https://thesunshinemap.com/ New tools, studies and dataset editions from Sunshine Map — where the world is sunny, month by month. en https://thesunshinemap.com/data/https://thesunshinemap.com/data/Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTEvery destination and destination-month now carries a midday UV index on the WHO scale, from the same NASA POWER climatology as the rest of the atlas. The edition also disambiguates 22 destinations that shared a name with somewhere else — Portland (Maine) from Portland, Oregon; Victoria (Seychelles) from Victoria, BC. Climate values are unchanged; no IATA code or page URL moved. https://thesunshinemap.com/compare/https://thesunshinemap.com/compare/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTCompare pages for the destinations people weigh against each other — Sunshine Score, daytime high, rain and sea temperature month by month, side by side, plus annual sunshine hours, peak midday UV and a season-by-season verdict on which one wins and where it is too close to call. https://thesunshinemap.com/lifetime-sunshine/https://thesunshinemap.com/lifetime-sunshine/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTA lifetime sunshine calculator: add the places you've lived and the years, get your total lived sunshine hours and a shareable card — from NASA POWER climate normals for 3,800+ destinations. https://thesunshinemap.com/data/https://thesunshinemap.com/data/Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTEvery destination's sunshine, temperature and rainfall now derive from NASA POWER satellite-era climatology (2001–2020). Full CSV/JSON download, CC BY 4.0, versioned DOI. https://thesunshinemap.com/best-time-to-visit/https://thesunshinemap.com/best-time-to-visit/Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTMonth-by-month verdicts for 64 countries and 5 island regions: the best window, the shoulder season, the hottest and wettest months, and the swim season. https://thesunshinemap.com/what-crawls-a-new-website/https://thesunshinemap.com/what-crawls-a-new-website/Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTLaunch-week crawler logs: the AI corpus bots out-read Google Search, ChatGPT was citing the site within 48 hours, and IndexNow moved almost nothing. https://thesunshinemap.com/studies/sunniest-cities/https://thesunshinemap.com/studies/sunniest-cities/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTAnnual sunshine hours for the world's major cities, from satellite-era climate normals — full table free to download. https://thesunshinemap.com/studies/sunniest-cities-europe/https://thesunshinemap.com/studies/sunniest-cities-europe/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTThe 2026 sunshine study: Europe's major cities ranked by measured annual sunshine hours.