Swiss SunSunshine in Kriens
Kriens (LU) gets about 1600 hours of sunshine a year, 41% 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 48 of 79 places in Lucerne. Mountains around it block about 60 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Kriens on the sunshine map1600 hsunshine a year
6.6 ha day in July
1.4 ha day in December
#48 / 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 08:54 to 15:01, and on 21 June from 06:01 to 20:32.
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 10m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1.8 h | 56 h |
| February | 3.2 h | 91 h |
| March | 4.6 h | 143 h |
| April | 5.5 h | 166 h |
| May | 5.6 h | 174 h |
| June | 6.1 h | 182 h |
| July | 6.6 h | 205 h |
| August | 6.4 h | 198 h |
| September | 5.2 h | 156 h |
| October | 3.7 h | 115 h |
| November | 2.2 h | 65 h |
| December | 1.4 h | 44 h |
Climate in Kriens
10.0 °Cmean temperature
24.8 °CJuly daily high
−1.7 °CJanuary nightly low
1236 mmrain and snow a year
1163 kWh/m²solar radiation a year
475 mabove sea level
Similar sunshine in Lucerne
- Aesch (LU) 1600 h
- Roggliswil 1600 h
- Büron 1590 h
- Fischbach 1590 h
Nearby
- Horw 1550 h
- Lucerne 1610 h
- Hergiswil (NW) 1510 h
- Ebikon 1550 h
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