Swiss SunSunshine in Lens
Lens (VS) gets about 2240 hours of sunshine a year, 57% of the possible maximum, or 6.1 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 100% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the sunniest of 123 places in Valais. That's about 510 hours more than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 140 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Lens 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 09:16 to 16:19, and on 21 June from 06:15 to 20:11.
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 54 min earlier than over a flat horizon (June).
- Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 43 min later than over a flat horizon (December).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 4.0 h | 125 h |
| February | 5.1 h | 142 h |
| March | 6.0 h | 186 h |
| April | 6.9 h | 206 h |
| May | 7.0 h | 217 h |
| June | 8.1 h | 244 h |
| July | 8.6 h | 266 h |
| August | 8.1 h | 252 h |
| September | 6.9 h | 208 h |
| October | 5.4 h | 169 h |
| November | 4.1 h | 122 h |
| December | 3.4 h | 106 h |
Climate in Lens
Similar sunshine in Valais
- Savièse 2220 h
- Grimisuat 2220 h
- Crans-Montana 2220 h
- Arbaz 2200 h
Nearby
- Icogne 2010 h
- Ayent 2140 h
- Grône 1790 h
- Saint-Léonard 2120 h
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