Sunshine in Rickenbach (LU)

Rickenbach (LU) gets about 1620 hours of sunshine a year, 40% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 32% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 32 of 79 places in Lucerne. That's about 30 hours more than the Lucerne average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 40 hours a year, already taken into account.

Explore Rickenbach (LU) on the sunshine map

1620 hsunshine a year

7.2 ha day in July

1.6 ha day in December

#32 / 79in Lucerne

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 08:40 to 15:50, and on 21 June from 05:59 to 20:57.

Month	per day	per month
January	2.0 h	61 h
February	3.1 h	86 h
March	4.5 h	139 h
April	5.6 h	167 h
May	5.9 h	182 h
June	6.8 h	203 h
July	7.2 h	223 h
August	6.6 h	204 h
September	5.0 h	151 h
October	3.2 h	100 h
November	1.9 h	58 h
December	1.6 h	50 h

Climate in Rickenbach (LU)

8.9 °Cmean temperature

23.7 °CJuly daily high

−2.2 °CJanuary nightly low

1159 mmrain and snow a year

1256 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

691 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Lucerne

Schongau 1620 h
Neuenkirch 1630 h
Schwarzenberg 1630 h
Doppleschwand 1630 h

Nearby

Schlierbach 1660 h
Menziken 1600 h
Beromünster 1630 h
Geuensee 1600 h

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