Swiss SunSunshine in Simplon
Simplon (VS) gets about 1550 hours of sunshine a year, 56% of the possible maximum, or 4.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 12% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 93 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 180 hours less than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 810 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Simplon on the sunshine mapSunshine 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 09:42 to 11:40, and on 21 June from 07:40 to 19:21.
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 4h 49m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
- Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 48m later than over a flat horizon (June).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1.6 h | 50 h |
| February | 3.1 h | 88 h |
| March | 4.7 h | 144 h |
| April | 5.1 h | 153 h |
| May | 5.5 h | 170 h |
| June | 6.6 h | 199 h |
| July | 7.1 h | 219 h |
| August | 6.3 h | 194 h |
| September | 4.9 h | 147 h |
| October | 3.4 h | 107 h |
| November | 1.7 h | 51 h |
| December | 1.0 h | 33 h |
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- Zwischbergen 820 h
- Saas-Balen 1220 h
- Saas-Grund 1430 h
- Eisten 1010 h
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