Swiss Sun

Sunshine in Walchwil

Walchwil (ZG) gets about 1500 hours of sunshine a year, 42% of the possible maximum, or 4.1 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 7% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the least sunny of 11 places in Zug. That's about 160 hours less than the Zug average of 1660. Mountains around it block about 220 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1500 hsunshine a year
6.2 ha day in July
1.7 ha day in December
#11 / 11in Zug

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.

0h5h10h15hJanuary: 2.1 h a dayFebruary: 3.1 h a dayMarch: 4.1 h a dayApril: 5.2 h a dayMay: 5.4 h a dayJune: 5.8 h a dayJuly: 6.2 h a dayAugust: 6.0 h a daySeptember: 4.7 h a dayOctober: 3.1 h a dayNovember: 1.9 h a dayDecember: 1.7 h a dayJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Direct sun at the centre on a clear day, with the mountains around it: on 21 December from 09:39 to 15:45, and on 21 June from 07:54 to 20:55.

Monthper dayper month
January2.1 h66 h
February3.1 h87 h
March4.1 h129 h
April5.2 h157 h
May5.4 h167 h
June5.8 h175 h
July6.2 h193 h
August6.0 h185 h
September4.7 h140 h
October3.1 h98 h
November1.9 h57 h
December1.7 h52 h

Climate in Walchwil

10.0 °Cmean temperature
24.4 °CJuly daily high
−1.7 °CJanuary nightly low
1373 mmrain and snow a year
1167 kWh/m²solar radiation a year
468 mabove sea level

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