Amount of Sunshine Vermont Gets Each Month

Number of Sunny Days

In these tables, the average numbers of Sunny Days for Burlington, Vermont 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 Burlington, Vermont
  Sunny Partly Sunny Total Days With Sun
January 5 6 11
February 4 7 11
March 6 7 13
April 5 8 13
May 5 9 14
June 5 11 16
July 5 13 18
August 6 12 18
September 6 10 16
October 6 8 14
November 3 5 8
December 3 6 9
Annual 58 101 159

Amount of Sun

Here's another way to look at how much sunshine Vermont 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 Burlington has each month or in a year, taken from data collected for 1961 to 1990.

Amount of sunshine in Burlington, Vermont
  % Sun Total Hours
January 41 127
February 48 147
March 51 191
April 49 206
May 56 251
June 59 270
July 64 302
August 60 258
September 54 201
October 47 159
November 31 91
December 33 92
Annual 49 2295
References

National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.

World Data Center for Meteorology. Climate of the World.

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