Sunshine in Grandson

Grandson (VD) gets about 1750 hours of sunshine a year, 43% of the possible maximum, or 4.8 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 70% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 240 of 300 places in Vaud. That's about 70 hours less than the Vaud average of 1820. Mountains around it block about 20 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1750 hsunshine a year

8.1 ha day in July

1.4 ha day in December

#240 / 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 08:48 to 16:17, and on 21 June from 06:10 to 20:42.

Month	per day	per month
January	1.7 h	53 h
February	3.1 h	87 h
March	4.8 h	148 h
April	5.9 h	176 h
May	6.5 h	201 h
June	7.7 h	230 h
July	8.1 h	252 h
August	7.4 h	229 h
September	5.5 h	166 h
October	3.3 h	103 h
November	2.0 h	61 h
December	1.4 h	44 h

Climate in Grandson

10.1 °Cmean temperature

24.2 °CJuly daily high

−1.0 °CJanuary nightly low

951 mmrain and snow a year

1289 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

436 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Vaud

Giez 1750 h
Treycovagnes 1750 h
Bofflens 1750 h
Yvorne 1750 h

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