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Sunshine in Vaulruz

Vaulruz (FR) gets about 1900 hours of sunshine a year, 46% of the possible maximum, or 5.2 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 89% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 8 of 120 places in Fribourg. That's about 90 hours more than the Fribourg average of 1800.

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1900 hsunshine a year
7.6 ha day in July
2.6 ha day in December
#8 / 120in Fribourg

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.

0h5h10h15hJanuary: 3.1 h a dayFebruary: 4.0 h a dayMarch: 5.2 h a dayApril: 5.8 h a dayMay: 6.1 h a dayJune: 7.1 h a dayJuly: 7.6 h a dayAugust: 7.2 h a daySeptember: 6.0 h a dayOctober: 4.4 h a dayNovember: 3.0 h a dayDecember: 2.6 h a dayJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Direct sun at the centre on a clear day, with the mountains around it: on 21 December from 08:58 to 16:22, and on 21 June from 06:07 to 21:02.

Monthper dayper month
January3.1 h96 h
February4.0 h113 h
March5.2 h162 h
April5.8 h175 h
May6.1 h188 h
June7.1 h214 h
July7.6 h236 h
August7.2 h222 h
September6.0 h179 h
October4.4 h137 h
November3.0 h91 h
December2.6 h81 h

Climate in Vaulruz

8.2 °Cmean temperature
22.6 °CJuly daily high
−3.5 °CJanuary nightly low
1350 mmrain and snow a year
1340 kWh/m²solar radiation a year
813 mabove sea level

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