Amount of Sunshine Connecticut Gets Each Month

Number of Sunny Days

In these tables, the average numbers of Sunny Days for places in Connecticut are the total days each month or 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 averages, made from years of weather watching

Days with clear skies in Bridgeport, Connecticut

	Sunny	Partly Sunny	Total Days With Sun
January	8	8	16
February	8	7	15
March	8	9	17
April	7	9	16
May	7	10	17
June	8	10	18
July	7	12	19
August	9	11	20
September	10	9	19
October	11	8	19
November	8	8	16
December	8	8	16
Annual	99	107	206

Days with clear skies in Hartford, Connecticut

	Sunny	Partly Sunny	Total Days With Sun
January	8	8	16
February	7	8	15
March	7	8	15
April	6	9	15
May	6	10	16
June	6	10	16
July	6	12	18
August	7	11	18
September	8	9	17
October	9	9	18
November	6	8	14
December	7	7	14
Annual	82	108	190

Amount of Sun

Here's another way to look at how much sunshine Hartford, Connecticut normally gets. The % Sun numbers measure the percentage of time between sunrise and sunset that sunshine reaches the ground. Again, these amounts are averages based on decades of weather observations.

The Total Hours figures are the average number of sunny hours that Hartford normally has each month or in a year. These totals are the averages calculated for 1961 to 1990.

Amount of sunshine in Hartford, Connecticut

	% Sun	Total Hours
January	53	170
February	56	176
March	57	214
April	55	228
May	57	259
June	60	273
July	62	293
August	62	270
September	59	224
October	57	199
November	45	139
December	47	140
Annual	56	2585