Swiss SunSunshine in Heiden
Heiden (AR) gets about 1660 hours of sunshine a year, 42% of the possible maximum, or 4.5 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 48% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 14 of 20 places in Appenzell Ausserrhoden. That's about 10 hours less than the Appenzell Ausserrhoden average of 1670. Mountains around it block about 70 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Heiden 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 08:43 to 15:32, and on 21 June from 05:51 to 20:45.
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 37 min earlier than over a flat horizon (January).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2.4 h | 75 h |
| February | 3.1 h | 88 h |
| March | 4.4 h | 136 h |
| April | 5.6 h | 168 h |
| May | 5.9 h | 183 h |
| June | 6.5 h | 196 h |
| July | 7.1 h | 220 h |
| August | 6.6 h | 205 h |
| September | 5.1 h | 154 h |
| October | 3.5 h | 109 h |
| November | 2.2 h | 65 h |
| December | 2.0 h | 62 h |
Climate in Heiden
Similar sunshine in Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- Speicher 1660 h
- Lutzenberg 1650 h
- Herisau 1670 h
- Waldstatt 1680 h
Nearby
- Grub (AR) 1620 h
- Wolfhalden 1680 h
- Oberegg 1700 h
- Reute (AR) 1680 h
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