Average Sunshine in West Virginia for August
Number of Sunny Days
In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a city in West Virginia is the total days this month when the sky is mostly clear. This includes the days when cloud covers up to 30% of the sky during daylight hours.
Partly Sunny Days have cloud covering from 40% to 70% of the sky during the daytime.
Total Days With Sun is a sum of the Sunny plus Partly Sunny days. The rest of the days are mainly overcast, with at least 80% cloud cover. All the numbers are annual averages, made from years of weather watching.
City | Sunny | Partly Sunny | Total Days With Sun |
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Beckley | 4 | 12 | 16 |
Charleston | 5 | 14 | 19 |
Elkins | 3 | 14 | 17 |
Huntington | 5 | 12 | 17 |
Amount of Sun
Here's another way to look at how much sunshine a city gets. The % Sun number measures the percentage of time between sunrise and sunset that sunshine reaches the ground. Again, this amount is a monthly average based on many years of weather observations.
City | % Sun |
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Elkins | 44 |
Reference
National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.