Swiss SunSunshine in Gruyères
Gruyères (FR) gets about 1710 hours of sunshine a year, 47% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 64% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 113 of 120 places in Fribourg. That's about 90 hours less than the Fribourg average of 1800. Mountains around it block about 230 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Gruyères on the sunshine mapSunshine 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 09:42 to 14:59, and on 21 June from 06:08 to 20:57.
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 23m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
- Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 01m later than over a flat horizon (December).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2.5 h | 77 h |
| February | 3.5 h | 99 h |
| March | 4.5 h | 140 h |
| April | 5.2 h | 156 h |
| May | 5.8 h | 179 h |
| June | 7.1 h | 212 h |
| July | 7.4 h | 230 h |
| August | 6.6 h | 203 h |
| September | 5.3 h | 159 h |
| October | 3.9 h | 122 h |
| November | 2.4 h | 73 h |
| December | 2.0 h | 63 h |
Climate in Gruyères
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Nearby
- Le Pâquier (FR) 1740 h
- Bas-Intyamon 1600 h
- Broc 1770 h
- Bulle 1860 h
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