Sunshine in Vals

Vals (GR) gets about 1330 hours of sunshine a year, 47% of the possible maximum, or 3.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 2% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 88 of 100 places in Graubünden. That's about 290 hours less than the Graubünden average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 680 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1330 hsunshine a year

4.9 ha day in July

2.4 ha day in December

#88 / 100in Graubünden

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 10:46 to 15:18, and on 21 June from 08:07 to 18:49.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 39m later than over a flat horizon (March).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 13m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.9 h	89 h
February	3.3 h	93 h
March	3.7 h	113 h
April	3.8 h	113 h
May	3.8 h	119 h
June	4.5 h	134 h
July	4.9 h	153 h
August	4.6 h	142 h
September	3.9 h	117 h
October	3.4 h	106 h
November	2.6 h	77 h
December	2.4 h	73 h

Climate in Vals

5.8 °Cmean temperature

19.6 °CJuly daily high

−5.6 °CJanuary nightly low

1148 mmrain and snow a year

1257 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1254 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Graubünden

Zillis-Reischen 1310 h
Bregaglia 1300 h
Cama 1360 h
Medel (Lucmagn) 1370 h

Nearby

Lumnezia 1780 h
Rheinwald 1550 h
Sufers 1580 h
Obersaxen Mundaun 1780 h

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