Days of Sunshine Per Year in Texas

Number of Sunny Days

In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a city in Texas 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.

Total Days With Sun is a sum of the Sunny plus Partly Sunny days. The rest of the days are mainly overcast, with at least 80% cloud cover. All the numbers are annual averages, made from years of weather watching.

Annual days of sunshine
City Sunny
Days
Partly Sunny
Days
Total Days
With Sun
Abilene 149 95 244
Amarillo 157 104 261
Austin City 115 114 229
Brownsville 96 131 227
Corpus Christi 102 121 223
Dallas-Fort Worth 135 97 232
Del Rio 121 106 227
El Paso 193 100 293
Houston 90 114 204
Lubbock 160 102 262
Midland-Odessa 165 96 261
Port Arthur 95 117 212
San Angelo 154 97 251
San Antonio 105 119 224
Victoria 86 118 204
Waco 130 98 228
Wichita Falls 151 93 244

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
Abilene 71
Amarillo 73
Austin City 60
Austin-Bergstrom Airport 60
Brownsville 60
Corpus Christi 60
Dallas-Fort Worth 61
El Paso 84
Galveston 62
Houston 59
Lubbock 72
Midland-Odessa 74
Port Arthur 58
San Antonio 60
Reference

National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.

Texas Sunshine
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