Environment
This Illuminating Map Shows How Sunlight Bathes New Zealand's Capital
An interactive data viz tracks how many rays Wellington actually receives.
Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, gets more than 2,000 hours of sunshine each year. It's no Los Angeles, which receives more than 3,000 hours, but that's a substantial amount of sun. Still, Wellington doesn't have the sunniest reputation. A recent blog post in the New Zealand Herald calls the city's weather "notoriously bad":
That post was written by developers Laurent Lebreton and Timo Franz of Dumpark, a data visualization group. The agency has created an interactive map that shows how much daily sunlight the New Zealand capital actually receives. Users can zoom in and out of different parts of the city, and also see changes in sunlight at different times of the day.