you bring the snacks. we'll find the sun.
sunniest spots, ranked · UK & Irelandyou always know it's grey where you are. you never know where's sunny within reach. that's where i come in. pop your location in, pick a day and a distance, and i'll rank the seaside towns, hills and villages around you by live forecasts, with a morning-to-evening snapshot so you know when to set off. already got somewhere in mind? i'll check that too. share a forecast with a friend, drop a note in the honesty box, and there are no accounts, cookies or ads anywhere. then off you pop.
we weigh three things together for each spot: how much sunshine's forecast, how warm it'll be, and how likely rain is. sunshine's the biggest factor and rain pulls the score down just as hard — warmth only nudges it, judged against what's normal for the time of year rather than a flat temperature, so a crisp, clear January day can still score well, and a grey, muggy one in July doesn't get an unearned boost just for being mild. the rain figure is an hour-by-hour average across the day out (9am to 6pm, with the last couple of hours counting for less, since most people are heading home) — not just the single wettest hour, so one sharp shower at 4pm doesn't write off a dry morning. worth knowing: open-meteo (our forecast source) already blends multiple national weather models into one best-estimate number before it ever reaches us. we score on top of that single figure — we don't independently compare the raw models ourselves.