Sunshine in Göschenen

Göschenen (UR) gets about 1200 hours of sunshine a year, 48% of the possible maximum, or 3.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 1% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 15 of 19 places in Uri. That's about 80 hours less than the Uri average of 1270. Mountains around it block about 800 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1200 hsunshine a year

5.7 ha day in July

0.8 ha day in December

#15 / 19in Uri

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 12:05 to 13:39, and on 21 June from 08:01 to 19:13.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 3h 36m later than over a flat horizon (January).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 49m earlier than over a flat horizon (October).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.0 h	32 h
February	1.7 h	48 h
March	3.6 h	111 h
April	4.1 h	123 h
May	4.4 h	137 h
June	5.2 h	155 h
July	5.7 h	177 h
August	5.4 h	167 h
September	4.1 h	123 h
October	2.3 h	72 h
November	0.9 h	28 h
December	0.8 h	24 h

Climate in Göschenen

5.1 °Cmean temperature

19.1 °CJuly daily high

−7.7 °CJanuary nightly low

1376 mmrain and snow a year

1237 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1101 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Uri

Erstfeld 1200 h
Unterschächen 1210 h
Sisikon 1250 h
Silenen 1110 h

Nearby

Andermatt 1420 h
Wassen 1110 h
Hospental 1290 h
Gurtnellen 960 h

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