Sunshine in Grächen

Grächen (VS) gets about 1610 hours of sunshine a year, 54% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 24% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 82 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 130 hours less than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 690 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1610 hsunshine a year

6.9 ha day in July

1.8 ha day in December

#82 / 123in Valais

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 11:57 to 15:22, and on 21 June from 07:09 to 19:45.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 3h 32m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 24m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.3 h	72 h
February	3.5 h	97 h
March	4.4 h	135 h
April	5.0 h	150 h
May	5.3 h	165 h
June	6.5 h	194 h
July	6.9 h	213 h
August	6.3 h	194 h
September	5.0 h	150 h
October	3.6 h	112 h
November	2.3 h	68 h
December	1.8 h	55 h

Climate in Grächen

5.5 °Cmean temperature

20.4 °CJuly daily high

−5.4 °CJanuary nightly low

688 mmrain and snow a year

1361 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1632 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Agarn 1620 h
Ergisch 1620 h
Saint-Gingolph 1590 h
Grengiols 1590 h

Nearby

Embd 1730 h
St. Niklaus 1310 h
Eisten 1010 h
Stalden (VS) 1520 h

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