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Hilo is indeed fantastic. However, just a little to the South of Hilo the sun shines more and you get a little less rain. This is the microclimate effect caused by the big volcanoes.
I would think any of the Florida cities would do quite well. A good wet season, and even in the wet season the showers are not steady - quick hitting thundershowers followed by intense sun. Then at least 6 months or more has sunny dry weather.
Florida has the great combo of ....sunny, green, wet, but with a long dry season. It's green, but dry half the year:
Average 33 inches of rainfall annually
and still manages to receive an average of almost 4000 annual sunshine hours.
I don't know how they do it, must be Californian magic.
For example, El Paso gets less than 10 inches of rain but only 3700 annual sunshine hours.
Because those '4000 hours of sunshine' are inflated through different measuring systems in the US. The realistic value is most likely similar to El Paso at 3700 hours
Because those '4000 hours of sunshine' are inflated through different measuring systems in the US. The realistic value is most likely similar to El Paso at 3700 hours
Redding has already been commented on at length - there's little doubt the number is grossly inflated, probably no more than 3300-3400.
Ioannina Greece has around 1200-1300 mm of precipitation per year and around 2000 hours of sunshine per year. But the sunshine hours increase in summer in which the most days are sunny and if it rains it rains as thunderstorm for a few hours in the afternoon. It is not cloudy in the summer. The rest year we have low sunshine with many cloudy and rainy days.
But the reason Redding is so high in the sunshine hours is because they have nearly four straight months of cloudless skies in summer at over 40 degrees north. So, the sunny days are very long. The numbers are definitely inflated though. No doubt about that.
For European standards definitely Porto, more than 2400 hours of sunshine and more than 1200 mm of rain.
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