Sunshine in Wikon

Wikon (LU) gets about 1520 hours of sunshine a year, 40% of the possible maximum, or 4.2 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 9% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 72 of 79 places in Lucerne. That's about 70 hours less than the Lucerne average of 1600. Mountains around it block about 120 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1520 hsunshine a year

7.0 ha day in July

1.3 ha day in December

#72 / 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 09:15 to 16:11, and on 21 June from 07:11 to 20:59.

Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 1h 09m later than over a flat horizon (June).

Month	per day	per month
January	1.6 h	50 h
February	2.7 h	75 h
March	4.1 h	126 h
April	5.3 h	158 h
May	5.6 h	173 h
June	6.5 h	196 h
July	7.0 h	218 h
August	6.5 h	202 h
September	4.8 h	144 h
October	2.9 h	90 h
November	1.7 h	51 h
December	1.3 h	39 h

Climate in Wikon

9.5 °Cmean temperature

24.9 °CJuly daily high

−2.1 °CJanuary nightly low

1114 mmrain and snow a year

1244 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

450 mabove sea level

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Nearby

Brittnau 1630 h
Zofingen 1620 h
Strengelbach 1640 h
Reiden 1600 h

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