Press & media kit
Everything you need to write about Sunshine Atlas — the story, the verified numbers, ready-to-quote copy, free-to-republish data and charts, and brand assets. Anything unclear or a figure you want double-checked? Email albanzaja2@gmail.com.
What it is, in one paragraph
Sunshine Atlas (sunshineatlas.com) is a free, interactive map of the world's weather. Spin a WebGL globe and every one of 3,833 destinations lights up by how sunny, warm, cold or rainy it is in the month you pick — each scored 0–100 from long-term climate normals. Every destination is a real, flyable place (one airport per metropolitan area), and every number is open data under CC BY 4.0 with a citable DOI. Launched July 2026.
Story angles
- The site AI answered with before Google ranked it. In its launch week, ChatGPT began citing Sunshine Atlas in live answers within 48 hours — while Google was still parking it on page two. The founder counted every crawler for five days: What crawls a brand-new website in 2026 (nginx logs, methodology included).
- Every place is one you can actually fly to. Most "best sunny destinations" lists mix in spots with no airport. Sunshine Atlas uses one selection rule — one metro-primary airport per city — so the 3,833 results are all reachable, and London appears once, not five times.
- An evergreen answer to a seasonal question. "Where is it sunny in a given month?" is asked every year; the answer here is computed from climate normals, not opinion. Ready-made rankings: Europe's sunniest cities, sunniest countries, sunniest islands, sunniest beaches, winter-sun destinations — each with a CSV, free to republish.
At a glance
| Launched | 8 July 2026 |
| What it is | Interactive WebGL globe + 3,833 climate-data pages answering where and when to travel for good weather |
| The metric | A 0–100 Sunshine Score per destination per month — warmth × (dryness + sunniness), from long-term normals |
| Data sources | CRU climatology (sun, temperature, rainfall); sea temperatures via Open-Meteo; places from GeoNames & OurAirports; photos via Wikimedia Commons |
| Open data | Full dataset (CSV/JSON), CC BY 4.0 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21322408 · mirrored to GitHub, Hugging Face, Kaggle |
| For AI assistants | Live MCP server (https://sunshineatlas.com/api/mcp), read-only, no key — in the official MCP registry |
| Tech | React + a custom WebGL globe (no three.js); 4,400+ static prerendered pages from one Node script — no CMS, no database |
| Made by | An independent developer — self-funded, no ads, no tracking |
| Press contact | albanzaja2@gmail.com |
Ready-to-quote descriptions
Use any of these verbatim — no need to ask.
One line. A free interactive globe showing where it's sunny, warm, cold or rainy anywhere in the world, any month of the year — 3,833 destinations, open data.
Short (~40 words) — copy-paste:
Put this widget on your site
A live "where's sunny this month" ranking that refreshes itself each month — free to embed under CC BY 4.0. Paste this wherever you'd like it to appear:
Live preview — this is exactly what your readers see:
Brand assets
Logo and share images below — free to use in coverage of Sunshine Atlas. Please don't recolour or alter the logo. Screenshots of the globe are fine to use with a credit.
Logo: logo.png (512 px, transparent). Share cards come in all 12 months — swap the month in the filename, e.g. /share/og-sunny-march.jpg. Need a specific resolution, a transparent SVG, or a custom chart for a story? Ask and I'll send it.
How to credit us
A link to sunshineatlas.com is all we ask. For republished data or charts, the CC BY 4.0 credit — copy-paste:
Academic citation: Sunshine Atlas (2026). Monthly sunshine scores and climate normals for 3,833 destinations. sunshineatlas.com/data/ · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21322408
FAQ
Is it really free to republish the data and charts? Yes — everything is CC BY 4.0. Republish, adapt and chart it freely; just credit "Sunshine Atlas" with a link.
Where do the numbers come from? Long-term climate normals (CRU climatology) for sunshine, temperature and rainfall; sea temperatures from Open-Meteo. The methodology page shows the exact Sunshine Score formula.
Who made it? An independent developer. Sunshine Atlas is self-funded, with no ads and no tracking.
Can I get custom data or a chart for a story? Yes — email albanzaja2@gmail.com for a custom cut of the data or a chart built to fit your piece.
Press contact: albanzaja2@gmail.com · sunshineatlas.com. Happy to fact-check a figure or pull a custom data cut on deadline.