Swiss SunSunshine in Wahlen
Wahlen (BL) gets about 1670 hours of sunshine a year, 42% of the possible maximum, or 4.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 50% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 32 of 86 places in Basel-Landschaft. That's about 50 hours more than the Basel-Landschaft average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 40 hours a year, already taken into account.
Explore Wahlen on the sunshine mapSunshine 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 09:03 to 15:34, and on 21 June from 06:04 to 20:59.
- Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 42 min earlier than over a flat horizon (January).
| Month | per day | per month |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1.9 h | 59 h |
| February | 2.8 h | 79 h |
| March | 4.1 h | 128 h |
| April | 5.5 h | 166 h |
| May | 6.0 h | 187 h |
| June | 7.0 h | 211 h |
| July | 7.6 h | 236 h |
| August | 7.1 h | 220 h |
| September | 5.4 h | 161 h |
| October | 3.5 h | 107 h |
| November | 2.0 h | 59 h |
| December | 1.7 h | 51 h |
Climate in Wahlen
Similar sunshine in Basel-Landschaft
- Lausen 1670 h
- Liesberg 1670 h
- Gelterkinden 1670 h
- Känerkinden 1660 h
Nearby
- Büsserach 1580 h
- Grindel 1580 h
- Breitenbach 1650 h
- Laufen 1680 h
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