Sunshine in Silvaplana

Silvaplana (GR) gets about 1630 hours of sunshine a year, 51% of the possible maximum, or 4.5 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 38% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 53 of 100 places in Graubünden. That's about 20 hours more than the Graubünden average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 570 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1630 hsunshine a year

6.3 ha day in July

2.6 ha day in December

#53 / 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 10:18 to 15:18, and on 21 June from 06:13 to 18:51.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 13m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 02m later than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	3.4 h	104 h
February	4.0 h	113 h
March	4.5 h	140 h
April	4.8 h	144 h
May	5.2 h	161 h
June	5.8 h	175 h
July	6.3 h	196 h
August	5.5 h	170 h
September	4.6 h	137 h
October	3.9 h	122 h
November	3.1 h	93 h
December	2.6 h	81 h

Climate in Silvaplana

2.3 °Cmean temperature

17.5 °CJuly daily high

−13.1 °CJanuary nightly low

956 mmrain and snow a year

1441 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1815 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Graubünden

Arosa 1630 h
Zizers 1630 h
Davos 1640 h
St. Moritz 1630 h

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