Sunshine in Zwischbergen

Zwischbergen (VS) gets about 820 hours of sunshine a year, 55% of the possible maximum, or 2.3 hours a day on average. That makes it sunnier than 0% of the places we cover in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the least sunny of 123 places in Valais. That's about 910 hours less than the Valais average of 1740. Mountains around it block about 1450 hours a year, already taken into account.

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820 hsunshine a year

5.3 ha day in July

0.0 ha day in January

#123 / 123in Valais

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: not at all on 21 December, and on 21 June from 08:04 to 17:07.

No direct sun on the 21st of January, November, December.
Morning shade: the sun reaches this spot up to 4h 27m later than over a flat horizon (October).
Evening shade: the sun goes behind the mountains up to 4h 11m earlier than over a flat horizon (April).

Month	per day	per month
January	0.0 h	0 h
February	0.7 h	20 h
March	2.0 h	62 h
April	2.7 h	81 h
May	3.9 h	119 h
June	5.1 h	152 h
July	5.3 h	165 h
August	4.0 h	125 h
September	2.2 h	67 h
October	1.1 h	34 h
November	0.0 h	0 h
December	0.0 h	0 h

Climate in Zwischbergen

7.6 °Cmean temperature

22.5 °CJuly daily high

−3.7 °CJanuary nightly low

1404 mmrain and snow a year

1273 kWh/m²solar radiation a year

830 mabove sea level

Similar sunshine in Valais

Eisten 1010 h
Saas-Almagell 1200 h
Saas-Balen 1220 h
Trient 1220 h

Nearby

Simplon 1550 h
Ried-Brig 1650 h
Saas-Balen 1220 h
Termen 1720 h

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