Sunshine in Meierskappel

Meierskappel (LU) gets about 1570 hours of sunshine a year, 41% of the possible maximum, or 4.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 14% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 63 of 79 places in Lucerne. That's about 30 hours less than the Lucerne average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 130 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1570 hsunshine a year

6.7 ha day in July

1.5 ha day in December

#63 / 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 08:41 to 15:55, and on 21 June from 06:00 to 19:43.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 14m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.8 h	57 h
February	3.0 h	84 h
March	4.4 h	137 h
April	5.5 h	166 h
May	5.8 h	180 h
June	6.3 h	188 h
July	6.7 h	207 h
August	6.3 h	194 h
September	4.9 h	148 h
October	3.2 h	101 h
November	2.0 h	59 h
December	1.5 h	45 h

Climate in Meierskappel

10.0 °Cmean temperature

24.6 °CJuly daily high

−1.6 °CJanuary nightly low

1259 mmrain and snow a year

1217 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

500 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Lucerne

Escholzmatt-Marbach 1570 h
Triengen 1560 h
Hitzkirch 1560 h
Altbüron 1570 h

Nearby

Risch 1650 h
Gisikon 1540 h
Root 1500 h
Dietwil 1640 h

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