Swiss SunSunshine in Lachen
Lachen (SZ) gets about 1730 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 68% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 3 of 30 places in Schwyz. That's about 140 hours more than the Schwyz average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 40 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Lachen on the sunshine map1730 hsunshine a year
7.5 ha day in July
1.6 ha day in December
#3 / 30in Schwyz
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 09:06 to 15:21, and on 21 June from 05:59 to 20:54.
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 46 min earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2.0 h | 62 h |
| February | 3.2 h | 91 h |
| March | 4.7 h | 145 h |
| April | 6.0 h | 179 h |
| May | 6.2 h | 191 h |
| June | 7.1 h | 212 h |
| July | 7.5 h | 231 h |
| August | 7.0 h | 217 h |
| September | 5.6 h | 168 h |
| October | 3.9 h | 120 h |
| November | 2.2 h | 67 h |
| December | 1.6 h | 49 h |
Climate in Lachen
10.1 °Cmean temperature
24.5 °CJuly daily high
−1.4 °CJanuary nightly low
1474 mmrain and snow a year
1170 kWh/m²solar radiation a year
412 mabove sea level
Similar sunshine in Schwyz
- Wangen (SZ) 1730 h
- Tuggen 1750 h
- Einsiedeln 1720 h
- Freienbach 1710 h
Nearby
- Altendorf 1700 h
- Galgenen 1680 h
- Wangen (SZ) 1730 h
- Schübelbach 1680 h
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