Sunshine Atlas

Sunshine destinations in Asia

1165 places, each with month-by-month sunshine data.

Tabuk is the sunniest place in Asia — about 4,052 hours of sunshine a year, at its best in February.

The sunniest places in Asia

All 1,158 Asia destinations with sunshine data, ranked by annual hours.

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Sunshine hours come from climate normals interpolated to each destination — treat near-identical values as ties. How the data works →

Every destination, by country

Sorted by annual sunshine within each country.

Afghanistan

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Bhutan

Brunei

Cambodia

China

Christmas Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Cyprus

Egypt

Georgia

Hong Kong SAR China

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Japan

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Lebanon

Macao SAR China

Malaysia

Maldives

Mongolia

Myanmar (Burma)

Nepal

North Korea

Oman

Pakistan

Philippines

Qatar

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Singapore

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Syria

Taiwan

Tajikistan

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Türkiye

Turkmenistan

United Arab Emirates

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Yemen