Sunshine in Root

Root (LU) gets about 1500 hours of sunshine a year, 40% of the possible maximum, or 4.1 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 7% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 74 of 79 places in Lucerne. That's about 90 hours less than the Lucerne average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 130 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1500 hsunshine a year

6.7 ha day in July

1.2 ha day in December

#74 / 79in Lucerne

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 10:16 to 16:08, and on 21 June from 06:23 to 20:55.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 34m later than over a flat horizon (January).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.5 h	47 h
February	2.7 h	76 h
March	4.2 h	130 h
April	5.4 h	162 h
May	5.7 h	178 h
June	6.3 h	189 h
July	6.7 h	209 h
August	6.2 h	193 h
September	4.7 h	141 h
October	3.0 h	92 h
November	1.7 h	51 h
December	1.2 h	36 h

Climate in Root

10.0 °Cmean temperature

24.6 °CJuly daily high

−1.7 °CJanuary nightly low

1282 mmrain and snow a year

1218 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

417 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Lucerne

Schüpfheim 1510 h
Menznau 1490 h
Wikon 1520 h
Hergiswil bei Willisau 1520 h

Nearby

Gisikon 1540 h
Udligenswil 1620 h
Dierikon 1530 h
Inwil 1650 h

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