Twelve benches on the Kleinbasel Rhine promenade, six rankings, one full year of sun. Computed, not guessed.
Order no. 0417 · as of 2026
The big map
All seven rankings on one picture. Pick what it should show, then tap a bench or a culprit. Dot size is the value, yellow is the leader.
Today's leader
Where is the most sun still left right now? This list computes in your browser and sends nothing to anyone.
·computing…
1 · Sunshine hours per year
How long the sun stands above the horizon as seen from the bench. With no shading at all, — hours would be possible.
Finding
The Dreiländereck reaches — % of what is theoretically possible. There is no more in Basel — that is the ceiling.
2 · Apéro sun, 5 to 9 p.m.
Only the hours when anyone actually sits by the Rhine. Yearly maximum: — hours.
3 · Morning sun, 7 to 11 a.m.
The counter-check — and here the ranking flips.
Reversal
Solitude ranks 4th over the year, 1st in the morning and second to last at apéro time. Dreirosen does the opposite: in the morning — hours a year, which is
— % of what Solitude gets. There is no best bench. There is only the question of when you come.
4 · Sunset guarantee
On how many days a year you can watch the sun actually set from the bench — rather than merely disappear behind a roof.
5 · Record of culprits
Who takes which bench's evening sun? For each bench the office looked for the ray that eats the most apéro hours, then checked what stands at the end of it. Sorted by severity.
Repeat offender
The University Hospital on Spitalstrasse blocks three benches — Johanniter, Flora and Kaserne. 480, 537 and 630 metres away, the same silhouette every time. Together — apéro hours a year.
For the recordThis is not an accusation, it is geometry: those buildings stand in the west, the sun sets in the west, that is all. The office levies no fine. It merely records who stands where.
6 · Supply distance
Straight-line distance to the nearest food or drink, and how much there is within 300 metres.
Supply desert
Seven of twelve benches sit right next to a buvette. The Wettstein Bridge bench stands — metres from anything — eleven minutes on foot, one way. Plan accordingly.
