The least cloud anywhere that also feels warm at midday in February. All 365 towns and cities that draw visitors in North America were compared in February; these six lead.
The list
- 129% cloudMarco IslandFlorida, United States
The sky is typically 29% covered at midday in February, and it feels like 25°C. For simply being outside it rates 60, Good. See mid February on the map.
- 230% cloudSarasotaFlorida, United States
Midday in February feels like 21°C with only 30% cloud cover on a typical day. For simply being outside it rates 74, Good. See mid February on the map.
- 336% cloudCocoa BeachFlorida, United States
The sky is typically 36% covered at midday in February, and it feels like 22°C. For simply being outside it rates 70, Good. See mid February on the map.
- 451% cloudKapaaHawaii, United States
Midday in February feels like 24°C with only 51% cloud cover on a typical day. For simply being outside it rates 84, Ideal. See mid February on the map.
- 551% cloudKiheiHawaii, United States
The sky is typically 51% covered at midday in February, and it feels like 23°C. For simply being outside it rates 79, Good. See mid February on the map.
- 656% cloudHonoluluHawaii, United States
Midday in February feels like 24°C with only 56% cloud cover on a typical day. For simply being outside it rates 82, Ideal. See mid February on the map.
How this list is worked out
The data
Every figure comes from a decade of weather-station observations, blended into one typical year and read at midday, local solar time. Scores here are averaged in February; a city missing a reading for any part of that stretch is left out rather than scored on part of it.
The reading
Cloud cover is the share of the sky covered at midday. It is not hours of sunshine, which the observations do not record. Only places that feel between 20°C and 32°C at midday are compared.
The spread
To keep one warm corner from filling the list, entries are at least 150 km apart, no more than three sit within 1,000 km of each other, and no more than three come from one country unless the list would otherwise run short.
Only places that draw visitors
Towns and cities with plenty of hotels, guest houses and holiday lets nearby for their size, or a great many of them in all, counted from Overture Maps Places, an open dataset. That keeps out places the weather favours but nobody travels to. Where two places share one resort or city, the one a visitor would name is kept.
The dotted links open the map at that place and time of year, on the same layer. The map remembers the time of day you last chose there; set it to midday to see these exact numbers.