Sunshine in Kappel (SO)

Kappel (SO) gets about 1600 hours of sunshine a year, 40% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 21% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 83 of 104 places in Solothurn. That's about 30 hours less than the Solothurn average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 50 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1600 hsunshine a year

7.6 ha day in July

1.1 ha day in December

#83 / 104in Solothurn

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 09:20 to 16:10, and on 21 June from 06:03 to 20:46.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 35 min later than over a flat horizon (November).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.4 h	44 h
February	2.6 h	73 h
March	4.3 h	133 h
April	5.6 h	168 h
May	6.1 h	190 h
June	7.1 h	214 h
July	7.6 h	235 h
August	6.8 h	212 h
September	5.1 h	152 h
October	3.0 h	93 h
November	1.7 h	50 h
December	1.1 h	33 h

Climate in Kappel (SO)

9.7 °Cmean temperature

25.1 °CJuly daily high

−2.1 °CJanuary nightly low

1082 mmrain and snow a year

1229 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

434 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Solothurn

Erlinsbach (SO) 1600 h
Trimbach 1600 h
Lostorf 1590 h
Rodersdorf 1600 h

Nearby

Gunzgen 1640 h
Boningen 1640 h
Hägendorf 1600 h
Rickenbach (SO) 1600 h

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