Average Sunshine in Switzerland for January

The tables below give January 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 January sunshine

Hours	Place	%
98	Chasseral	36
110	Evolène	59
61	Geneva (Genève)	25
55	Great St Bernard Pass	48
95	La Chaux-de-Fonds	38
77	Lausanne	29
134	Montana	54
53	Neuchâel (Neuenburg)	20
72	Nyon	28
60	Payerne	24
93	Sion (Sitten)	53
94	Zermatt	59

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 January

Hours	Place	%
41	Aarau	19
89	Adelboden	50
65	Basel	28
66	Bern (Bären)	26
51	Engelberg	46
126	Gütsch	52
44	Güttingen	18
67	Interlaken	41
117	Jungfraujoch	49
51	Lucerne (Luzern)	23
124	Mount Pilatus	51
128	Säntis	46
42	Schaffhausen	19
57	St. Gallen	27
56	Wädenswil	24
60	Zürich	24

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 January sun

Hours	Place	%
110	Arosa	53
97	Chur	49
160	Cimetta	61
111	Davos	54
86	Disentis (Mustér)	49
62	Glarus	44
134	Locarno	60
124	Lugano	56
141	Piz Corvatsch	57
120	Samedan	59
97	San Bernardino	54
98	Scuol	55
121	Stabio	55
142	Weissfluhjoch	52