Average Sunshine in Switzerland for April

The tables below give April 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 month's 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 April sunshine

Hours	Place	%
157	Chasseral	39
164	Evolène	52
187	Geneva (Genève)	51
149	Great St Bernard Pass	42
160	La Chaux-de-Fonds	43
193	Lausanne	50
189	Montana	53
188	Neuchâel (Neuenburg)	49
193	Nyon	51
187	Payerne	48
210	Sion (Sitten)	59
147	Zermatt	58

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 sun in April

Hours	Place	%
167	Aarau	45
143	Adelboden	46
167	Basel	45
179	Bern (Bären)	47
146	Engelberg	47
155	Gütsch	40
182	Güttingen	47
164	Interlaken	48
160	Jungfraujoch	44
162	Lucerne (Luzern)	43
156	Mount Pilatus	41
162	Säntis	41
165	Schaffhausen	46
168	St. Gallen	43
183	Wädenswil	47
178	Zürich	47

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).

Average April sun

Hours	Place	%
148	Arosa	43
159	Chur	53
188	Cimetta	48
152	Davos	48
141	Disentis (Mustér)	43
137	Glarus	49
195	Locarno	53
182	Lugano	51
174	Piz Corvatsch	45
150	Samedan	51
128	San Bernardino	44
170	Scuol	50
178	Stabio	48
163	Weissfluhjoch	43