FARGO — Cloudy weather, typical for this time of year, has dominated our weather recently. If you desire more sunshine. weather records indicate that Yuma, Arizona, is the sunniest city in the United States with about 90% of possible annual sunshine.
Most of the sunniest locations in the United States are in the Southwest. Redding, in interior northern California, is second with 88%. Phoenix, Tucson and Las Vegas are tied with 85%. El Paso gets 84%.
Fresno, California, and Reno, Nevada, continue the southwestern concentration with 79%. Flagstaff and Sacramento are tied at 78%. At 76%, Pueblo, Colorado, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, along with Key West, Florida, the single non-southwest city, round out the top 10 sunniest cities in the United States.
The cloudiest city in the United States is Cold Bay, Alaska, with an average of just 11 sunny days per year.