Days of Sunshine Per Year in Kansas

Number of Sunny Days

In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a city in Kansas is the total days in a year when the sky is mostly clear. This includes the days when cloud covers up to 30% of the sky during daylight hours.

Partly Sunny Days have cloud covering from 40% to 70% of the sky during the daytime. The rest of the days are mainly overcast, with at least 80% cloud cover.

Total Days With Sun is a sum of the Sunny plus Partly Sunny days. All the numbers are annual averages, made from years of weather watching.

Annual days of sunshine
City Sunny Partly Sunny Total Days
With Sun
Concordia 131 95 226
Dodge City 137 104 241
Goodland 143 117 260
Kansas City 120 96 216
Topeka 114 97 211
Wichita 128 97 225

Amount of Sun

Here's another way to look at how much sunshine a city gets. The % Sun number measures the percentage of time between sunrise and sunset that sunshine reaches the ground. Again, these amounts are yearly averages based on many years of weather observations.

Percent sunshine yearly
City % Sun
Concordia 67
Dodge City 70
Kansas City60
Topeka 61
Wichita 65
Reference

National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.

Kansas Sunshine
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