Locarno, Ticino Climate & Temperature

• Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland is at 46°10'N, 8°49'E, 200 m (656 ft). See map.
• Locarno, Ticino has a humid subtropical climate that is mild with no dry season, constantly moist (year-round rainfall). Summers are hot and muggy with thunderstorms. Winters are mild with precipitation from mid-latitude cyclones. Seasonality is moderate. (Köppen-Geiger classification: Cfa).
• According to the Holdridge life zones system of bioclimatic classification Locarno, Ticino is situated in or near the boreal rain forest biome.

• The average annual temperature is 12.6 degrees Celsius (54.7 degrees Fahrenheit). See the temperatures page for a monthly breakdown and the fixed scale graph.
• Average monthly temperatures vary by 19.5 °C (35.1°F). This indicates that the continentality type is oceanic, subtype semicontinental.
• In the winter time records indicate temperatures by day reach 6°C (42.8°F) on average falling to 1.7°C (35°F) overnight.
• In spring time temperatures climb reaching 15°C (59°F) generally in the afternoon with overnight lows of 9°C (48.2°F).
• During summer average high temperatures are 24.7°C (76.4°F) and average low temperatures are 18°C (64.4°F).
• Come autumn/ fall temperatures decrease achieving average highs of 16°C (60.8°F) during the day and lows of 10.7°C (51.2°F) generally shortly after sunrise.
• Total annual Precipitation averages 1840 mm (72.4 inches) which is equivalent to 1840 Litres/m² (45.13 Gallons/ft²).
• On average there are 2286 hours of sunshine per year. Visit the sunshine and daylight section to check monthly details including how high in the sky the sun reaches each month.
• Were you to burrow down through the centre of the Earth from Locarno you would pop up nearest to the climate station at Castlepoint, New Zealand (Warm temperate thorn steppe biome).