Sunshine in Laufen

Laufen (BL) gets about 1680 hours of sunshine a year, 42% of the possible maximum, or 4.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 54% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 26 of 86 places in Basel-Landschaft. That's about 60 hours more than the Basel-Landschaft average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 40 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1680 hsunshine a year

7.5 ha day in July

1.8 ha day in December

#26 / 86in Basel-Landschaft

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 08:52 to 15:53, and on 21 June from 06:05 to 20:29.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 31 min earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.1 h	64 h
February	3.0 h	83 h
March	4.2 h	130 h
April	5.5 h	164 h
May	5.9 h	182 h
June	6.9 h	207 h
July	7.5 h	233 h
August	7.1 h	219 h
September	5.4 h	162 h
October	3.6 h	111 h
November	2.2 h	65 h
December	1.8 h	54 h

Climate in Laufen

10.2 °Cmean temperature

25.1 °CJuly daily high

−1.3 °CJanuary nightly low

986 mmrain and snow a year

1206 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

355 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Basel-Landschaft

Titterten 1680 h
Böckten 1670 h
Ettingen 1670 h
Blauen 1680 h

Nearby

Röschenz 1700 h
Dittingen 1320 h
Wahlen 1670 h
Zwingen 1660 h

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