Sunshine in Val de Bagnes

Val de Bagnes (VS) gets about 1700 hours of sunshine a year, 54% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 62% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 66 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 30 hours less than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 550 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1700 hsunshine a year

6.9 ha day in July

1.7 ha day in December

#66 / 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 11:48 to 15:10, and on 21 June from 07:26 to 19:16.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 3h 11m later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 46m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.2 h	69 h
February	3.7 h	103 h
March	5.2 h	161 h
April	5.3 h	159 h
May	5.4 h	168 h
June	6.4 h	192 h
July	6.9 h	212 h
August	6.6 h	205 h
September	5.9 h	176 h
October	4.3 h	133 h
November	2.3 h	70 h
December	1.7 h	52 h

Climate in Val de Bagnes

8.4 °Cmean temperature

23.8 °CJuly daily high

−4.5 °CJanuary nightly low

838 mmrain and snow a year

1406 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

846 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Lax 1700 h
Sembrancher 1710 h
Vionnaz 1690 h
Goms 1680 h

Nearby

Sembrancher 1710 h
Verbier 1850 h
Orsières 1550 h
Saxon 1760 h

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