Sunshine in Grabs

Grabs (SG) gets about 1670 hours of sunshine a year, 46% of the possible maximum, or 4.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 54% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 24 of 75 places in St. Gallen. That's about 30 hours more than the St. Gallen average of 1650. Mountains around it block about 210 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1670 hsunshine a year

6.9 ha day in July

1.8 ha day in December

#24 / 75in St. Gallen

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 08:59 to 14:13, and on 21 June from 05:56 to 20:13.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 52m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 36 min later than over a flat horizon (March).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.3 h	71 h
February	3.4 h	95 h
March	4.5 h	138 h
April	5.5 h	166 h
May	5.9 h	183 h
June	6.5 h	196 h
July	6.9 h	215 h
August	6.5 h	200 h
September	5.3 h	158 h
October	4.0 h	125 h
November	2.4 h	71 h
December	1.8 h	56 h

Climate in Grabs

10.1 °Cmean temperature

24.5 °CJuly daily high

−2.3 °CJanuary nightly low

1254 mmrain and snow a year

1189 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

475 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in St. Gallen

Eichberg 1670 h
Flawil 1680 h
Rheineck 1680 h
Weesen 1670 h

Nearby

Gams 1670 h
Buchs (SG) 1580 h
Schaan 1520 h
Gamprin 1700 h

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