Average Sunshine in British Columbia for December

The tables below give December averages for the number of sunny days and hours of sunshine at cities and towns in British Columbia.

The places are grouped into a separate table for each region of the province: Southwest Mainland, Vancouver Island, Central BC, Southeast BC and Northern BC.

Each place has three measures of sunshine. The number for % Sun is the usual percentage of daylight hours with bright sunshine.

Hours gives the total hours of bright sunshine that's normal during a year. Days statistics are for the typical number of days annually with any amount of measurable sunshine. All the data are averages for the years 1981 to 2010.

Southwest BC Mainland

Total December sunshine
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
25	Abbotsford	65	17
14	Powell River	35	14
22	Vancouver - Richmond	56	16
12	Whistler	30	14

Vancouver Island

Average amount of sun in December
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
16	Courtenay - Comox	41	14
20	Nanaimo	51	16
9	Port Alberni	22	10
19	Port Hardy	46	18
22	Tofino	57	17
23	Victoria - Sidney	59	19

Central British Columbia

Average December sun
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
3	Bella Coola	8	9
19	Kamloops	47	18
14	Kelowna	35	16
13	Penticton	34	15
16	Vernon	41	17
19	Williams Lake	46	16

Southeast BC

Number of sunny hours and days in December on average
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
13	Castlegar	33	14
20	Cranbrook	52	17
5	Golden	13	8
10	Revelstoke	25	10

Northern British Columbia

Average total sunshine in December
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
24	Fort Nelson	48	17
24	Fort St John	52	18
19	Prince George	44	16
14	Prince Rupert	32	13
19	Sandspit	45	19
12	Smithers	26	13