Sunshine in Wangen (SZ)

Wangen (SZ) gets about 1730 hours of sunshine a year, 44% of the possible maximum, or 4.7 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 68% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 2 of 30 places in Schwyz. That's about 140 hours more than the Schwyz average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 50 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1730 hsunshine a year

7.4 ha day in July

1.6 ha day in December

#2 / 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 09:39 to 15:17, and on 21 June from 05:59 to 20:54.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 58 min later than over a flat horizon (December).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 49 min earlier than over a flat horizon (December).

Month	per day	per month
January	2.0 h	63 h
February	3.3 h	93 h
March	4.6 h	144 h
April	5.8 h	175 h
May	6.0 h	186 h
June	7.0 h	211 h
July	7.4 h	230 h
August	6.9 h	215 h
September	5.6 h	168 h
October	4.1 h	126 h
November	2.4 h	73 h
December	1.6 h	48 h

Climate in Wangen (SZ)

10.0 °Cmean temperature

24.3 °CJuly daily high

−1.6 °CJanuary nightly low

1513 mmrain and snow a year

1189 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

434 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Schwyz

Lachen 1730 h
Tuggen 1750 h
Einsiedeln 1720 h
Freienbach 1710 h

Nearby

Schübelbach 1680 h
Galgenen 1680 h
Lachen 1730 h
Tuggen 1750 h

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