Sunshine in Vorderthal

Vorderthal (SZ) gets about 1460 hours of sunshine a year, 45% of the possible maximum, or 4.0 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 5% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 26 of 30 places in Schwyz. That's about 130 hours less than the Schwyz average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 400 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1460 hsunshine a year

6.3 ha day in July

1.6 ha day in December

#26 / 30in Schwyz

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 09:34 to 13:44, and on 21 June from 06:59 to 20:29.

Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 2h 35m earlier than over a flat horizon (October).
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 06m later than over a flat horizon (February).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.9 h	60 h
February	2.5 h	70 h
March	3.7 h	115 h
April	5.0 h	151 h
May	5.1 h	157 h
June	6.1 h	182 h
July	6.3 h	196 h
August	6.0 h	186 h
September	4.7 h	142 h
October	3.1 h	96 h
November	2.0 h	60 h
December	1.6 h	50 h

Climate in Vorderthal

7.8 °Cmean temperature

22.0 °CJuly daily high

−4.5 °CJanuary nightly low

1911 mmrain and snow a year

1160 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

745 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Schwyz

Morschach 1430 h
Alpthal 1430 h
Innerthal 1510 h
Muotathal 1410 h

Nearby

Innerthal 1510 h
Schübelbach 1680 h
Galgenen 1680 h
Wangen (SZ) 1730 h

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