Sunshine in Port-Valais

Port-Valais (VS) gets about 1770 hours of sunshine a year, 50% of the possible maximum, or 4.9 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 74% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 56 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 40 hours more than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 260 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1770 hsunshine a year

7.9 ha day in July

1.6 ha day in December

#56 / 123in Valais

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 08:58 to 13:12, and on 21 June from 06:40 to 20:59.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 3h 07m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 33 min later than over a flat horizon (March).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.0 h	61 h
February	2.9 h	80 h
March	4.8 h	149 h
April	6.1 h	184 h
May	6.6 h	204 h
June	7.4 h	222 h
July	7.9 h	244 h
August	7.3 h	226 h
September	5.9 h	176 h
October	3.6 h	111 h
November	2.2 h	66 h
December	1.6 h	48 h

Climate in Port-Valais

10.5 °Cmean temperature

25.3 °CJuly daily high

−1.8 °CJanuary nightly low

1112 mmrain and snow a year

1247 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

373 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Riederalp 1770 h
Lalden 1770 h
Visperterminen 1780 h
Visp 1780 h

Nearby

Noville 1810 h
Saint-Gingolph 1590 h
Rennaz 1670 h
Chessel 1700 h

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