<p>“How depressing, though, not to have a real fall or winter! Sunshine all year round = booring. That can wait til retirement.”</p>
<p>Sounds like what I hear up here in New England . . but not so much December through March :-)</p>
<p>Nice thing about CA is that if you want those seasons you can always drive to them, enjoy them, then come back home :-)</p>
<p>Kei</p>
<p>Houston is less sunny than NY and Conn? Just warmer and overcast?</p>
<p>60 days difference between Wake and California. I need to switch coasts.</p>
<p>*How depressing, though, not to have a real fall or winter! Sunshine all year round = booring. That can wait til retirement. *</p>
<p>Hey, it even snows in Santa Barbara occasionally! </p>
<p>[Snow</a>? In Santa Barbara? - SkyscraperPage Forum](<a href=“Snow? In Santa Barbara? - SkyscraperPage Forum”>Snow? In Santa Barbara? - SkyscraperPage Forum)</p>
<p>I actually threw snowballs with some friends on top of the mountain and then went to the beach later on in the day… not many places you can do that.</p>
<p>GWU and AU are both less than five miles from Georgetown but they’re not on the list.</p>
<p>Please repost the list with The University of Miami! How could you forget it???!!!</p>
<p>Miami is on the third page of the US News website, becuase it tied with Tulane for #50. I missed it. It should be after Cal. GWU and AU are not in the top 50 schools.</p>
<p>Alex7592,</p>
<p>Climate in SoCal changes as you move east…given Pasadena’s location relative to UCLA and USC I find the numbers believable.</p>
<p>Why is Yale on that list?! I can tell you from personal experience that CT does NOT have very many sunny days… And look at this list:
<p>Source: [World</a> Facts and Figures - Weather Facts and Statistics](<a href=“http://www.worldfactsandfigures.com/weatherfacts/numbersunny_city_desc.php]World”>http://www.worldfactsandfigures.com/weatherfacts/numbersunny_city_desc.php)</p>
<p>Sorry lockn - they just aren’t getting the USNWR Top 50 concept.</p>
<p>Also to be clear, this is clear + partly cloudy days. As long as the sun is out, clouds are scenery.</p>
<p>If you are trying to make quality-of-life distinctions among similar, closely-ranked schools, this data may be helpful. There is a much bigger spread than I’d have expected between Bowdoin and Middlebury, or between Grinnell and Oberlin.</p>
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<p>Rank Days USNWR College (Nearby City)
1 186 6 Pomona (Los Angeles, 73% sunny)
2 186 11 Claremont McK (Los Angeles)
3 186 14 Harvey Mudd (Los Angeles)
4 186 25 Scripps (Los Angeles)</p>
<p>5 127 24 Colorado College (Colorado Springs, 69% sunny)
6 109 8 Davidson (Charlotte, 62% sunny)
7 105 14 Grinnell (Des Moines, 59% sunny)
8 105 19 US Naval Acad (Baltimore, 57% sunny)</p>
<p>9 101 6 Bowdoin (Portland, 57% sunny)
10 101 22 Colby (Portland)
11 101 25 Bates (Portland)</p>
<p>12 100 14 W&L (Richmond, 63% sunny)
13 98 4 Wellesley (Boston, 58% sunny)
14 95 8 Carleton (Twin Cities, 58% sunny)</p>
<p>15 93 3 Swarthmore (Phila., 56% sunny)
16 93 10 Haverford (Phila.)
17 93 25 Bryn Mawr (Phila.)</p>
<p>18 90 1 Williams (Worcester)
19 90 2 Amherst (Worcester)
20 90 18 Smith (Worcester)
21 90 25 Mt. Holyoke (Worcester)</p>
<p>22 82 13 Wesleyan (Hartford, 56% sunny)</p>
<p>23 69 11 Vassar (Albany, 58% sunny)
24 69 14 US Military Acad (Albany)
25 69 19 Colgate (Albany)
26 69 21 Hamilton (Albany)</p>
<p>27 66 22 Oberlin (Cleveland, 49% sunny)
28 58 4 Middlebury (Burlington, 49% sunny)</p>
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<p>Weather data source:
[World</a> Facts and Figures - Weather Facts and Statistics<a href=“excludes%20partly%20sunny%20or%20partly%20cloudy%20days”>/url</a></p>
<p>[url=<a href=“Google Answers: Sunshine per state”>Google Answers: Sunshine per state]Google</a> Answers: Sunshine per state](<a href=“http://www.worldfactsandfigures.com/weatherfacts/numbersunny_city_desc.php]World”>http://www.worldfactsandfigures.com/weatherfacts/numbersunny_city_desc.php)</p>
<p>^^Where is Occidental? USNews ranks it #33, only 8 schools farther down the list than Scripps. And it has weather almost identical to that of the Claremont schools.</p>
<p>I only took the US News top 25. It would be tied with the other California schools for most sunshine.</p>
<p>Yale only has 99? Thank god I got Matched at Stanford. Another reason to thank Leland, check.</p>
<p>Where’s San Diego State University? Its location 20 miles south of UCSD and being further inland means more sunny days. The minimal clothing the girls of SDSU you kind of confirm the high # of sunny days.</p>
<p>Yep, Notre Dame about as dismal as I guessed-#45. Throw in snow inches or degree days into the formula–I’m sure it wouldn’t help the ranking…sigh.</p>
<p>leaftye - Reread the first three words in the title of this thread.</p>
<p>This is hysterical–something more for those poor high school seniors to worry about. Though my D is pretty happy with 101 sunny days at Colby! Another good reason to have turned down Vassar and Colgate–though would those extra 3 days of sunshine have made Wellesley worth it? Hmmmm…</p>
<p>There is sunny and then there is sunny. Some of the coldest days of the winter in say Minnesota occur on clear, cloudless days - where high for the day = below zero. And I’m sure they count on the local colleges’ “sunny” ranking.</p>