Sunshine in Hitzkirch

Hitzkirch (LU) gets about 1560 hours of sunshine a year, 40% of the possible maximum, or 4.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 13% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 65 of 79 places in Lucerne. That's about 30 hours less than the Lucerne average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 80 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1560 hsunshine a year

6.9 ha day in July

1.4 ha day in December

#65 / 79in Lucerne

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 08:43 to 16:01, and on 21 June from 06:48 to 20:57.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 48 min later than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.8 h	56 h
February	2.9 h	82 h
March	4.3 h	135 h
April	5.3 h	159 h
May	5.5 h	171 h
June	6.5 h	194 h
July	6.9 h	215 h
August	6.4 h	200 h
September	4.9 h	148 h
October	3.2 h	99 h
November	1.9 h	58 h
December	1.4 h	44 h

Climate in Hitzkirch

9.7 °Cmean temperature

24.4 °CJuly daily high

−1.8 °CJanuary nightly low

1127 mmrain and snow a year

1248 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

510 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Lucerne

Triengen 1560 h
Meierskappel 1570 h
Escholzmatt-Marbach 1570 h
Horw 1550 h

Nearby

Ermensee 1600 h
Aesch (LU) 1600 h
Schongau 1620 h
Geltwil 1620 h

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