Travel tip: Pittsburgh is cloudiest U.S. city, but not world's worst

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Travel tip: Pittsburgh is cloudiest U.S. city, but not world's worst

Shirley McMarlin | Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:01 a.m.

Steven Adams | Tribune-Review

Pittsburgh is the cloudiest U.S. city, according to worldatlas.com. Here’s a view of the city under a cloudy sky on Oct. 26, 2019.

Here’s another Steel City superlative that you probably suspected: Pittsburgh is the cloudiest city in the United States. According to worldatlas.com, the ‘Burgh averages 77% cloud cover and sees the sun for about 2,021 hours annually.

So where to go for a dose of Old Sol? Here are the sunniest U.S. cities with more than 1 million population, according to currentresults.com: Phoenix, Las Vegas, Sacramento, Los Angeles and Miami.

Or bask in the glow of knowing things are worse elsewhere. Here are some international cities and their annual hours of sun: Tórshavn, Faroe Islands — 840; Lima, Peru — 1,230; Reykjavik, Iceland — 1,236; Edinburgh, Scotland — 1,427; and Taipei, Taiwan — 1,405.

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