Sunshine in Pfaffnau

Pfaffnau (LU) gets about 1580 hours of sunshine a year, 40% of the possible maximum, or 4.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 16% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 58 of 79 places in Lucerne. That's about 20 hours less than the Lucerne average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 60 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1580 hsunshine a year

7.4 ha day in July

1.2 ha day in December

#58 / 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 09:29 to 16:11, and on 21 June from 06:16 to 20:59.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 45 min later than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.5 h	47 h
February	2.8 h	77 h
March	4.4 h	135 h
April	5.4 h	163 h
May	5.8 h	181 h
June	6.9 h	207 h
July	7.4 h	229 h
August	6.7 h	208 h
September	5.0 h	149 h
October	3.0 h	92 h
November	1.6 h	49 h
December	1.2 h	36 h

Climate in Pfaffnau

9.3 °Cmean temperature

24.7 °CJuly daily high

−2.4 °CJanuary nightly low

1145 mmrain and snow a year

1258 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

504 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Lucerne

Grossdietwil 1580 h
Altishofen 1570 h
Werthenstein 1580 h
Hasle (LU) 1570 h

Nearby

Roggliswil 1600 h
Brittnau 1630 h
Vordemwald 1630 h
Altbüron 1570 h

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