When the trails are no longer dry because the sun only pops in for a short time and then urgently has somewhere else to be, then you have time for the weather statistics. This doesn't help you to find out where the weather conditions will be right next weekend. On the other hand, the data series can tell you where you should move in order to experience as many sunny days as possible throughout the year.

For all those who don't want to emigrate, we asked MeteoSwiss in which five Swiss locations it rains the least. It comes as no surprise that the place with the least precipitation is in the canton of Valais. But the fact that the entire top five belong to this canton is a little impressive.

Top of the dryness ranking is Stalden, at the junction of the Mattertal and Saas valleys. An outstanding winner from a mountain biking perspective: no fewer than nine tours in the Ride tour database pass through Stalden. With 545 mm of rain per year, the village receives just under half as much precipitation as Lucerne, for example. In sunny Locarno, more than three times as much precipitation falls with 1897 mm. Incidentally, the wettest place in Switzerland is also favorably located: it is the Säntis with over 2800 mm of rain per year. Convenient because biking is not allowed in the Alpstein region anyway.

Locarno is the keyword for another climate ranking: Ticino dominates the ranking of the warmest places in Switzerland. Italian is spoken in four of the five hotspots. Pully on Lake Geneva is the fifth warmest measuring location and best of the rest. The question arises as to whether the average temperature is perhaps even more decisive for finding dry trails as often as possible. In other words: Is the ground in Ticino drier more often than in Valais? Stefan Bader from the Climate department at MeteoSwiss leaves no doubt: "The driest soils are found in Valais, i.e. in the region with the lowest rainfall and at the same time frequent fine weather days, which leads to high evaporation. Valais also has intensive artificial irrigation."

The bisses, the irrigation channels typical of Valais, are therefore not only a masterpiece of medieval engineering and a tourist attraction, but also an indication that mountain bikers have the best chance of finding dry ground there. So if you are looking for a strategically favorable place to set up your home office, you should take a closer look at 3922 Stalden.

Tour database: Stalden