Swiss SunSunshine in Val-de-Travers
Val-de-Travers (NE) gets about 1680 hours of sunshine a year, 45% 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 16 of 24 places in Neuchâtel. That's about 30 hours less than the Neuchâtel average of 1710. Mountains around it block about 170 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Val-de-Travers on the sunshine mapSunshine 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 10:00 to 16:07, and on 21 June from 06:06 to 20:41.
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 26m earlier than over a flat horizon (April).
- Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 14m later than over a flat horizon (December).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2.8 h | 86 h |
| February | 3.4 h | 94 h |
| March | 4.2 h | 130 h |
| April | 4.9 h | 146 h |
| May | 5.6 h | 173 h |
| June | 7.0 h | 209 h |
| July | 7.4 h | 230 h |
| August | 6.4 h | 198 h |
| September | 5.0 h | 149 h |
| October | 3.8 h | 117 h |
| November | 2.6 h | 78 h |
| December | 2.3 h | 73 h |
Climate in Val-de-Travers
Similar sunshine in Neuchâtel
- Val-de-Ruz 1680 h
- Lignières 1690 h
- Cortaillod 1690 h
- Le Landeron 1670 h
Nearby
- Mauborget 1810 h
- Tévenon 1720 h
- Grandevent 1680 h
- Les Verrières 1770 h
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