Amount of Sunshine New Jersey Gets Each Month

Number of Sunny Days

In these tables, the average numbers of Sunny Days for places in New Jersey are the total days each month or 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 averages, made from years of weather watching

Days with clear skies in Atlantic City, New Jersey

	Sunny	Partly Sunny	Total Days With Sun
January	8	8	16
February	8	7	15
March	8	8	16
April	7	9	16
May	6	11	17
June	7	12	19
July	7	12	19
August	8	11	19
September	10	8	18
October	11	9	20
November	8	9	17
December	8	8	16
Annual	94	111	205

Days with clear skies in Newark, New Jersey

	Sunny	Partly Sunny	Total Days With Sun
January	8	8	16
February	7	8	15
March	8	8	16
April	7	9	16
May	6	11	17
June	7	11	18
July	7	12	19
August	8	12	20
September	10	9	19
October	11	8	19
November	8	8	16
December	8	8	16
Annual	93	112	205

Amount of Sun

Here's another way to look at how much sunshine New Jersey normally gets. The % Sun numbers measure the percentage of time between sunrise and sunset that sunshine reaches the ground. Again, these amounts are averages based on decades of weather observations.

The Total Hours figures are the average number of sunny hours that Atlantic City has each month or in a year, taken from data collected for 1961 to 1990.

Amount of sunshine in Atlantic City, New Jersey

	% Sun	Total Hours
January	50	151
February	53	158
March	55	205
April	56	219
May	56	244
June	60	266
July	61	276
August	65	271
September	61	228
October	59	201
November	51	147
December	47	134
Annual	56	2499