Sunshine in St. Margrethen

St. Margrethen (SG) gets about 1720 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 65% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 14 of 75 places in St. Gallen. That's about 70 hours more than the St. Gallen average of 1650. Mountains around it block about 70 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1720 hsunshine a year

7.5 ha day in July

1.4 ha day in December

#14 / 75in St. Gallen

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 08:48 to 14:45, and on 21 June from 05:56 to 20:51.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 16m earlier than over a flat horizon (January).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.9 h	59 h
February	2.9 h	82 h
March	4.5 h	139 h
April	6.1 h	184 h
May	6.6 h	204 h
June	7.1 h	212 h
July	7.5 h	234 h
August	7.0 h	218 h
September	5.4 h	162 h
October	3.6 h	112 h
November	2.2 h	65 h
December	1.4 h	45 h

Climate in St. Margrethen

10.4 °Cmean temperature

24.4 °CJuly daily high

−1.6 °CJanuary nightly low

1205 mmrain and snow a year

1214 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

401 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in St. Gallen

Balgach 1710 h
Au (SG) 1700 h
Kaltbrunn 1730 h
Rebstein 1700 h

Nearby

Au (SG) 1700 h
Walzenhausen 1700 h
Berneck 1660 h
Lutzenberg 1650 h

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