Sunshine in Riddes

Riddes (VS) gets about 1800 hours of sunshine a year, 56% of the possible maximum, or 4.9 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 79% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 48 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 60 hours more than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 500 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1800 hsunshine a year

7.9 ha day in July

1.8 ha day in December

#48 / 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 12:27 to 16:07, and on 21 June from 06:09 to 19:46.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 3h 45m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 12m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.3 h	70 h
February	4.1 h	114 h
March	4.9 h	152 h
April	5.3 h	158 h
May	5.9 h	184 h
June	7.8 h	235 h
July	7.9 h	244 h
August	6.7 h	207 h
September	5.5 h	165 h
October	4.5 h	139 h
November	2.5 h	74 h
December	1.8 h	55 h

Climate in Riddes

10.4 °Cmean temperature

26.9 °CJuly daily high

−3.1 °CJanuary nightly low

741 mmrain and snow a year

1353 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

495 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Massongex 1800 h
Turtmann-Unterems 1790 h
Grône 1790 h
Monthey 1780 h

Nearby

Leytron 2020 h
Isérables 1670 h
Saillon 1940 h
Chamoson 2010 h

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