Sunshine in Vitznau

Vitznau (LU) gets about 1400 hours of sunshine a year, 43% of the possible maximum, or 3.8 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 4% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the least sunny of 79 places in Lucerne. That's about 190 hours less than the Lucerne average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 350 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1400 hsunshine a year

6.0 ha day in July

1.4 ha day in December

#79 / 79in Lucerne

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 11:01 to 15:55, and on 21 June from 08:14 to 20:56.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 2h 36m later than over a flat horizon (February).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.8 h	55 h
February	2.6 h	73 h
March	3.9 h	119 h
April	5.1 h	152 h
May	5.4 h	167 h
June	5.6 h	168 h
July	6.0 h	185 h
August	5.6 h	175 h
September	4.3 h	128 h
October	2.8 h	87 h
November	1.6 h	48 h
December	1.4 h	44 h

Climate in Vitznau

9.6 °Cmean temperature

24.0 °CJuly daily high

−2.0 °CJanuary nightly low

1675 mmrain and snow a year

1145 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

450 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Lucerne

Greppen 1410 h
Wolhusen 1440 h
Luthern 1470 h
Menznau 1490 h

Nearby

Weggis 1580 h
Gersau 1520 h
Beckenried 1550 h
Emmetten 1370 h

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