Days of Sunshine Per Year in Colorado
Number of Sunny Days
In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a city in Colorado is the total days in a year 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 | Partly Sunny | Total Days With Sun |
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Alamosa | 148 | 137 | 285 |
Colorado Springs | 127 | 120 | 247 |
Denver | 115 | 130 | 245 |
Grand Junction | 136 | 106 | 242 |
Pueblo | 139 | 119 | 258 |
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 yearly averages based on many years of weather observations.
City | % Sun |
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Denver | 69 |
Grand Junction | 71 |
Pueblo | 76 |
Reference
National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.