Sunshine in Pieterlen

Pieterlen (BE) gets about 1630 hours of sunshine a year, 41% of the possible maximum, or 4.5 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 36% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 248 of 334 places in Bern. That's about 40 hours less than the Bern average of 1670. Mountains around it block about 70 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1630 hsunshine a year

7.1 ha day in July

1.4 ha day in December

#248 / 334in Bern

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 08:48 to 16:13, and on 21 June from 06:06 to 19:55.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 04m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.7 h	54 h
February	2.9 h	82 h
March	4.6 h	142 h
April	5.6 h	169 h
May	6.0 h	187 h
June	6.6 h	199 h
July	7.1 h	220 h
August	6.6 h	206 h
September	5.3 h	160 h
October	3.5 h	108 h
November	2.1 h	64 h
December	1.4 h	43 h

Climate in Pieterlen

9.8 °Cmean temperature

25.3 °CJuly daily high

−2.0 °CJanuary nightly low

1138 mmrain and snow a year

1255 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

441 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Bern

Lenk 1630 h
Ipsach 1630 h
Frutigen 1630 h
Kaufdorf 1630 h

Nearby

Romont (BE) 1640 h
Meinisberg 1660 h
Lengnau (BE) 1660 h
Safnern 1680 h

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