Sunshine in Val-de-Ruz

Val-de-Ruz (NE) gets about 1680 hours of sunshine a year, 43% of the possible maximum, or 4.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 57% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 15 of 24 places in Neuchâtel. That's about 30 hours less than the Neuchâtel average of 1710. Mountains around it block about 130 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1680 hsunshine a year

6.9 ha day in July

2.2 ha day in December

#15 / 24in Neuchâtel

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 08:53 to 16:20, and on 21 June from 06:10 to 19:42.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 24m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.6 h	79 h
February	3.4 h	94 h
March	4.5 h	139 h
April	5.4 h	163 h
May	5.7 h	177 h
June	6.4 h	193 h
July	6.9 h	214 h
August	6.5 h	201 h
September	5.3 h	158 h
October	3.9 h	120 h
November	2.6 h	78 h
December	2.2 h	68 h

Climate in Val-de-Ruz

8.6 °Cmean temperature

22.2 °CJuly daily high

−2.2 °CJanuary nightly low

1195 mmrain and snow a year

1281 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

792 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Neuchâtel

Val-de-Travers 1680 h
Lignières 1690 h
Cortaillod 1690 h
Le Landeron 1670 h

Nearby

Renan (BE) 1620 h
Laténa 1710 h
Neuchâtel 1730 h
La Chaux-de-Fonds 1740 h

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