cities | Geographical Perspectives

Map of the Best Bargains in Sunshine

In recent blog posts I generated a list of the Top 25 Sunniest US Cities Ranked by Housing Cost and I explained my methodology in another post. I was waiting on some new features in the MarketSeer web mapping system that we’ve been developing at TerraSeer but now I’m able to prepare a static map to display the best values in sunshine. Large circles with deeper shades of orange offer the best value in terms of providing the most sunshine for the lowest housing cost. Click on the map for a larger and easier to read image.

If you’re looking for a deal on sunshine, you just might want to take a close look at cities near the Rio Grande or the Arkansas River or just about anywhere in between.

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Top 25 Sunniest US Cities Ranked by Housing Cost

I recently put together a way to calculate the price of a day of annual sunshine. I thought some people might be interested in finding just the sunniest places in America ranked by the cost of owning a home in those locations. Abilene is #1 and Texas dominates with 5 of the top 7 locations. California also has 5 cities in the top 25 but most of them are near the bottom due to high housing costs. Cities in Arizona (4), Colorado (3), Nevada (2), Florida (2), Louisiana (1), Oklahoma (1), New Mexico (1), and Hawaii (1) complete the list.

Here are the Top 25. Or, check out this map.