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Fog report Mon, 12/12

Fog lid at 1,000–1,600 m, sun above it.

Most sun: Säntis with 8 h 12 min. On the Swiss Plateau 23 of 43 weather stations saw not a single minute of sun.

Measured on Monday 12 December 2022 · Source: MeteoSwiss, SwissMetNet stations

Station up to 1,600 mStation above 1,600 mFog lid, measured

Sun staircase · 12/12/2022 · measured

Sun by altitude at 71 weather stations

Each dot is a MeteoSwiss station: up, how high it lies; right, how long it measured sun on Mon, 12/12.

Stations without a minute of sun: 24

  • Uetliberg854 m0 min
  • Lägern845 m0 min
  • Salen-Reutenen719 m0 min
  • Zürich / Fluntern604 m0 min
  • Bern / Zollikofen553 m0 min
  • Aadorf / Tänikon539 m0 min

Longest in the sun

  • Säntis2,501 m8 h 12 min
  • Napf1,404 m7 h 11 min
  • Hörnli1,133 m7 h 1 min
  • Altenrhein398 m6 h 48 min

Above the fog lid: summits from 1,700 m

All measurements of Mon, 12/12

Minutes of sun per hour at 71 MeteoSwiss weather stations, sorted by height. Each cell is an hour; the dashed line is the measured fog level.

Station · hour ending91011121314151617Total
Jungfraujoch3,571 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min7 min8 min36 min0 min51 min
Säntis2,501 m49 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min23 min8 h 12 min
Gütsch, Andermatt2,286 m5 min60 min49 min7 min59 min60 min60 min60 min18 min6 h 18 min
Pilatus2,105 m0 min54 min60 min60 min57 min60 min60 min49 min0 min6 h 40 min
Le Moléson1,974 m9 min3 min13 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min3 min5 h 28 min
La Dôle1,670 m16 min36 min41 min60 min60 min60 min60 min39 min0 min6 h 12 min
Chasseral1,594 m0 min16 min23 min7 min60 min60 min60 min60 min17 min5 h 3 min
Napf1,404 m1 min54 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min16 min7 h 11 min
Adelboden1,321 m0 min0 min0 min53 min60 min60 min60 min57 min0 min4 h 50 min
Bullet / La Frétaz1,205 m0 min0 min12 min9 min12 min7 min0 min0 min0 min40 min
Chaumont1,136 m0 min0 min0 min4 min15 min14 min12 min0 min0 min45 min
Hörnli1,133 m40 min60 min60 min60 min58 min49 min60 min34 min0 min7 h 1 min
La Brévine1,050 m0 min32 min2 min52 min60 min60 min60 min60 min4 min5 h 30 min
Plaffeien1,042 m14 min43 min6 min56 min60 min60 min60 min60 min3 min6 h 2 min
Engelberg1,036 m0 min0 min0 min0 min27 min60 min17 min0 min0 min1 h 44 min
Château-d'Oex1,028 m0 min0 min19 min60 min60 min60 min60 min60 min0 min5 h 19 min
La Chaux-de-Fonds1,017 m0 min21 min8 min37 min60 min60 min60 min60 min4 min5 h 10 min
Bantiger942 m0 min0 min0 min4 min5 min8 min17 min60 min14 min1 h 48 min
Einsiedeln911 m0 min55 min60 min39 min57 min60 min60 min60 min2 min6 h 33 min
Uetliberg854 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Lägern845 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Oron828 m9 min0 min14 min37 min60 min60 min60 min57 min0 min4 h 57 min
St. Gallen776 m0 min0 min56 min4 min28 min47 min58 min9 min0 min3 h 22 min
Frutigen756 m0 min0 min0 min40 min60 min60 min60 min39 min0 min4 h 19 min
Langnau i.E.744 m0 min0 min35 min25 min60 min60 min60 min37 min0 min4 h 37 min
Salen-Reutenen719 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
Bière684 m0 min0 min0 min0 min28 min46 min54 min43 min0 min2 h 51 min
Fribourg / Grangeneuve651 m0 min29 min2 min37 min51 min3 min0 min0 min0 min2 h 2 min
Ebnat-Kappel623 m19 min58 min60 min60 min60 min43 min30 min0 min0 min5 h 30 min
Rünenberg611 m0 min0 min4 min0 min2 min14 min4 min0 min0 min24 min
Zürich / Fluntern604 m0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min0 min
no sun1–19 min20–44 min45–60 minMeasured fog levelMeasurements: MeteoSwiss, SwissMetNet

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