Sunshine in Les Planchettes

Les Planchettes (NE) gets about 1720 hours of sunshine a year, 43% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 66% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 9 of 24 places in Neuchâtel. That's about 10 hours more than the Neuchâtel average of 1710. Mountains around it block about 70 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1720 hsunshine a year

7.1 ha day in July

2.3 ha day in December

#9 / 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 09:46 to 16:07, and on 21 June from 05:59 to 21:10.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 06m later than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.8 h	86 h
February	3.5 h	99 h
March	4.4 h	136 h
April	5.4 h	162 h
May	5.8 h	180 h
June	6.6 h	197 h
July	7.1 h	221 h
August	6.7 h	209 h
September	5.3 h	158 h
October	4.0 h	125 h
November	2.6 h	79 h
December	2.3 h	71 h

Climate in Les Planchettes

6.6 °Cmean temperature

20.3 °CJuly daily high

−5.4 °CJanuary nightly low

1433 mmrain and snow a year

1235 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1063 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Neuchâtel

Neuchâtel 1730 h
Laténa 1710 h
La Chaux-de-Fonds 1740 h
Milvignes 1700 h

Nearby

La Chaux-de-Fonds 1740 h
Le Locle 1670 h
La Sagne 1670 h
La Ferrière 1750 h

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