Sunshine in Obergoms

Obergoms (VS) gets about 1580 hours of sunshine a year, 49% of the possible maximum, or 4.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 17% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 85 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 160 hours less than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 510 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1580 hsunshine a year

6.4 ha day in July

2.4 ha day in December

#85 / 123in Valais

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 11:21 to 16:23, and on 21 June from 06:52 to 19:25.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 54m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 40m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.8 h	87 h
February	3.6 h	100 h
March	4.3 h	132 h
April	4.5 h	136 h
May	5.0 h	155 h
June	6.1 h	183 h
July	6.4 h	200 h
August	5.7 h	176 h
September	4.7 h	140 h
October	3.8 h	117 h
November	2.6 h	79 h
December	2.4 h	75 h

Climate in Obergoms

3.5 °Cmean temperature

20.1 °CJuly daily high

−11.9 °CJanuary nightly low

1376 mmrain and snow a year

1393 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1353 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Liddes 1580 h
Val-d'Illiez 1570 h
Grengiols 1590 h
Saint-Gingolph 1590 h

Nearby

Goms 1680 h
Bedretto 1430 h
Guttannen 1060 h
Bellwald 1850 h

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