Average Sunshine in California for July
Number of Sunny Days
In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a city in California is the total days this month 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 Days |
Partly Sunny Days |
Total Days With Sun |
---|---|---|---|
Bakersfield | 26 | 3 | 29 |
Bishop | 22 | 7 | 29 |
Blue Canyon | 26 | 4 | 30 |
Eureka | 6 | 11 | 17 |
Fresno | 27 | 3 | 30 |
Long Beach | 18 | 11 | 29 |
Los Angeles Airport | 13 | 13 | 26 |
Los Angeles Downtown | 21 | 9 | 30 |
Mount Shasta | 25 | 5 | 30 |
Redding | 25 | 4 | 29 |
Sacramento | 27 | 3 | 30 |
San Diego | 13 | 13 | 26 |
San Francisco Airport | 21 | 8 | 29 |
Santa Maria | 17 | 12 | 29 |
Stockton | 27 | 3 | 30 |
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, these amounts are monthly averages based on many years of weather observations.
City | % Sun |
---|---|
Eureka | 55 |
Fresno | 97 |
Los Angeles Downtown | 82 |
Redding | 97 |
Sacramento | 97 |
San Diego | 68 |
San Francisco Downtown | 66 |
Reference
National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.