Sunshine in Rickenbach (SO)

Rickenbach (SO) gets about 1600 hours of sunshine a year, 40% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 22% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 78 of 104 places in Solothurn. That's about 20 hours less than the Solothurn average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 50 hours a year, already taken into account.

Explore Rickenbach (SO) on the sunshine map

1600 hsunshine a year

7.4 ha day in July

1.2 ha day in December

#78 / 104in Solothurn

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 09:02 to 16:10, and on 21 June from 06:03 to 20:27.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 31 min earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.6 h	48 h
February	2.7 h	76 h
March	4.3 h	135 h
April	5.6 h	167 h
May	6.0 h	184 h
June	6.9 h	207 h
July	7.4 h	228 h
August	6.8 h	210 h
September	5.1 h	154 h
October	3.1 h	97 h
November	1.8 h	54 h
December	1.2 h	38 h

Climate in Rickenbach (SO)

9.6 °Cmean temperature

24.9 °CJuly daily high

−2.1 °CJanuary nightly low

1094 mmrain and snow a year

1228 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

439 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Solothurn

Matzendorf 1600 h
Rodersdorf 1600 h
Trimbach 1600 h
Oensingen 1600 h

Nearby

Wangen bei Olten 1620 h
Hägendorf 1600 h
Kappel (SO) 1600 h
Gunzgen 1640 h

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