Average Sunshine in British Columbia for January

The tables below give January 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 January sunshine
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
25	Abbotsford	68	18
16	Powell River	43	16
22	Vancouver - Richmond	60	18
15	Whistler	40	15

Vancouver Island

Average amount of sun in January
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
22	Courtenay - Comox	58	18
21	Nanaimo	57	18
9	Port Alberni	24	11
19	Port Hardy	51	18
22	Tofino	59	17
26	Victoria - Sidney	71	20

Central British Columbia

Average January sun
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
7	Bella Coola	17	12
21	Kamloops	55	19
15	Kelowna	39	16
13	Penticton	35	15
17	Vernon	46	16
23	Williams Lake	59	19

Southeast BC

Number of sunny hours and days in January on average
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
14	Castlegar	39	15
24	Cranbrook	64	20
10	Golden	25	11
11	Revelstoke	30	11

Northern British Columbia

Average total sunshine in January
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
29	Fort Nelson	64	20
31	Fort St John	74	21
20	Prince George	49	17
16	Prince Rupert	40	15
17	Sandspit	42	18
17	Smithers	43	17