Sunshine in Sainte-Croix

Sainte-Croix (VD) gets about 1700 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 61% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 278 of 300 places in Vaud. That's about 120 hours less than the Vaud average of 1820. Mountains around it block about 160 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1700 hsunshine a year

6.9 ha day in July

2.8 ha day in December

#278 / 300in Vaud

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 08:42 to 16:02, and on 21 June from 06:42 to 20:19.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 52 min earlier than over a flat horizon (May).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 41 min later than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	3.2 h	98 h
February	3.6 h	102 h
March	4.4 h	135 h
April	4.9 h	147 h
May	5.2 h	162 h
June	6.4 h	192 h
July	6.9 h	215 h
August	6.3 h	197 h
September	5.1 h	153 h
October	4.0 h	124 h
November	2.9 h	87 h
December	2.8 h	86 h

Climate in Sainte-Croix

6.5 °Cmean temperature

19.4 °CJuly daily high

−4.5 °CJanuary nightly low

1552 mmrain and snow a year

1273 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1084 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Vaud

Provence 1700 h
Rances 1700 h
Croy 1700 h
Premier 1700 h

Nearby

Bullet 1820 h
Vuiteboeuf 1560 h
Baulmes 1620 h
La Côte-aux-Fées 1810 h

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