Swiss SunSunshine in L'Abbaye
L'Abbaye (VD) gets about 1700 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 63% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 271 of 300 places in Vaud. That's about 110 hours less than the Vaud average of 1820. Mountains around it block about 140 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore L'Abbaye 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 09:11 to 16:28, and on 21 June from 07:13 to 20:59.
- Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 09m later than over a flat horizon (June).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3.0 h | 92 h |
| February | 3.5 h | 99 h |
| March | 4.6 h | 142 h |
| April | 5.1 h | 154 h |
| May | 5.4 h | 166 h |
| June | 6.5 h | 195 h |
| July | 7.0 h | 218 h |
| August | 6.5 h | 202 h |
| September | 5.2 h | 156 h |
| October | 3.9 h | 121 h |
| November | 2.7 h | 81 h |
| December | 2.6 h | 79 h |
Climate in L'Abbaye
Similar sunshine in Vaud
- Juriens 1700 h
- Ependes (VD) 1700 h
- Chessel 1700 h
- Rossinière 1710 h
Nearby
- Le Lieu 1780 h
- Vaulion 1590 h
- Vallorbe 1620 h
- Mont-la-Ville 1740 h
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