Average Sunshine in Switzerland for April

The tables below give April 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 April sunshine
Hours Place %
157 Chasseral 39
164 Evolène 52
187 Geneva (Genève) 51
149 Great St Bernard Pass  42
160 La Chaux-de-Fonds  43
193 Lausanne 50
189 Montana 53
188 Neuchâel (Neuenburg) 49
193 Nyon 51
187 Payerne 48
210 Sion (Sitten) 59
147 Zermatt 58

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 April
Hours Place %
167 Aarau 45
143 Adelboden 46
167 Basel 45
179 Bern (Bären) 47
146 Engelberg 47
155 Gütsch 40
182 Güttingen 47
164 Interlaken 48
160 Jungfraujoch 44
162 Lucerne (Luzern) 43
156 Mount Pilatus 41
162 Säntis 41
165 Schaffhausen 46
168 St. Gallen 43
183 Wädenswil 47
178 Zürich 47

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 April sun
Hours Place %
148 Arosa 43
159 Chur 53
188 Cimetta 48
152 Davos 48
141 Disentis (Mustér) 43
137 Glarus 49
195 Locarno 53
182 Lugano 51
174 Piz Corvatsch  45
150 Samedan 51
128 San Bernardino 44
170 Scuol 50
178 Stabio 48
163 Weissfluhjoch 43
Reference

Swiss federal authorities. Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss. Normal values per measured parameter.

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