Quarterly change of sun hours in the UK 2013-2018

This statistic shows the quarterly deviation from the 10-year mean in average daily sun hours in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2018. The largest change over the given time period was in the second quarter of 2016, when there were 0.9 less hours of daily sunshine than usual. There were 0.9 more hours of daily sunshine in the third quarter of 2018.

Quarterly deviations from 10-year mean of average daily sun hours in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2018 (in hours per day)

Characteristic	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
2018*	-0.1	0.3	0.9	0.3
2017	-0.2	-0.2	-0.5	-0.1
2016	0	-0.9	0.2	0.1
2015	0.4	0.3	0	-0.7
2014	0.4	-0.4	0.5	0
2013	-0.7	-0.4	0.7	-0.1

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Release date

January 2019

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2001 to 2018

Special properties

weighted by location of UK solar PV resources

Supplementary notes

* Provisional data for the year 2018
This statistic using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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