Sunshine in Sachseln

Sachseln (OW) gets about 1490 hours of sunshine a year, 43% 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 4 of 7 places in Obwalden. That's about 50 hours more than the Obwalden average of 1440. Mountains around it block about 270 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1490 hsunshine a year

6.0 ha day in July

1.5 ha day in December

#4 / 7in Obwalden

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 11:21 to 15:51, and on 21 June from 06:37 to 20:22.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 40m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 35 min earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.8 h	56 h
February	3.0 h	84 h
March	4.3 h	132 h
April	5.3 h	158 h
May	5.5 h	170 h
June	5.7 h	171 h
July	6.0 h	188 h
August	5.8 h	179 h
September	4.9 h	147 h
October	3.3 h	102 h
November	1.9 h	56 h
December	1.5 h	45 h

Climate in Sachseln

9.7 °Cmean temperature

23.9 °CJuly daily high

−1.9 °CJanuary nightly low

1229 mmrain and snow a year

1152 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

484 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Obwalden

Kerns 1520 h
Sarnen 1550 h
Alpnach 1590 h
Engelberg 1360 h

Nearby

Sarnen 1550 h
Kerns 1520 h
Giswil 1280 h
Alpnach 1590 h

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