Sunshine in Riva San Vitale

Riva San Vitale (TI) gets about 1480 hours of sunshine a year, 55% of the possible maximum, or 4.1 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 6% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 87 of 101 places in Ticino. That's about 400 hours less than the Ticino average of 1880. Mountains around it block about 780 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1480 hsunshine a year

6.3 ha day in July

2.5 ha day in November

#87 / 101in Ticino

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 10:01 to 14:56, and on 21 June from 08:18 to 18:32.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 20m later than over a flat horizon (April).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 16m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	3.0 h	92 h
February	3.4 h	94 h
March	4.0 h	124 h
April	4.0 h	121 h
May	4.7 h	146 h
June	5.7 h	172 h
July	6.3 h	196 h
August	5.4 h	167 h
September	4.0 h	120 h
October	2.9 h	91 h
November	2.5 h	74 h
December	2.6 h	80 h

Climate in Riva San Vitale

11.3 °Cmean temperature

26.9 °CJuly daily high

−2.2 °CJanuary nightly low

1605 mmrain and snow a year

1386 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

273 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Ticino

Bosco/Gurin 1480 h
Lavizzara 1450 h
Verzasca 1430 h
Cevio 1430 h

Nearby

Val Mara 1590 h
Brusino Arsizio 1820 h
Mendrisio 2090 h
Morcote 1940 h

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