Average Sunshine for US Cities in June

The tables below pull together figures on the amount of sunshine each of the largest cities in the United States usually has in June.

The % Sun number measures the percentage of time between sunrise and sunset that sunshine reaches the ground. Total Hours is the average number of sunny hours the city normally has this month. Clear Days is the average number of days this month when cloud covers at most 30 percent of the sky during daylight hours.

Hours of sunshine are the means calculated for 1961 to 1990. The other data are averages taken from years of weather watching.

Average sunshine in June
% Sun City Total Hours Clear Days
67 Atlanta, Georgia 285 8
69 Austin, Texas 286 8
62 Baltimore, Maryland 277 8
65 Birmingham, Alabama 281 7
63 Boston, Massachusetts 287 7
65 Buffalo, New York 287 6
67 Charlotte, North Carolina 289 7
67 Chicago, Illinois 311 7
61 Cincinnati, Ohio 276 7
65 Cleveland, Ohio 295 7
60 Columbus, Ohio 258 6
67 Dallas, Texas 298 11
70 Denver, Colorado 315 10
66 Detroit, Michigan 302 8
95 Fresno, California 23
62 Grand Rapids, Michigan 7
60 Hartford, Connecticut 273 6
74 Honolulu, Hawaii 6
68 Houston, Texas 281 7
% Sun City Total Hours Clear Days
65 Indianapolis, Indiana 287 7
66 Jacksonville, Florida 284 5
66 Kansas City, Missouri 306 10
93 Las Vegas, Nevada 402 22
65 Los Angeles, California 10
66 Louisville, Kentucky 289 8
74 Memphis, Tennessee 321 10
68 Miami, Florida 289 3
65 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 305 8
66 Minneapolis, Minnesota 322 7
65 Nashville, Tennessee 278 8
63 New Orleans, Louisiana 274 8
64 New York, New York 257 8
75 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 326 10
62 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 271 7
94 Phoenix, Arizona 408 23
55 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 242 5
% Sun City Total Hours Clear Days
56 Portland, Oregon 290 6
61 Providence, Rhode Island 274 7
60 Raleigh, North Carolina 268 8
70 Richmond, Virginia 306 7
66 Rochester, New York 298 7
94 Sacramento, California 420 22
80 Salt Lake City, Utah 361 14
67 San Antonio, Texas 276 7
58 San Diego, California 242 9
73 San Francisco, California 16
56 Seattle, Washington 268 5
66 St. Louis, Missouri 292 7
67 Tampa, Florida 278 6
93 Tucson, Arizona 21
66 Tulsa, Oklahoma 9
67 Virginia Beach, Virginia 280 7
64 Washington, DC 283 7
Reference

National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.

World Data Center for Meteorology. Climate of the World.

US City Sunshine
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