Sunshine in Pfungen

Pfungen (ZH) gets about 1610 hours of sunshine a year, 41% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 27% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 131 of 160 places in Zurich. That's about 30 hours less than the Zurich average of 1640. Mountains around it block about 40 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1610 hsunshine a year

7.6 ha day in July

0.9 ha day in December

#131 / 160in Zurich

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 10:22 to 15:22, and on 21 June from 05:59 to 20:56.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 38m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 43 min earlier than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.3 h	40 h
February	2.7 h	75 h
March	4.4 h	135 h
April	5.9 h	176 h
May	6.3 h	196 h
June	7.2 h	216 h
July	7.6 h	237 h
August	7.0 h	218 h
September	5.3 h	158 h
October	2.9 h	91 h
November	1.5 h	44 h
December	0.9 h	27 h

Climate in Pfungen

9.9 °Cmean temperature

25.1 °CJuly daily high

−1.8 °CJanuary nightly low

1061 mmrain and snow a year

1239 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

410 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Zurich

Benken (ZH) 1610 h
Bonstetten 1610 h
Regensberg 1610 h
Stadel 1620 h

Nearby

Dättlikon 1600 h
Neftenbach 1620 h
Oberembrach 1630 h
Embrach 1590 h

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