Sunshine in Termen

Termen (VS) gets about 1720 hours of sunshine a year, 54% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 66% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 64 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 10 hours less than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 540 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1720 hsunshine a year

6.9 ha day in July

2.3 ha day in December

#64 / 123in Valais

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 10:41 to 15:30, and on 21 June from 07:52 to 19:43.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 22m later than over a flat horizon (April).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 17m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.8 h	87 h
February	4.0 h	112 h
March	5.0 h	155 h
April	5.1 h	154 h
May	5.5 h	171 h
June	6.6 h	197 h
July	6.9 h	215 h
August	6.2 h	191 h
September	5.4 h	161 h
October	4.2 h	130 h
November	2.6 h	79 h
December	2.3 h	70 h

Climate in Termen

8.6 °Cmean temperature

25.4 °CJuly daily high

−5.9 °CJanuary nightly low

679 mmrain and snow a year

1368 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

926 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Bitsch 1730 h
Embd 1730 h
Sembrancher 1710 h
Salvan 1740 h

Nearby

Bitsch 1730 h
Ried-Brig 1650 h
Naters 1820 h
Riederalp 1770 h

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