountains around it block about 390 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1520 hsunshine a year

6.5 ha day in July

1.4 ha day in December

#1 / 3in Glarus

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 09:37 to 13:34, and on 21 June from 06:25 to 19:22.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 35m earlier than over a flat horizon (January).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 56 min later than over a flat horizon (February).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.8 h	55 h
February	2.6 h	74 h
March	3.9 h	121 h
April	5.4 h	163 h
May	5.6 h	172 h
June	6.1 h	184 h
July	6.5 h	201 h
August	6.3 h	194 h
September	5.0 h	150 h
October	3.3 h	101 h
November	1.9 h	58 h
December	1.4 h	44 h

Climate in Glarus Nord

9.8 °Cmean temperature

24.2 °CJuly daily high

−2.4 °CJanuary nightly low

1566 mmrain and snow a year

1187 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

432 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Glarus

Glarus Süd 1370 h
Glarus 1330 h

Nearby

Glarus 1330 h
Weesen 1670 h
Schänis 1490 h
Amden 1680 h

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