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- In much of Alabama, the climate is humid subtropical, with mild, rainy winters, during which short cold spells can occur, and hot, muggy summers, with many hours of sunshine but also with rains and thunderstorms.
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Average Annual Sunshine by State. The tables below pull together numbers on the amount of sunshine that each US state usually has in a year. There's information by state on the annual averages for percent, hours and days of sun.
The sunniest U.S. states are: Arizona (5,755 kJ/m^2), New Mexico (5,642 kJ/m^2), Nevada (5,296kJ/m^2), Texas (5,137 kJ/m^2), California (5,050 kJ/m^2), Colorado (4,960 kJ/m^2), Oklahoma (4,912 kJ/m^2), Kansas (4,890 kJ/m^2), Utah (4,887 kJ/m^2), and Florida (4,859 kJ/m^2). The top three sunniest states in the U.S. have large desert landscapes ...
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- Arizona. - Average annual sunlight: 5,755 kJ/m² - Percent of sunlight as compared to top state: 100% - Percent change in sunlight since 1992: +12.23%
- New Mexico. - Average annual sunlight: 5,642 kJ/m² - Percent of sunlight as compared to top state: 98.04% - Percent change in sunlight since 1992: +14.54%
- Nevada. - Average annual sunlight: 5,296 kJ/m² - Percent of sunlight as compared to top state: 92.02% - Percent change in sunlight since 1992: +13.28%
- Texas. - Average annual sunlight: 5,137 kJ/m² - Percent of sunlight as compared to top state: 89.26% - Percent change in sunlight since 1992: +10.81%
Summers in Alabama are among the hottest in the United States, with high temperatures averaging over 90 °F (32 °C) throughout the summer in many parts of the state. In the extreme south, summer's heat is tempered slightly by winds from the Gulf of Mexico which often blow inland by up to 10–15 miles.
On average, there are 213 sunny days per year in Alabama. The US average is 205 sunny days. Alabama gets some kind of precipitation, on average, 107 days per year.
In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a city in Alabama is the total days in a year when the sky is mostly clear. This includes the days when cloud covers up to 30% of the sky during daylight hours.