Sunshine in St. Stephan

St. Stephan (BE) gets about 1580 hours of sunshine a year, 50% of the possible maximum, or 4.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 17% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 285 of 334 places in Bern. That's about 90 hours less than the Bern average of 1670. Mountains around it block about 520 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1580 hsunshine a year

6.2 ha day in July

2.3 ha day in December

#285 / 334in Bern

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 09:34 to 14:29, and on 21 June from 07:58 to 20:31.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 59m later than over a flat horizon (July).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 54m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.8 h	86 h
February	3.4 h	95 h
March	4.3 h	132 h
April	4.9 h	146 h
May	5.0 h	154 h
June	5.9 h	177 h
July	6.2 h	192 h
August	5.7 h	178 h
September	5.0 h	150 h
October	3.8 h	117 h
November	2.7 h	81 h
December	2.3 h	73 h

Climate in St. Stephan

6.9 °Cmean temperature

20.9 °CJuly daily high

−4.3 °CJanuary nightly low

1394 mmrain and snow a year

1287 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1038 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Bern

Melchnau 1580 h
Reisiswil 1580 h
Saicourt 1580 h
Eschert 1580 h

Nearby

Lenk 1630 h
Zweisimmen 1560 h
Adelboden 1560 h
Saanen 1780 h

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