The tables below pull together figures on the amount of sunshine each of the largest cities in the United States usually has in a year.

The % Sun number measures the percentage of time between sunrise and sunset that sunshine reaches the ground. Total Hours is the average number of sunny hours the city normally has in a year. Clear Days is the average number of days annually when cloud covers at most 30 percent of the sky during daylight hours.

Hours of sunshine are the means calculated for 1961 to 1990. The other data are averages taken from years of weather watching.

Average annual sunshine % Sun City Total Hours Clear Days 60 Atlanta, Georgia 2738 110 60 Austin, Texas 2644 115 57 Baltimore, Maryland 2582 105 58 Birmingham, Alabama 2641 99 58 Boston, Massachusetts 2634 98 48 Buffalo, New York 2207 54 62 Charlotte, North Carolina 2821 109 54 Chicago, Illinois 2508 84 50 Cincinnati, Ohio 2335 81 49 Cleveland, Ohio 2280 66 50 Columbus, Ohio 2183 72 61 Dallas, Texas 2850 135 69 Denver, Colorado 3107 115 53 Detroit, Michigan 2436 75 56 Hartford, Connecticut 2585 82 59 Houston, Texas 2578 90 55 Indianapolis, Indiana 2440 88

% Sun City Total Hours Clear Days 63 Jacksonville, Florida 2880 94 60 Kansas City, Missouri 2810 120 85 Las Vegas, Nevada 3825 210 73 Los Angeles, California – 147 56 Louisville, Kentucky 2514 93 64 Memphis, Tennessee 2888 118 70 Miami, Florida 3154 74 54 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2484 90 58 Minneapolis, Minnesota 2711 95 56 Nashville, Tennessee 2510 102 57 New Orleans, Louisiana 2649 101 58 New York, New York 2535 107 68 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 3089 139 56 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2498 93 85 Phoenix, Arizona 3872 211 45 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2021 59