Average Sunshine in Switzerland for October

The tables below give October 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 October sunshine

Hours	Place	%
131	Chasseral	39
143	Evolène	60
116	Geneva (Genève)	40
124	Great St Bernard Pass	47
134	La Chaux-de-Fonds	44
132	Lausanne	41
167	Montana	56
108	Neuchâel (Neuenburg)	34
127	Nyon	41
113	Payerne	37
160	Sion (Sitten)	59
133	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 October

Hours	Place	%
86	Aarau	29
119	Adelboden	52
107	Basel	37
119	Bern (Bären)	38
112	Engelberg	47
145	Gütsch	49
92	Güttingen	30
102	Interlaken	50
145	Jungfraujoch	53
99	Lucerne (Luzern)	33
159	Mount Pilatus	52
161	Säntis	48
88	Schaffhausen	31
101	St. Gallen	34
107	Wädenswil	35
109	Zürich	35

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 October sun

Hours	Place	%
136	Arosa	52
132	Chur	54
156	Cimetta	49
145	Davos	54
118	Disentis (Mustér)	49
86	Glarus	51
152	Locarno	51
141	Lugano	48
165	Piz Corvatsch	53
138	Samedan	57
109	San Bernardino	48
138	Scuol	54
126	Stabio	42
165	Weissfluhjoch	51