Sunshine in Luthern

Luthern (LU) gets about 1470 hours of sunshine a year, 41% of the possible maximum, or 4.0 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 6% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 76 of 79 places in Lucerne. That's about 120 hours less than the Lucerne average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 210 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1470 hsunshine a year

6.4 ha day in July

1.8 ha day in December

#76 / 79in Lucerne

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 09:04 to 15:08, and on 21 June from 06:46 to 20:29.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 08m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 00m later than over a flat horizon (April).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.2 h	67 h
February	2.9 h	80 h
March	4.0 h	125 h
April	4.7 h	142 h
May	5.1 h	157 h
June	5.9 h	177 h
July	6.4 h	198 h
August	5.8 h	181 h
September	4.5 h	136 h
October	3.1 h	96 h
November	1.9 h	56 h
December	1.8 h	56 h

Climate in Luthern

8.0 °Cmean temperature

22.3 °CJuly daily high

−3.5 °CJanuary nightly low

1403 mmrain and snow a year

1236 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

777 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Lucerne

Menznau 1490 h
Root 1500 h
Wolhusen 1440 h
Schüpfheim 1510 h

Nearby

Hergiswil bei Willisau 1520 h
Eriswil 1610 h
Ufhusen 1670 h
Wyssachen 1510 h

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