Average Sunshine in Switzerland for August

The tables below give August 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 August sunshine

Hours	Place	%
189	Chasseral	44
194	Evolène	57
242	Geneva (Genève)	62
202	Great St Bernard Pass	53
205	La Chaux-de-Fonds	52
241	Lausanne	59
231	Montana	60
234	Neuchâel (Neuenburg)	57
244	Nyon	60
236	Payerne	56
250	Sion (Sitten)	65
176	Zermatt	65

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 August

Hours	Place	%
204	Aarau	51
172	Adelboden	52
217	Basel	55
228	Bern (Bären)	56
157	Engelberg	48
208	Gütsch	52
217	Güttingen	52
199	Interlaken	53
183	Jungfraujoch	48
198	Lucerne (Luzern)	49
165	Mount Pilatus	41
171	Säntis	40
205	Schaffhausen	55
209	St. Gallen	50
218	Wädenswil	52
216	Zürich	53

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 August sun

Hours	Place	%
184	Arosa	50
192	Chur	59
236	Cimetta	57
179	Davos	54
183	Disentis (Mustér)	52
163	Glarus	51
249	Locarno	63
245	Lugano	65
185	Piz Corvatsch	45
181	Samedan	57
154	San Bernardino	50
195	Scuol	53
241	Stabio	61
181	Weissfluhjoch	45