Average Sunshine a Year in Switzerland

The tables below give yearly averages for the number of sunny hours and the percentage of time between sunrise and sunset that the sun shines at cities, resorts and mountains across Switzerland.

The annual totals are averages of weather data collected during 1991 to 2020.

Western Switzerland

This section covers the mainly French speaking portion of Switzerland. It includes the area around Lake Geneva and the cantons of Fribourg, Geneva, Jura, Neuchâtel, Valais and Vaud.

Some of the weather stations are at high elevations in the Valais (or Pennine) Alps of southwestern Switzerland. Great St. Bernard Pass (Col du Grand St-Bernard) is the highest point on this list at 2472 metres (8110 feet). Also above 1400 metres (or 4600 feet) are Chasseral mountain and the resort towns of Zermatt and Montana.

Total annual sunshine

Hours	Place	%
1694	Chasseral	39
1840	Evolène	55
1887	Geneva (Genève)	48
1595	Great St Bernard Pass	48
1754	La Chaux-de-Fonds	44
1957	Lausanne	47
2141	Montana	55
1800	Neuchâel (Neuenburg)	43
1961	Nyon	47
1832	Payerne	44
2158	Sion (Sitten)	60
1649	Zermatt	61

Central & Northern Switzerland

While most places on this list are below 1000 metres (3280 feet) elevation, there are some mountainous locations. Säntis, near Schwägalp, at 2502 metres (8209 feet) elevation is the highest point in the Appenzell Alps. Even higher is the weather station at 3580 metres (11,745 feet), above Jungfraujoch pass of the Bernese Alps.

Average amount of sunshine yearly

Hours	Place	%
1529	Aarau	39
1570	Adelboden	48
1687	Basel	43
1797	Bern (Bären)	43
1380	Engelberg	45
1866	Gütsch	47
1650	Güttingen	40
1625	Interlaken	48
1773	Jungfraujoch	45
1530	Lucerne (Luzern)	38
1726	Mount Pilatus	42
1787	Säntis	41
1540	Schaffhausen	41
1619	St. Gallen	40
1703	Wädenswil	42
1694	Zürich	42

Eastern Switzerland

This list includes two low-elevation cities, Locarno and Lugano, in the canton of Ticino of south-east Switzerland.

Several places here in the canton of Graubünden are mountain resort towns, including Davos, Scuol and Samedan, which sit above 1500 metres (4921 feet) elevation.

High-altitude locations include Gütsch located above Andermatt at 2286 m. On Weissfluhjoch, a peak in the Plessur Range above Davos, weather is reported from just below the summit, at 2690 metres (8825 feet) elevation. On Piz Corvatsch, near Silvaplana in the Bernina Range, the weather is measured at 3305 metres (10,843 feet).

Annual average sun

Hours	Place	%
1693	Arosa	47
1740	Chur	53
2256	Cimetta	54
1725	Davos	51
1582	Disentis (Mustér)	47
1331	Glarus	48
2228	Locarno	57
2120	Lugano	56
1961	Piz Corvatsch	47
1767	Samedan	55
1470	San Bernardino	48
1785	Scuol	51
2063	Stabio	53
1894	Weissfluhjoch	45