Sunshine in Pontresina

Pontresina (GR) gets about 1750 hours of sunshine a year, 52% of the possible maximum, or 4.8 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 69% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 29 of 100 places in Graubünden. That's about 130 hours more than the Graubünden average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 500 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1750 hsunshine a year

6.5 ha day in July

3.2 ha day in December

#29 / 100in Graubünden

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 08:56 to 14:57, and on 21 June from 08:09 to 20:24.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 28m later than over a flat horizon (June).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 50m earlier than over a flat horizon (October).

Month	per day	per month
January	3.7 h	114 h
February	4.0 h	112 h
March	5.0 h	154 h
April	5.3 h	158 h
May	5.3 h	164 h
June	5.9 h	178 h
July	6.5 h	201 h
August	6.0 h	186 h
September	5.2 h	155 h
October	4.1 h	128 h
November	3.3 h	98 h
December	3.2 h	99 h

Climate in Pontresina

1.9 °Cmean temperature

17.9 °CJuly daily high

−14.2 °CJanuary nightly low

858 mmrain and snow a year

1431 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1819 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Graubünden

Felsberg 1750 h
Tschappina 1750 h
Grüsch 1750 h
Domat/Ems 1740 h

Nearby

Celerina/Schlarigna 1860 h
Samedan 1760 h
St. Moritz 1630 h
Bever 1800 h

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