Sunshine in Schiers

Schiers (GR) gets about 1520 hours of sunshine a year, 49% of the possible maximum, or 4.2 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 8% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 76 of 100 places in Graubünden. That's about 100 hours less than the Graubünden average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 500 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1520 hsunshine a year

6.8 ha day in July

1.0 ha day in December

#76 / 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 09:09 to 11:11, and on 21 June from 06:51 to 20:18.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 4h 57m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 09m later than over a flat horizon (March).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.4 h	44 h
February	2.6 h	73 h
March	4.2 h	130 h
April	5.5 h	165 h
May	5.7 h	175 h
June	6.2 h	187 h
July	6.8 h	210 h
August	6.6 h	205 h
September	5.3 h	158 h
October	3.2 h	98 h
November	1.4 h	43 h
December	1.0 h	30 h

Climate in Schiers

8.7 °Cmean temperature

22.9 °CJuly daily high

−3.0 °CJanuary nightly low

1147 mmrain and snow a year

1308 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

656 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Graubünden

Val Müstair 1520 h
Grono 1510 h
Untervaz 1510 h
Muntogna da Schons 1500 h

Nearby

Grüsch 1750 h
Furna 1760 h
Seewis im Prättigau 1780 h
Jenaz 1540 h

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