Brighton revealed because the UK’s sunniest metropolis – the place does your metropolis rank?

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One UK metropolis outshines all others when it comes to daylight: Brighton.

On the typical day between 1991 and 2020, the South Coast resort loved precisely 5 hours of sunshine.

The Impartial has analysed knowledge from the Met Workplace protecting three many years, which locations Brighton nicely forward of its rivals.

The three closest cities are additionally on the south coast of England: Plymouth (4h45m), Southampton (4h40m) and Exeter (4h30m).

Bristol (4h27m) takes fifth place, with Oxford solely a minute behind (4h26m).

Amongst English cities, Manchester performs poorly, with solely 3h44m – putting it twenty sixth within the high 30.

Swansea is the sunniest metropolis in Wales, and seventh-brightest within the UK at 4h24m; Cardiff, in tenth place, has 5 minutes much less sunshine.

London enjoys 4h23m of sunshine per day on common, that means that taking the one-hour practice from London to Brighton will increase the each day prospect by 37 minutes.

Northern Eire doesn’t fare brilliantly. Belfast is twenty fifth out of 30 with a mean day’s sunshine of 3h46m. The second metropolis, Derry, is last-but-one within the checklist, at 3h15m.

Of the 30 cities included within the survey, the very best positioned Scottish contender is Dundee – additionally the one place within the nation that exceeds 4 hours of sunshine on common every day (4h01m) – takes 18th place. Aberdeen (3h59m) is twentieth, whereas Glasgow and Stirling fill twenty seventh and twenty eighth locations respectively

The UK’s least sunny metropolis, Inverness, can be in Scotland. In contrast to nearly all over the place else within the UK, it averages lower than three hours of sunshine per day (2h53m).

A Highland Council spokesperson mentioned: “The Moray Firth coast, with Inverness situated on the western finish, is sometimes called being the ‘Sunshine Coast’ and advantages from comparatively hotter climate and decrease rainfall than many different locations within the UK. This makes an amazing place to dwell, work and go to.”

Solar-starved Invernesians can fly in 100 minutes to the UK’s sunniest airport, Gatwick, and take the half-hour practice journey to Brighton.

Councillor Bella Sankey, chief of Brighton & Hove Metropolis Council, mentioned: “I’ve all the time felt that the solar shines extra in Brighton and Hove and so it’s nice to know that’s true! There actually is nowhere fairly like Brighton and Hove – no day is similar and there may be a lot to do and see.”

Jane Austen ascribed to a personality in Pleasure and Prejudice: “A go to to Brighton comprised each chance of earthly happiness.”

The Met Workplace stresses that common figures don’t suggest the climate will probably be constant 12 months after 12 months. A spokesperson mentioned: “The UK’s climate patterns are sometimes dictated by the place of the jet stream, a ribbon of air excessive up within the environment.

“Delicate distinction in its place can affect the dominant climate for the UK, bringing sunshine for some or cloud and rain for others.”

30 key UK cities – common each day sunshine 1991–2020

All figures extracted from knowledge supplied by the Met Workplace.