Sunshine in Grenchen

Grenchen (SO) gets about 1650 hours of sunshine a year, 42% of the possible maximum, or 4.5 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 46% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 38 of 104 places in Solothurn. That's about 30 hours more than the Solothurn average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 80 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1650 hsunshine a year

7.1 ha day in July

1.6 ha day in December

#38 / 104in Solothurn

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 08:46 to 16:13, and on 21 June from 06:07 to 19:54.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 07m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.0 h	62 h
February	3.0 h	85 h
March	4.5 h	139 h
April	5.6 h	168 h
May	6.0 h	185 h
June	6.6 h	198 h
July	7.1 h	219 h
August	6.6 h	206 h
September	5.3 h	160 h
October	3.6 h	112 h
November	2.3 h	69 h
December	1.6 h	51 h

Climate in Grenchen

9.2 °Cmean temperature

24.6 °CJuly daily high

−2.6 °CJanuary nightly low

1354 mmrain and snow a year

1243 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

506 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Solothurn

Seewen 1650 h
Breitenbach 1650 h
Zuchwil 1660 h
Riedholz 1660 h

Nearby

Lengnau (BE) 1660 h
Bettlach 1670 h
Romont (BE) 1640 h
Pieterlen 1630 h

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