Sunshine in Vaz/Obervaz

Vaz/Obervaz (GR) gets about 1590 hours of sunshine a year, 48% of the possible maximum, or 4.4 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 20% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 66 of 100 places in Graubünden. That's about 20 hours less than the Graubünden average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 460 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1590 hsunshine a year

5.9 ha day in July

2.8 ha day in December

#66 / 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 09:35 to 15:24, and on 21 June from 06:57 to 19:21.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 1h 43m earlier than over a flat horizon (June).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 26m later than over a flat horizon (September).

Month	per day	per month
January	3.3 h	102 h
February	3.8 h	107 h
March	4.4 h	137 h
April	4.6 h	139 h
May	4.7 h	146 h
June	5.4 h	163 h
July	5.9 h	184 h
August	5.5 h	171 h
September	4.8 h	143 h
October	4.1 h	126 h
November	3.0 h	90 h
December	2.8 h	85 h

Climate in Vaz/Obervaz

4.9 °Cmean temperature

18.4 °CJuly daily high

−7.0 °CJanuary nightly low

1048 mmrain and snow a year

1340 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

1635 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Graubünden

Sumvitg 1590 h
Fideris 1600 h
Avers 1600 h
Roveredo (GR) 1600 h

Nearby

Churwalden 1390 h
Lantsch/Lenz 1780 h
Scharans 1680 h
Domleschg 1610 h

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