Sunshine in Quarten

Quarten (SG) gets about 1230 hours of sunshine a year, 46% of the possible maximum, or 3.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 1% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 74 of 75 places in St. Gallen. That's about 420 hours less than the St. Gallen average of 1650. Mountains around it block about 700 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1230 hsunshine a year

6.3 ha day in July

0.0 ha day in December

#74 / 75in St. Gallen

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: not at all on 21 December, and on 21 June from 06:44 to 20:47.

No direct sun on the 21st of January, November, December.
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 3h 13m later than over a flat horizon (October).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 00m earlier than over a flat horizon (October).

Month	per day	per month
January	0.0 h	1 h
February	1.8 h	51 h
March	3.4 h	104 h
April	4.8 h	143 h
May	5.2 h	160 h
June	6.1 h	184 h
July	6.3 h	197 h
August	5.5 h	172 h
September	4.3 h	130 h
October	2.6 h	81 h
November	0.3 h	9 h
December	0.0 h	0 h

Climate in Quarten

7.4 °Cmean temperature

21.6 °CJuly daily high

−4.4 °CJanuary nightly low

1599 mmrain and snow a year

1153 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

823 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in St. Gallen

Pfäfers 1100 h
Schänis 1490 h
Sevelen 1540 h
Lichtensteig 1540 h

Nearby

Walenstadt 1640 h
Flums 1620 h
Amden 1680 h
Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann 1800 h

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