Sunshine in Grandevent

Grandevent (VD) gets about 1680 hours of sunshine a year, 43% of the possible maximum, or 4.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 55% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 286 of 300 places in Vaud. That's about 140 hours less than the Vaud average of 1820. Mountains around it block about 140 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1680 hsunshine a year

7.1 ha day in July

2.2 ha day in December

#286 / 300in Vaud

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 08:45 to 16:22, and on 21 June from 06:20 to 19:22.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 43m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.4 h	75 h
February	3.3 h	93 h
March	4.5 h	140 h
April	5.4 h	161 h
May	5.8 h	179 h
June	6.6 h	198 h
July	7.1 h	221 h
August	6.7 h	207 h
September	5.3 h	159 h
October	3.5 h	109 h
November	2.3 h	70 h
December	2.2 h	67 h

Climate in Grandevent

9.2 °Cmean temperature

22.9 °CJuly daily high

−2.0 °CJanuary nightly low

1132 mmrain and snow a year

1274 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

686 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Vaud

Mutrux 1680 h
Molondin 1670 h
Rennaz 1670 h
Montricher 1690 h

Nearby

Fontaines-sur-Grandson 1720 h
Novalles 1700 h
Tévenon 1720 h
Fiez 1740 h

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