Sunshine by destination in January
Notable, well-known destinations ranked by sunshine in January, from real monthly climate normals — the sunniest and the cloudiest. Tap any place for its full January weather breakdown.
Sunniest in January
- 1San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina13.0 h/day
- 2Cape Town, South Africa12.9 h/day
- 3Auckland, New Zealand11.7 h/day
- 4Buenos Aires, Argentina11.6 h/day
- 5Queenstown, New Zealand11.4 h/day
- 6Nairobi, Kenya11.0 h/day
- 7Puerto Ayora, Ecuador10.9 h/day
- 8Zanzibar, Tanzania10.8 h/day
- 9Cartagena, Colombia10.6 h/day
- 10Lima, Peru10.5 h/day
- 11Sydney, Australia10.4 h/day
- 12Philipsburg, Sint Maarten10.4 h/day
- 13Bangkok, Thailand10.3 h/day
- 14San Juan, Puerto Rico10.3 h/day
- 15Mumbai, India10.2 h/day
Cloudiest in January
- 1Reykjavík, Iceland1.5 h/day
- 2Oslo, Norway2.4 h/day
- 3Amsterdam, Netherlands3.3 h/day
- 4Whistler, Canada3.5 h/day
- 5Vancouver, Canada3.5 h/day
- 6Paris, France3.5 h/day
- 7London, United Kingdom3.8 h/day
- 8Istanbul, Turkey5.8 h/day
- 9Shanghai, China5.8 h/day
- 10New York, United States6.2 h/day
- 11Rome, Italy6.7 h/day
- 12San Francisco, United States7.0 h/day
- 13Bukhara, Uzbekistan7.1 h/day
- 14Almaty, Kazakhstan7.1 h/day
- 15Tbilisi, Georgia7.3 h/day