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Yuma, Arizona, is the sunniest city on record
It averages roughly 4,000 hours of sunshine a year
Yuma sits in the Sonoran Desert, where a subtropical high keeps skies clear for most of the year. Measurements put its annual sunshine above 4,000 hours out of a possible 4,380. It is also one of the driest cities in North America, receiving only a few centimetres of rain annually.
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Yuma, Arizona, is the sunniest city on record: the short answers
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- It averages roughly 4,000 hours of sunshine a year. The figure is taken from NOAA, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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