Sunshine in Lichtensteig

Lichtensteig (SG) gets about 1540 hours of sunshine a year, 42% of the possible maximum, or 4.2 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 10% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 71 of 75 places in St. Gallen. That's about 110 hours less than the St. Gallen average of 1650. Mountains around it block about 190 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1540 hsunshine a year

6.8 ha day in July

1.7 ha day in December

#71 / 75in St. Gallen

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 09:56 to 15:44, and on 21 June from 06:51 to 20:49.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 17m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 40 min earlier than over a flat horizon (March).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.1 h	65 h
February	2.9 h	81 h
March	4.0 h	124 h
April	5.2 h	156 h
May	5.4 h	168 h
June	6.3 h	189 h
July	6.8 h	210 h
August	6.4 h	197 h
September	4.8 h	143 h
October	3.1 h	97 h
November	1.9 h	58 h
December	1.7 h	53 h

Climate in Lichtensteig

8.0 °Cmean temperature

23.0 °CJuly daily high

−4.5 °CJanuary nightly low

1440 mmrain and snow a year

1193 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

632 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in St. Gallen

Sevelen 1540 h
Wattwil 1560 h
Eggersriet 1570 h
Untereggen 1570 h

Nearby

Wattwil 1560 h
Bütschwil-Ganterschwil 1640 h
Neckertal 1680 h
Mosnang 1610 h

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