Average Sunshine in Switzerland for July

The tables below give July 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 July sunshine

Hours	Place	%
202	Chasseral	43
212	Evolène	55
269	Geneva (Genève)	62
212	Great St Bernard Pass	53
215	La Chaux-de-Fonds	50
259	Lausanne	59
243	Montana	59
254	Neuchâel (Neuenburg)	58
266	Nyon	61
254	Payerne	56
271	Sion (Sitten)	65
185	Zermatt	63

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 July

Hours	Place	%
220	Aarau	52
184	Adelboden	50
235	Basel	54
245	Bern (Bären)	55
164	Engelberg	45
214	Gütsch	51
238	Güttingen	52
223	Interlaken	52
181	Jungfraujoch	43
209	Lucerne (Luzern)	47
162	Mount Pilatus	36
168	Säntis	36
221	Schaffhausen	54
227	St. Gallen	50
234	Wädenswil	51
229	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 July sun

Hours	Place	%
197	Arosa	48
208	Chur	57
258	Cimetta	58
188	Davos	53
197	Disentis (Mustér)	51
175	Glarus	49
268	Locarno	65
260	Lugano	66
200	Piz Corvatsch	45
199	Samedan	58
163	San Bernardino	49
214	Scuol	53
268	Stabio	63
186	Weissfluhjoch	42