Sunshine in Stansstad

Stansstad (NW) gets about 1450 hours of sunshine a year, 41% of the possible maximum, or 4.0 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 5% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 8 of 11 places in Nidwalden. That's about 10 hours more than the Nidwalden average of 1440. Mountains around it block about 230 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1450 hsunshine a year

5.8 ha day in July

1.8 ha day in December

#8 / 11in Nidwalden

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 09:17 to 16:10, and on 21 June from 07:31 to 20:35.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 29m later than over a flat horizon (June).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 49 min earlier than over a flat horizon (September).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.2 h	67 h
February	3.2 h	90 h
March	4.0 h	123 h
April	4.9 h	146 h
May	5.4 h	166 h
June	5.5 h	164 h
July	5.8 h	180 h
August	5.4 h	168 h
September	4.3 h	130 h
October	3.2 h	100 h
November	2.1 h	63 h
December	1.8 h	55 h

Climate in Stansstad

10.0 °Cmean temperature

24.7 °CJuly daily high

−1.6 °CJanuary nightly low

1258 mmrain and snow a year

1139 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

436 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Nidwalden

Ennetmoos 1490 h
Oberdorf (NW) 1500 h
Hergiswil (NW) 1510 h
Emmetten 1370 h

Nearby

Ennetmoos 1490 h
Hergiswil (NW) 1510 h
Stans 1570 h
Oberdorf (NW) 1500 h

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