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
Reference

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

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