Where to find good weather for sure in France? If you lack light or your tan is a little pale, here are the cities with the most hours and days of sunshine in the year.
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Metropolitan France may well be a territory of barely 643,800 km2the annual number of hours of sunshine is very variable depending on the latitude, the relief and the nature of the winds. An inhabitant of Marseille thus takes advantage of 7 h 50 of Sun daily, whereas in Saint-Brieuc, he will have to content himself with 4 h 17 Sun per day. In general, the further south you go, the more the sun makes large appearances.
Marseille is thus the most spoiled city, with an average of 2,858 sun hours and 170 sunny days per year, ahead of Toulon (2,839 hours), Ajaccio (2,756 hours) and Nice (2,724 hours). The city benefits in particular from the Azores anticyclone, which is rising, and from the mistral particularly effective in removing clouds. The ranking still reveals some surprises, with La Rochelle arriving far ahead of Biarritz where the clouds coming from the Atlantic tend to accumulate over the Pyrenees.
More and more hours of sunshine
Sunshine is taken into account when the sky is completely clear and produces radiation strong enough to cause a cast shadow. Measured by a heliograph at photovoltaic cellsit must be greater than or equal to 120 watts per square meter.
For several years, there has been a trend towards an increase in the number of hours of sunshine. In 2017, Marseille broke the historic record for France with 3,111 hours of sunshine recorded over the year, ahead of Nice (3,047 hours) and Sari-Solenzara, in Corsica (3,036 hours). But it is impossible to know whether this trend will follow the duration or not.
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