December Sunshine Averages for Austria

The tables below give December averages for the amount of sunshine received at cities and towns throughout Austria.

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 this month normally has.

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).

Days data are for the typical number of days in December that are mainly sunny. That's when cloud covered the sun for no more than 20 percent of the day.

The month's hours and percentage of sun for most places are averages of weather data collected during 1981 to 2010, while the rest use 1971 to 2000 averages. The number of sunny days is based on measurements made from 1971 to 2000.

Western Austria

Total December sunshine
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
22	Bregenz	44	2
45	Innsbruck	83	4
45	Lienz	74	8
–	Mayrhofen	11	7
48	Nauders	62	7
48	Obergurgl	36	7
–	Reutte	81	6

Southern and Central Austria

Average amount of sun in December
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
–	Bad Gastein	30	7
33	Graz	80	3
25	Klagenfurt	62	2
47	Saalbach-Hinterglemm	48	7
27	Salzburg	63	2
41	Schladming	61	5
44	Schmittenhöhe	111	7
44	Sonnblick Mountain	115	5
35	Villach	73	3
36	Zell am See	58	3

Northern and Eastern Austria

Average December sun
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
40	Bad Aussee	50	–
20	Eisenstadt	53	2
21	Gmunden	31	1
39	Krippenstein	99	8
16	Linz	36	2
23	Neusiedl am See	55	3
21	Sankt Pölten	46	2
29	St. Wolfgang	58	2
21	Vienna	51	2

December Sunshine Averages for Austria

Western Austria

Southern and Central Austria

Northern and Eastern Austria

References

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