Swiss SunSunshine in Stans
Stans (NW) gets about 1570 hours of sunshine a year, 43% of the possible maximum, or 4.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 15% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the sunniest of 11 places in Nidwalden. That's about 130 hours more than the Nidwalden average of 1440. Mountains around it block about 170 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Stans 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 09:35 to 11:11, and on 21 June from 06:08 to 20:44.
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 4h 59m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).
- Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 52 min later than over a flat horizon (December).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1.7 h | 54 h |
| February | 3.4 h | 95 h |
| March | 4.4 h | 137 h |
| April | 5.6 h | 169 h |
| May | 5.9 h | 184 h |
| June | 6.2 h | 187 h |
| July | 6.6 h | 206 h |
| August | 6.3 h | 195 h |
| September | 5.0 h | 150 h |
| October | 3.6 h | 112 h |
| November | 2.1 h | 63 h |
| December | 0.6 h | 19 h |
Climate in Stans
Similar sunshine in Nidwalden
- Ennetbürgen 1560 h
- Buochs 1550 h
- Beckenried 1550 h
- Hergiswil (NW) 1510 h
Nearby
- Oberdorf (NW) 1500 h
- Ennetmoos 1490 h
- Stansstad 1450 h
- Dallenwil 1260 h
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