Sunshine in Gurtnellen

Gurtnellen (UR) gets about 960 hours of sunshine a year, 46% of the possible maximum, or 2.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 0% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the least sunny of 19 places in Uri. That's about 310 hours less than the Uri average of 1270. Mountains around it block about 970 hours a year, already taken into account.

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960 hsunshine a year

4.4 ha day in July

1.2 ha day in December

#19 / 19in Uri

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 12:26 to 14:57, and on 21 June from 08:33 to 17:49.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 4h 00m later than over a flat horizon (February).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 3h 08m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.5 h	46 h
February	1.9 h	55 h
March	2.4 h	75 h
April	2.8 h	84 h
May	3.4 h	106 h
June	4.0 h	121 h
July	4.4 h	136 h
August	3.7 h	114 h
September	2.8 h	84 h
October	2.1 h	66 h
November	1.4 h	41 h
December	1.2 h	37 h

Climate in Gurtnellen

7.2 °Cmean temperature

21.3 °CJuly daily high

−5.3 °CJanuary nightly low

1366 mmrain and snow a year

1133 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

732 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Uri

Isenthal 1020 h
Wassen 1110 h
Silenen 1110 h
Göschenen 1200 h

Nearby

Wassen 1110 h
Göschenen 1200 h
Silenen 1110 h
Andermatt 1420 h

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