Sunshine in Steinen

Steinen (SZ) gets about 1620 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 28% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 17 of 30 places in Schwyz. That's about 20 hours more than the Schwyz average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 190 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1620 hsunshine a year

6.5 ha day in July

1.9 ha day in December

#17 / 30in Schwyz

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 08:58 to 15:08, and on 21 June from 07:21 to 20:29.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 21m later than over a flat horizon (June).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 02m earlier than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.4 h	75 h
February	3.4 h	95 h
March	4.4 h	136 h
April	5.6 h	168 h
May	5.6 h	173 h
June	6.1 h	183 h
July	6.5 h	200 h
August	6.3 h	196 h
September	5.0 h	150 h
October	3.6 h	112 h
November	2.4 h	71 h
December	1.9 h	59 h

Climate in Steinen

9.9 °Cmean temperature

24.0 °CJuly daily high

−2.0 °CJanuary nightly low

1555 mmrain and snow a year

1203 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

473 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Schwyz

Arth 1630 h
Illgau 1630 h
Schwyz 1630 h
Feusisberg 1630 h

Nearby

Steinerberg 1680 h
Lauerz 1530 h
Sattel 1590 h
Schwyz 1630 h

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