Sunshine in Saint-Gingolph

Saint-Gingolph (VS) gets about 1590 hours of sunshine a year, 50% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 19% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 83 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 150 hours less than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 380 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1590 hsunshine a year

7.5 ha day in July

0.2 ha day in December

#83 / 123in Valais

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 13:12 to 13:17, and on 21 June from 06:19 to 20:59.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 4h 26m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 3h 02m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	0.7 h	21 h
February	2.8 h	78 h
March	4.3 h	133 h
April	6.0 h	181 h
May	6.5 h	201 h
June	7.1 h	213 h
July	7.5 h	233 h
August	7.1 h	219 h
September	5.3 h	160 h
October	3.4 h	107 h
November	1.2 h	35 h
December	0.2 h	5 h

Climate in Saint-Gingolph

10.2 °Cmean temperature

24.5 °CJuly daily high

−1.2 °CJanuary nightly low

1244 mmrain and snow a year

1225 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

404 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Grengiols 1590 h
Obergoms 1580 h
Liddes 1580 h
Val-d'Illiez 1570 h

Nearby

Port-Valais 1770 h
Noville 1810 h
La Tour-de-Peilz 1920 h
Chessel 1700 h

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