Amount of Sunshine a Year in Austria

The tables below give yearly averages for how much sun cities and towns get in Austria.

You can jump to a separate table for each section of the country: Western Austria that includes the regions of Tyrol (Tirol) and Vorarlberg, Southern and Central Austria which covers Carinthia (Kärnten), Salzburg and Styria (Steiermark) and Northern and Eastern Austria which takes in Burgenland, Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), Upper Austria (Oberösterreich) plus Vienna (Wien).

Each place has three measures of sunshine. The number for % Sun is the usual percentage of daylight hours when the sun shines. Hours gives the total hours of sunshine that's normal during a year.

Days are the typical number of days annually when cloud covered the sun for no more than 20 percent of the time.

The data for most places are averages of weather measurements collected during 1981 to 2010, while the rest use 1971 to 2000 averages.

Western Austria

Total annual sunshine

% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
39	Bregenz	1630	35
50	Innsbruck	1949	33
54	Lienz	2051	66
–	Mayrhofen	1291	71
50	Nauders	1690	62
52	Obergurgl	1300	57
–	Reutte	1717	55

Southern and Central Austria

Average amount of sunshine yearly

% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
–	Bad Gastein	1344	57
46	Graz	1989	39
46	Klagenfurt	1981	39
48	Saalbach-Hinterglemm	1604	80
39	Salzburg	1697	38
46	Schladming	1803	43
45	Schmittenhöhe	1868	48
41	Sonnblick Mountain	1746	40
45	Villach	1920	34
46	Zell am See	1586	60

Northern and Eastern Austria

Annual average sun

% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
46	Bad Aussee	1620	92
39	Eisenstadt	1999	45
44	Gmunden	1565	45
43	Krippenstein	1842	60
38	Linz	1682	58
47	Neusiedl am See	2002	57
42	Sankt Pölten	1829	39
43	St. Wolfgang	1621	41
43	Vienna	1930	38