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Sorry Wellington, you are wrong – we are sunniest
Thursday, October 04, 2012
NOT satisfied with being the windy city, Wellington is also trying to claim the sunshine stakes — with a claim in the Dominion Post yesterday that Wellington was the sunniest city in New Zealand last month.

The story says the capital had 189 sunshine hours during September, up from the September average of 163 hours.

It goes on to say Christchurch was next with 184 hours of sunshine recorded.

The paper says the claim is based on Niwa’s September climate summary — but the same figures show Gisborne had far more sunshine than Wellington.

Last month provided Gisborne with 241 hours of sunshine — well above the Wellington total and, in fact, a new record for Gisborne.

Records kept since 1937 show the previous all-time sunshine total for Gisborne in September had been 232 hours in 1972.

The corrected data from Niwa shows last month had almost a day’s extra sun than that — for a new September record of 241 hours.

Even the preliminary total of 238 hours gave Gisborne five days more sunshine than Wellington, easily dismissing its claim to be the sunniest city in New Zealand for September.

Stick to the wind, Wellington.
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