Average Sunshine in Texas for January

Number of Sunny Days

In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a city in Texas is the total days this month 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.

Days of sunshine in January
City Sunny
Days
Partly Sunny
Days
Total Days
With Sun
Abilene 11 6 17
Amarillo 13 7 20
Austin City 9 6 15
Brownsville 6 7 13
Corpus Christi 7 7 14
Dallas-Fort Worth 10 6 16
Del Rio 10 7 17
El Paso 14 7 21
Houston 7 5 12
Lubbock 12 6 18
Midland-Odessa 12 6 18
Port Arthur 7 6 13
San Angelo 12 6 18
San Antonio 9 6 15
Victoria 7 6 13
Waco 9 6 15
Wichita Falls 11 6 17

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 monthly averages based on many years of weather observations.

Percent sunshine for January
City % Sun
Abilene 62
Amarillo 69
Austin City 49
Austin-Bergstrom Airport 49
Brownsville 41
Corpus Christi 44
Dallas-Fort Worth 52
El Paso 78
Galveston 48
Houston 45
Lubbock 65
Midland-Odessa 66
Port Arthur 42
San Antonio 47
Reference

National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.

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