Sunshine in Visp

Visp (VS) gets about 1780 hours of sunshine a year, 56% of the possible maximum, or 4.9 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 76% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 53 of 123 places in Valais. That's about 40 hours more than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 530 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1780 hsunshine a year

8.6 ha day in July

1.8 ha day in December

#53 / 123in Valais

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 10:12 to 14:07, and on 21 June from 06:33 to 20:31.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 25m earlier than over a flat horizon (February).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 51m later than over a flat horizon (March).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.2 h	67 h
February	3.0 h	85 h
March	3.9 h	121 h
April	6.0 h	181 h
May	7.0 h	216 h
June	8.0 h	241 h
July	8.6 h	265 h
August	7.6 h	237 h
September	4.9 h	146 h
October	3.2 h	100 h
November	2.1 h	64 h
December	1.8 h	57 h

Climate in Visp

9.5 °Cmean temperature

26.6 °CJuly daily high

−5.0 °CJanuary nightly low

547 mmrain and snow a year

1412 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

648 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Visperterminen 1780 h
Monthey 1780 h
Grône 1790 h
Riederalp 1770 h

Nearby

Lalden 1770 h
Eggerberg 2040 h
Baltschieder 1890 h
Zeneggen 1880 h

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