Swiss Sun

Sunshine in Zwingen

Zwingen (BL) gets about 1660 hours of sunshine a year, 41% of the possible maximum, or 4.6 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 49% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and number 35 of 86 places in Basel-Landschaft. That's about 50 hours more than the Basel-Landschaft average of 1620. Mountains around it block about 30 hours a year, already taken into account.

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1660 hsunshine a year
7.4 ha day in July
1.8 ha day in December
#35 / 86in Basel-Landschaft

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: 3.0 h a dayMarch: 4.1 h a dayApril: 5.4 h a dayMay: 5.9 h a dayJune: 6.8 h a dayJuly: 7.4 h a dayAugust: 7.0 h a daySeptember: 5.3 h a dayOctober: 3.6 h a dayNovember: 2.2 h a dayDecember: 1.8 h a dayJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Direct sun at the centre on a clear day, with the mountains around it: on 21 December from 09:07 to 16:09, and on 21 June from 06:15 to 20:42.

Monthper dayper month
January2.1 h64 h
February3.0 h84 h
March4.1 h127 h
April5.4 h163 h
May5.9 h181 h
June6.8 h204 h
July7.4 h230 h
August7.0 h218 h
September5.3 h160 h
October3.6 h110 h
November2.2 h65 h
December1.8 h55 h

Climate in Zwingen

10.3 °Cmean temperature
25.1 °CJuly daily high
−1.2 °CJanuary nightly low
1030 mmrain and snow a year
1218 kWh/m²solar radiation a year
342 mabove sea level

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