Sunshine in Urnäsch

Urnäsch (AR) gets about 1600 hours of sunshine a year, 42% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 23% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the least sunny of 20 places in Appenzell Ausserrhoden. That's about 70 hours less than the Appenzell Ausserrhoden average of 1670. Mountains around it block about 150 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1600 hsunshine a year

6.3 ha day in July

2.2 ha day in December

#20 / 20in Appenzell Ausserrhoden

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 09:30 to 15:45, and on 21 June from 06:04 to 19:52.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 05m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 55 min later than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.6 h	82 h
February	3.4 h	96 h
March	4.5 h	139 h
April	5.2 h	157 h
May	5.2 h	163 h
June	5.9 h	177 h
July	6.3 h	196 h
August	6.1 h	189 h
September	5.1 h	153 h
October	3.7 h	115 h
November	2.3 h	69 h
December	2.2 h	67 h

Climate in Urnäsch

8.0 °Cmean temperature

21.2 °CJuly daily high

−3.2 °CJanuary nightly low

1677 mmrain and snow a year

1187 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

841 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Schönengrund 1600 h
Grub (AR) 1620 h
Bühler 1630 h
Teufen (AR) 1630 h

Nearby

Schönengrund 1600 h
Waldstatt 1680 h
Schwellbrunn 1730 h
Gonten 1650 h

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