Swiss SunSunshine in Saillon
Saillon (VS) gets about 1940 hours of sunshine a year, 57% of the possible maximum, or 5.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 94% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 36 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 200 hours more than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 390 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Saillon on the sunshine mapSunshine 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 11:04 to 16:06, and on 21 June from 06:09 to 18:40.
- Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 22m later than over a flat horizon (December).
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 18m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3.0 h | 92 h |
| February | 4.2 h | 118 h |
| March | 5.3 h | 163 h |
| April | 6.0 h | 179 h |
| May | 6.4 h | 197 h |
| June | 7.5 h | 224 h |
| July | 7.9 h | 246 h |
| August | 7.4 h | 230 h |
| September | 5.9 h | 178 h |
| October | 4.6 h | 143 h |
| November | 3.2 h | 95 h |
| December | 2.4 h | 73 h |
Climate in Saillon
Similar sunshine in Valais
- Nendaz 1940 h
- Veysonnaz 1950 h
- Unterbäch 1950 h
- Saint-Martin (VS) 1950 h
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