Sunshine in Unterschächen

Unterschächen (UR) gets about 1210 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 3.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 1% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 13 of 19 places in Uri. That's about 70 hours less than the Uri average of 1270. Mountains around it block about 700 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1210 hsunshine a year

5.9 ha day in August

0.8 ha day in December

#13 / 19in Uri

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 11:34 to 13:21, and on 21 June from 07:03 to 20:33.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 3h 19m earlier than over a flat horizon (February).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 3h 11m later than over a flat horizon (March).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.1 h	34 h
February	1.5 h	43 h
March	2.3 h	70 h
April	5.0 h	150 h
May	5.1 h	158 h
June	5.5 h	166 h
July	5.9 h	182 h
August	5.9 h	183 h
September	3.3 h	100 h
October	1.9 h	59 h
November	1.1 h	34 h
December	0.8 h	26 h

Climate in Unterschächen

6.3 °Cmean temperature

19.8 °CJuly daily high

−4.9 °CJanuary nightly low

1834 mmrain and snow a year

1184 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1001 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Uri

Erstfeld 1200 h
Göschenen 1200 h
Sisikon 1250 h
Seedorf (UR) 1290 h

Nearby

Bürglen (UR) 1470 h
Schattdorf 1350 h
Erstfeld 1200 h
Spiringen 1330 h

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