Sunshine in S-chanf

S-chanf (GR) gets about 1720 hours of sunshine a year, 51% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 65% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 32 of 100 places in Graubünden. That's about 100 hours more than the Graubünden average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 500 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1720 hsunshine a year

6.4 ha day in July

2.8 ha day in December

#32 / 100in Graubünden

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 10:46 to 16:00, and on 21 June from 06:44 to 19:22.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 29m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 42m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	3.3 h	102 h
February	3.9 h	109 h
March	4.9 h	151 h
April	5.4 h	163 h
May	5.3 h	166 h
June	5.9 h	178 h
July	6.4 h	199 h
August	6.1 h	189 h
September	5.2 h	157 h
October	4.1 h	127 h
November	3.1 h	92 h
December	2.8 h	86 h

Climate in S-chanf

2.3 °Cmean temperature

18.7 °CJuly daily high

−15.1 °CJanuary nightly low

789 mmrain and snow a year

1384 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1664 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Graubünden

Schluein 1720 h
Sils im Engadin/Segl 1720 h
Jenins 1720 h
Masein 1710 h

Nearby

Zuoz 1790 h
Madulain 1680 h
La Punt Chamues-ch 1700 h
Bever 1800 h

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