{"id":29579,"date":"2026-01-06T10:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29579"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:31:31","slug":"these-are-the-sunniest-cities-in-the-contiguous-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/01\/these-are-the-sunniest-cities-in-the-contiguous-us\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the Sunniest Cities in the Contiguous US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you tired of cloudy conditions and the lack of sunshine? Do you have Seasonal Affective Disorder because it is so dark and gloomy all winter? While we get more sunshine here in the Southeast than my childhood home in western Michigan where the lake effect dominates the weather most of the winter, we still are not the sunniest part of the country. Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/adventure-travel\/news-analysis\/sunniest-cities-u-s\/\">list of the top 12 sunniest locations in the contiguous US<\/a> from <em>Outside<\/em> magazine. If you can&#8217;t move there, maybe a nice vacation to Arizona would brighten up your winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Gfp-florida-keys-key-west-red-sun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Gfp-florida-keys-key-west-red-sun.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Gfp-florida-keys-key-west-red-sun.jpg 320w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Gfp-florida-keys-key-west-red-sun-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Gfp-florida-keys-key-west-red-sun-206x138.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Yinan Chen, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you tired of cloudy conditions and the lack of sunshine? Do you have Seasonal Affective Disorder because it is so dark and gloomy all winter? While we get more sunshine here in the Southeast than my childhood home in western Michigan where the lake effect dominates the weather most of the winter, we still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29580,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29579\/revisions\/29580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}