Sunshine in Grindelwald

Grindelwald (BE) gets about 1460 hours of sunshine a year, 49% of the possible maximum, or 4.0 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 5% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 320 of 334 places in Bern. That's about 210 hours less than the Bern average of 1670. Mountains around it block about 590 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1460 hsunshine a year

6.3 ha day in July

0.3 ha day in December

#320 / 334in Bern

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 15:04 to 15:25, and on 21 June from 07:40 to 20:28.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 6h 30m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 56 min earlier than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.0 h	31 h
February	3.5 h	97 h
March	4.1 h	127 h
April	5.0 h	151 h
May	5.2 h	160 h
June	5.9 h	176 h
July	6.3 h	196 h
August	6.2 h	193 h
September	4.8 h	145 h
October	4.0 h	123 h
November	1.7 h	50 h
December	0.3 h	8 h

Climate in Grindelwald

6.8 °Cmean temperature

20.3 °CJuly daily high

−3.9 °CJanuary nightly low

1410 mmrain and snow a year

1209 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

990 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Bern

Trub 1460 h
Därligen 1460 h
Seehof 1470 h
Innertkirchen 1470 h

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