Sunshine in Riehen

Riehen (BS) gets about 1690 hours of sunshine a year, 42% of the possible maximum, or 4.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 58% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 2 of 3 places in Basel-Stadt. That's about 10 hours more than the Basel-Stadt average of 1680. Mountains around it block about 30 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1690 hsunshine a year

7.7 ha day in July

1.8 ha day in December

#2 / 3in Basel-Stadt

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 09:19 to 16:07, and on 21 June from 06:04 to 20:59.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 30 min later than over a flat horizon (January).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.0 h	63 h
February	3.0 h	83 h
March	4.0 h	125 h
April	5.7 h	170 h
May	6.2 h	193 h
June	7.2 h	215 h
July	7.7 h	240 h
August	7.2 h	222 h
September	5.3 h	160 h
October	3.4 h	105 h
November	2.0 h	61 h
December	1.8 h	55 h

Climate in Riehen

11.1 °Cmean temperature

25.9 °CJuly daily high

−0.4 °CJanuary nightly low

848 mmrain and snow a year

1225 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

283 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Basel-Stadt

Basel 1720 h
Bettingen 1620 h

Nearby

Bettingen 1620 h
Birsfelden 1730 h
Muttenz 1730 h
Basel 1720 h

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