Swiss SunSunshine in Monthey
Monthey (VS) gets about 1780 hours of sunshine a year, 52% of the possible maximum, or 4.9 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 77% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 52 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 50 hours more than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 350 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Monthey on the sunshine mapSunshine 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 09:52 to 15:39, and on 21 June from 06:28 to 19:13.
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 46m earlier than over a flat horizon (May).
- Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 07m later than over a flat horizon (December).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3.0 h | 92 h |
| February | 3.8 h | 108 h |
| March | 4.6 h | 142 h |
| April | 5.4 h | 163 h |
| May | 5.8 h | 179 h |
| June | 6.8 h | 204 h |
| July | 7.1 h | 220 h |
| August | 6.6 h | 206 h |
| September | 5.6 h | 169 h |
| October | 4.3 h | 132 h |
| November | 3.2 h | 96 h |
| December | 2.4 h | 75 h |
Climate in Monthey
Similar sunshine in Valais
- Grône 1790 h
- Turtmann-Unterems 1790 h
- Visp 1780 h
- Visperterminen 1780 h
Nearby
- Collombey-Muraz 1670 h
- Massongex 1800 h
- Bex 1800 h
- Vérossaz 1620 h
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