Sunshine in Pierrafortscha

Pierrafortscha (FR) gets about 1830 hours of sunshine a year, 45% of the possible maximum, or 5.0 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 84% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 42 of 120 places in Fribourg. That's about 30 hours more than the Fribourg average of 1800. Mountains around it block about 20 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1830 hsunshine a year

7.8 ha day in July

2.1 ha day in December

#42 / 120in Fribourg

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 08:47 to 16:19, and on 21 June from 06:17 to 21:03.

Month	per day	per month
January	2.5 h	78 h
February	3.7 h	104 h
March	4.9 h	153 h
April	5.8 h	174 h
May	6.3 h	194 h
June	7.2 h	216 h
July	7.8 h	240 h
August	7.3 h	225 h
September	5.8 h	173 h
October	4.1 h	127 h
November	2.7 h	82 h
December	2.1 h	66 h

Climate in Pierrafortscha

9.0 °Cmean temperature

23.7 °CJuly daily high

−2.7 °CJanuary nightly low

1048 mmrain and snow a year

1275 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

701 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Fribourg

Avry 1830 h
Fribourg 1830 h
Chénens 1830 h
Crésuz 1830 h

Nearby

Marly 1850 h
Villarsel-sur-Marly 1860 h
Tentlingen 1870 h
Fribourg 1830 h

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