Swiss SunSunshine in Horw
Horw (LU) gets about 1550 hours of sunshine a year, 41% of the possible maximum, or 4.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 12% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 66 of 79 places in Lucerne. That's about 40 hours less than the Lucerne average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 90 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Horw on the sunshine map1550 hsunshine a year
6.5 ha day in July
1.3 ha day in December
#66 / 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 08:59 to 14:52, and on 21 June from 06:31 to 20:48.
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 19m earlier than over a flat horizon (January).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1.7 h | 52 h |
| February | 3.1 h | 85 h |
| March | 4.5 h | 139 h |
| April | 5.6 h | 168 h |
| May | 5.7 h | 177 h |
| June | 6.0 h | 180 h |
| July | 6.5 h | 202 h |
| August | 6.4 h | 197 h |
| September | 5.1 h | 152 h |
| October | 3.4 h | 105 h |
| November | 1.9 h | 58 h |
| December | 1.3 h | 41 h |
Climate in Horw
9.9 °Cmean temperature
24.6 °CJuly daily high
−1.8 °CJanuary nightly low
1251 mmrain and snow a year
1156 kWh/m²solar radiation a year
443 mabove sea level
Similar sunshine in Lucerne
- Ebikon 1550 h
- Hitzkirch 1560 h
- Triengen 1560 h
- Meierskappel 1570 h
Nearby
- Kriens 1600 h
- Lucerne 1610 h
- Hergiswil (NW) 1510 h
- Meggen 1640 h
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