Days of Sunshine Per Year in West Virginia
Number of Sunny Days
In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a city in West Virginia 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.
City | Sunny | Partly Sunny | Total Days With Sun |
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Beckley | 60 | 95 | 155 |
Charleston | 65 | 111 | 176 |
Elkins | 48 | 103 | 151 |
Huntington | 63 | 99 | 162 |
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, this amount is a monthly average based on many years of weather observations.
City | % Sun |
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Elkins | 40 |
Reference
National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.