Sunshine in Saint-Léonard

Saint-Léonard (VS) gets about 2120 hours of sunshine a year, 58% of the possible maximum, or 5.8 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 98% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 9 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 390 hours more than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 240 hours a year, already taken into account.

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2120 hsunshine a year

8.7 ha day in July

2.7 ha day in December

#9 / 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 10:35 to 16:02, and on 21 June from 06:27 to 20:07.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 54m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 50 min earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	3.3 h	103 h
February	4.4 h	123 h
March	5.7 h	177 h
April	6.7 h	202 h
May	7.0 h	218 h
June	8.2 h	245 h
July	8.7 h	268 h
August	8.1 h	251 h
September	6.7 h	201 h
October	4.8 h	150 h
November	3.4 h	103 h
December	2.7 h	83 h

Climate in Saint-Léonard

10.5 °Cmean temperature

27.1 °CJuly daily high

−3.1 °CJanuary nightly low

510 mmrain and snow a year

1433 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

505 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Guttet-Feschel 2110 h
Chalais 2110 h
Ayent 2140 h
Noble-Contrée 2100 h

Nearby

Grimisuat 2220 h
Grône 1790 h
Mont-Noble 2080 h
Ayent 2140 h

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