Sunshine in Scharans

Scharans (GR) gets about 1680 hours of sunshine a year, 49% of the possible maximum, or 4.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 55% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 45 of 100 places in Graubünden. That's about 60 hours more than the Graubünden average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 380 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1680 hsunshine a year

6.2 ha day in July

2.8 ha day in December

#45 / 100in Graubünden

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 09:13 to 15:04, and on 21 June from 07:49 to 20:02.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 55m later than over a flat horizon (June).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 08m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	3.4 h	105 h
February	4.2 h	118 h
March	4.7 h	145 h
April	4.9 h	148 h
May	5.0 h	156 h
June	5.7 h	171 h
July	6.2 h	194 h
August	5.9 h	182 h
September	5.0 h	151 h
October	4.2 h	131 h
November	3.0 h	90 h
December	2.8 h	86 h

Climate in Scharans

9.0 °Cmean temperature

23.4 °CJuly daily high

−3.0 °CJanuary nightly low

912 mmrain and snow a year

1294 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

768 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Graubünden

Tujetsch 1680 h
Madulain 1680 h
Scuol 1690 h
Safiental 1670 h

Nearby

Fürstenau 1690 h
Sils im Domleschg 1410 h
Cazis 1610 h
Masein 1710 h

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