Sunshine in Mels

Mels (SG) gets about 1740 hours of sunshine a year, 48% of the possible maximum, or 4.8 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 68% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 12 of 75 places in St. Gallen. That's about 90 hours more than the St. Gallen average of 1650. Mountains around it block about 250 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1740 hsunshine a year

6.9 ha day in July

2.1 ha day in December

#12 / 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 08:43 to 13:41, and on 21 June from 06:14 to 20:20.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 25m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 32 min later than over a flat horizon (April).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.6 h	81 h
February	3.9 h	110 h
March	4.5 h	140 h
April	5.5 h	166 h
May	5.9 h	182 h
June	6.6 h	198 h
July	6.9 h	214 h
August	6.5 h	201 h
September	5.4 h	162 h
October	4.4 h	137 h
November	2.7 h	81 h
December	2.1 h	64 h

Climate in Mels

10.2 °Cmean temperature

24.6 °CJuly daily high

−2.2 °CJanuary nightly low

1300 mmrain and snow a year

1148 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

496 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in St. Gallen

Kaltbrunn 1730 h
Bad Ragaz 1750 h
St. Margrethen 1720 h
Benken (SG) 1760 h

Nearby

Sargans 1810 h
Vilters-Wangs 1660 h
Wartau 1630 h
Balzers 1490 h

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