Swiss SunSunshine in Glarus Süd
Glarus Süd (GL) gets about 1370 hours of sunshine a year, 47% of the possible maximum, or 3.8 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 3% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 2 of 3 places in Glarus. That's about 30 hours less than the Glarus average of 1410. Mountains around it block about 550 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Glarus Süd 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 11:47 to 15:35, and on 21 June from 07:15 to 18:42.
- Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 3h 08m later than over a flat horizon (December).
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 11m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2.1 h | 65 h |
| February | 2.8 h | 79 h |
| March | 3.7 h | 116 h |
| April | 4.7 h | 140 h |
| May | 4.8 h | 149 h |
| June | 5.1 h | 152 h |
| July | 5.4 h | 166 h |
| August | 5.3 h | 163 h |
| September | 4.3 h | 130 h |
| October | 3.3 h | 101 h |
| November | 2.0 h | 61 h |
| December | 1.6 h | 50 h |
Climate in Glarus Süd
Similar sunshine in Glarus
- Glarus 1330 h
- Glarus Nord 1520 h
Nearby
- Glarus 1330 h
- Glarus Nord 1520 h
- Weesen 1670 h
- Innerthal 1510 h
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