Average Amount of Cloud a Year at Canada's Cities

Pulled together here is information on how cloudy Canadian cities normally are during the year.

The tables below give typical annual totals for the hours of cloudy skies at major cities across the country. The hours only count heavy overcast, when cloud covers anywhere from 80 to 100 percent of the sky.

There are also data on the usual number of days a year that lack sun. These are days with no measurable bright sunshine.

All the numbers are averages of weather statistics collected from 1981 to 2010.

Average amount of cloud annually
City Hours of Cloud Days With No Sun
Abbotsford, British Columbia 5336 80
Calgary, Alberta 4371 32
Edmonton, Alberta 4479 40
Guelph, Ontario 66
Halifax, Nova Scotia 5140 75
Hamilton, Ontario 4812 64
Kelowna, British Columbia 61
Kingston, Ontario 4580 69
London, Ontario 4866 79
City Hours of Cloud Days With No Sun
Moncton, New Brunswick 4815 72
Montréal, Quebec 4886 60
Ottawa, Ontario 4708 65
Peterborough, Ontario 69
Québec City, Quebec 4944 75
Regina, Saskatchewan 4296 43
Saguenay, Quebec 5304
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 4320 46
Sherbrooke, Quebec 5037 69
City Hours of Cloud Days With No Sun
St. Catharines - Niagara, Ontario 64
Saint John, New Brunswick 4909 82
St. John's, Newfoundland 6046 93
Sudbury, Ontario 4795 72
Thunder Bay, Ontario 4609 60
Toronto, Ontario 4826 57
Vancouver, British Columbia 5132 76
Victoria, British Columbia 4908 57
Windsor, Ontario 4819
Winnipeg, Manitoba 4276 49
Reference

Environment Canada. Meteorological Service of Canada. Canadian Climate Normals. 1981-2010 Climate Normals & Averages.

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