Sunshine in Ried-Brig

Ried-Brig (VS) gets about 1650 hours of sunshine a year, 55% of the possible maximum, or 4.5 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 45% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 76 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 80 hours less than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 600 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1650 hsunshine a year

7.0 ha day in July

1.3 ha day in December

#76 / 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 11:07 to 13:44, and on 21 June from 08:08 to 19:55.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 37m earlier than over a flat horizon (January).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 33m later than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.6 h	51 h
February	3.6 h	100 h
March	5.1 h	159 h
April	5.6 h	167 h
May	5.7 h	176 h
June	6.5 h	195 h
July	7.0 h	216 h
August	6.6 h	205 h
September	5.6 h	169 h
October	4.0 h	124 h
November	1.7 h	51 h
December	1.3 h	39 h

Climate in Ried-Brig

8.3 °Cmean temperature

25.1 °CJuly daily high

−6.0 °CJanuary nightly low

688 mmrain and snow a year

1360 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

908 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Finhaut 1670 h
Mörel-Filet 1640 h
Isérables 1670 h
Fiesch 1670 h

Nearby

Termen 1720 h
Naters 1820 h
Bitsch 1730 h
Brig 1540 h

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