It’d interesting to see this overlapped with depression/suicide rates to see if there is a strong correlation.
This map always get posed and it’s wrong. Almeria, Spain’s south earern coast, enjoys over 3000 hours of sunshine.
For reference, there are ~8 766 hours per year, so dark blue would be about 13,7% of year, light blue would be 13,7%-18,3%, teal would be 18,3%-20,5%, light yellow would be 20,5%-22,8%, orangish colour would be 22,8%-28,5%, and the dark orange colour would be more than 28,5%
Interesting how the narrow edges of the Baltic Sea see more sunshine than the interior.
I can’t understand how Zagreb and Helsinki have the same amount of sunshine.
What is exactly categorized as sunshine?
Come from dark and cloudy Lithuania to enjoy the sun in Estonia!
How Denmark has less hours than Oslo?
As a swiss (blue part) I will plan my vacations in finland from now on.
Yes keep posting maps where we beat our little brothers
I like how France Is a Real rainbow. You really dont need to go abroad to have a complété change of scenery
That sunny spot in the Black Forest/Schwarzwald, can confirm.
i live in green/yellow bit of england and im scared to go further north
This might be false. I expected the mountainous northwestern Greece have less sunshine than some lowlands or areas more east. Plus, Greek west is more rainy than east due to Pindus mountains. Also, the north (east) of Turkey should be more similar to the UK. The area surrounding the Black Sea has oceanic climate (or at least used to). Trabzon has less sunshine hours than London for example.
Germany seems to have an even balance and variety of sun exposure, not too much, not too little. Although I’m aware their winters are very cold.
Ukraine is the most surprising for me. Didn‘t expect the majority of Ukrainians to have the same amount of sunshine as the majority of Italians.
Fun fact, The Netherlands had 2231 (averaged over the entire country) last year. This was a new record. We had sunny and dry run from spring to autumn (according to the [knmi.nl](https://knmi.nl)). I’m jealous of the Italians that they have this every year 🙂
According to the knmi the average is 1774 for the entire country.
This map is using slightly obsoleted data, looks like 1981-2010 averages. More recent years were sunnier.
While Romania did not gave autonomy to Szekely’s, they got some solar autonomy instead.
Can we get a June vs December map?
Yes, Southern Coast in Finland is about the same than Southern France.
Maybe that’s why I’m feeling low… I come from a >2500 zone, but I live in a 1200-1600
No source = bullshit
Western Bohemia is almost 90% cloudy in winter, but completely sunny in summer at least.
Basques moving to northeast Sweden for the sunshine.
Iceland, are you okay?
A clear indicator of how sunshine is vital for not being a stellar dumbass.
The sense of superiority I get from living in the yellow bit of the UK is real
Nice
I didn’t know it is was that sunny here in Dalmatia, I mean at least in comparison to rest of Europe
God loved DDR more than Czechoslovakia
Can’t have sun in Upper Silesia
As a Slovene I have strong doubts in the accuracy of this map looking at the daily cloud cover outside.
There’s non-stop sun for 1/3 of the year, but there’s also no sun for 1/3 of the year, it balances out
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It’d interesting to see this overlapped with depression/suicide rates to see if there is a strong correlation.
This map always get posed and it’s wrong. Almeria, Spain’s south earern coast, enjoys over 3000 hours of sunshine.
For reference, there are ~8 766 hours per year, so dark blue would be about 13,7% of year, light blue would be 13,7%-18,3%, teal would be 18,3%-20,5%, light yellow would be 20,5%-22,8%, orangish colour would be 22,8%-28,5%, and the dark orange colour would be more than 28,5%
Interesting how the narrow edges of the Baltic Sea see more sunshine than the interior.
I can’t understand how Zagreb and Helsinki have the same amount of sunshine.
What is exactly categorized as sunshine?
Come from dark and cloudy Lithuania to enjoy the sun in Estonia!
How Denmark has less hours than Oslo?
As a swiss (blue part) I will plan my vacations in finland from now on.
Yes keep posting maps where we beat our little brothers
I like how France Is a Real rainbow. You really dont need to go abroad to have a complété change of scenery
That sunny spot in the Black Forest/Schwarzwald, can confirm.
i live in green/yellow bit of england and im scared to go further north
This might be false. I expected the mountainous northwestern Greece have less sunshine than some lowlands or areas more east. Plus, Greek west is more rainy than east due to Pindus mountains. Also, the north (east) of Turkey should be more similar to the UK. The area surrounding the Black Sea has oceanic climate (or at least used to). Trabzon has less sunshine hours than London for example.
Germany seems to have an even balance and variety of sun exposure, not too much, not too little. Although I’m aware their winters are very cold.
Ukraine is the most surprising for me. Didn‘t expect the majority of Ukrainians to have the same amount of sunshine as the majority of Italians.
Fun fact, The Netherlands had 2231 (averaged over the entire country) last year. This was a new record. We had sunny and dry run from spring to autumn (according to the [knmi.nl](https://knmi.nl)). I’m jealous of the Italians that they have this every year 🙂
According to the knmi the average is 1774 for the entire country.
This map is using slightly obsoleted data, looks like 1981-2010 averages. More recent years were sunnier.
While Romania did not gave autonomy to Szekely’s, they got some solar autonomy instead.
Can we get a June vs December map?
Yes, Southern Coast in Finland is about the same than Southern France.
Maybe that’s why I’m feeling low… I come from a >2500 zone, but I live in a 1200-1600
No source = bullshit
Western Bohemia is almost 90% cloudy in winter, but completely sunny in summer at least.
Basques moving to northeast Sweden for the sunshine.
Iceland, are you okay?
A clear indicator of how sunshine is vital for not being a stellar dumbass.
The sense of superiority I get from living in the yellow bit of the UK is real
Nice
I didn’t know it is was that sunny here in Dalmatia, I mean at least in comparison to rest of Europe
God loved DDR more than Czechoslovakia
Can’t have sun in Upper Silesia
As a Slovene I have strong doubts in the accuracy of this map looking at the daily cloud cover outside.
There’s non-stop sun for 1/3 of the year, but there’s also no sun for 1/3 of the year, it balances out
Oh, it genuinely is quite miserable in the UK