Sunshine in Saint-Martin (VS)

Saint-Martin (VS) gets about 1950 hours of sunshine a year, 55% of the possible maximum, or 5.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 95% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 32 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 220 hours more than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 400 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1950 hsunshine a year

7.5 ha day in July

3.2 ha day in December

#32 / 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 09:20 to 15:30, and on 21 June from 07:41 to 21:03.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 45m later than over a flat horizon (July).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 00m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	3.7 h	115 h
February	4.5 h	127 h
March	5.1 h	158 h
April	5.7 h	170 h
May	6.0 h	187 h
June	7.1 h	213 h
July	7.5 h	233 h
August	6.9 h	213 h
September	5.9 h	177 h
October	4.8 h	149 h
November	3.7 h	111 h
December	3.2 h	98 h

Climate in Saint-Martin (VS)

7.2 °Cmean temperature

22.3 °CJuly daily high

−4.9 °CJanuary nightly low

740 mmrain and snow a year

1395 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1443 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Unterbäch 1950 h
Veysonnaz 1950 h
Nendaz 1940 h
Saillon 1940 h

Nearby

Hérémence 1820 h
Vex 1850 h
Mont-Noble 2080 h
Veysonnaz 1950 h

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