Sunshine in Mollens (VD)

Mollens (VD) gets about 1720 hours of sunshine a year, 44% 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 261 of 300 places in Vaud. That's about 90 hours less than the Vaud average of 1820. Mountains around it block about 130 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1720 hsunshine a year

7.4 ha day in July

2.1 ha day in December

#261 / 300in Vaud

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 08:45 to 16:24, and on 21 June from 06:08 to 19:43.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 22m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.5 h	76 h
February	3.4 h	95 h
March	4.6 h	144 h
April	5.3 h	159 h
May	5.7 h	177 h
June	6.9 h	207 h
July	7.4 h	228 h
August	6.8 h	209 h
September	5.4 h	163 h
October	3.9 h	120 h
November	2.7 h	82 h
December	2.1 h	65 h

Climate in Mollens (VD)

9.0 °Cmean temperature

22.7 °CJuly daily high

−1.7 °CJanuary nightly low

1290 mmrain and snow a year

1298 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

747 mabove sea level

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Nearby

Montricher 1690 h
Ballens 1820 h
Berolle 1760 h
Hautemorges 1810 h

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