Sunshine in Le Locle

Le Locle (NE) gets about 1670 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 4.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 51% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 18 of 24 places in Neuchâtel. That's about 40 hours less than the Neuchâtel average of 1710. Mountains around it block about 160 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1670 hsunshine a year

6.7 ha day in July

2.5 ha day in December

#18 / 24in Neuchâtel

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 09:33 to 16:22, and on 21 June from 06:25 to 20:04.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 03m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 50 min later than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.9 h	91 h
February	3.6 h	100 h
March	4.3 h	132 h
April	5.0 h	150 h
May	5.2 h	161 h
June	6.2 h	185 h
July	6.7 h	207 h
August	6.4 h	199 h
September	5.1 h	154 h
October	4.1 h	126 h
November	2.8 h	84 h
December	2.5 h	78 h

Climate in Le Locle

7.0 °Cmean temperature

20.8 °CJuly daily high

−5.4 °CJanuary nightly low

1480 mmrain and snow a year

1260 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

926 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Neuchâtel

La Sagne 1670 h
Le Landeron 1670 h
Val-de-Travers 1680 h
Boudry 1650 h

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