Sunniest major cities in the world (snow, warmest, temperatures, nights)

[sulkiercupid]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

If SF on the list shouldn't San Jose be on the list? More to the point, shouldn't Sacramento and Fresno be on the list?

Where's Riyadh, Mecca, Medina, Aden, Amman?

You'd assume a lot of Arab cities would comfortably make the list, but it's hard to find verifiable stats for a lot of them.

[SophieLL]

Originally Posted by sanfel

Interesting that I haven't seen any South American cities on the lists. (Unless I have skipped some).

The city of San Juan, Argentina, has a population of 471,000 including the metro area, and according to this site: http://hitchwiki.org/es/San_Juan_(Argentina), it has a daily average of 9 hours of sun, which gives a total of 3240 hours annually. I don't know how reliable that site is, and the fact that Mendoza (just some 150 miles south) has 2589 hours makes me wonder about the accuracy of the data. Anyway, at least San Juan should deserve an honorable mention in South America. I don't think it has less than 2800 hours.

Trying to find the sunniest places in argentina, i stumble upon a data of more than 3000 sunshine hours for San Juan, too. It could be, why not? I know people from San Juan that live here and they say its always sunny there ahd MUCH sunnier than BA. 2800 doesnt sound MUCH sunnier than BA, while 3000+do. Maybe Mendoza is sunnier too.

[RWood]

Check out the educaplus (or similar name) site I have often used on this forum - can't get to it myself as am not at home computer. I remain sceptical about San Juan until I see its version.

[sanfel]

Originally Posted by RWood

Check out the educaplus (or similar name) site I have often used on this forum - can't get to it myself as am not at home computer. I remain sceptical about San Juan until I see its version.

Unfortunately, educaplus doesn't have the data for San Juan.
And the 2589 hrs for Mendoza I took from that very same website.

[ChesterNZ]

Toiliara, Madagascar has around 3600 hrs and a pop. of 100k: Toliara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[RWood]

Originally Posted by ChesterNZ

Toiliara, Madagascar has around 3600 hrs and a pop. of 100k: Toliara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's dry but I'm sceptical - looks too high, and I don't trust Wikipedia at all.

[ChesterNZ]

Originally Posted by RWood

It's dry but I'm sceptical - looks too high, and I don't trust Wikipedia at all.

There is also this source, but I don't think you'll find it any more credible: Tulear Climate Guide, Madagascar | World Climate Guide

However, it is well in line with other climates in Madagascar and Southeast Africa. Given the strong rain shadow effect and the influence of the Mascarene high it doesn't seem too far fetched.

[dhdh]

Oh my. What an absolutely fantastic climate. Another A+ to my list

[RWood]

Another source gives 3576, so I guess it's looking pretty good!!

[cetinje]

According to this source in Spanish at San Juan's annual rainfall is 95 mm year and hours of daily sunshine 8.8.

In San Juan airport 76 mm of annual precipitation and 9.2 hours of sunshine daily.

daylight hours are expressed as effective heliophany HEF

.: Datos climáticos de Argentina :: Anuales :.