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Environment

Sunshine Duration- Monthly Mean Daily Duration

Data from Jan 1982 to Aug 2025

Last updated: 08 Sep 2025, 11:01 SGT

NEA (National Environment Agency)

Monthly mean of daily sunshine duration (in hours) at the Changi Climate Station. Unit of measure for readings is in hours.

Mean sunshine hrs by Month

Data explorer

SunshineDurationMonthlyMeanDailyDuration.csv (524 rows, 6.6 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Mean Sunshine Hrs Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% 63.8% 5.84.8% 5.43.8% 6.23.6%
1982-01	5.6
1982-02	7.6
1982-03	5.1
1982-04	4.7
1982-05	5.8
1982-06	7.3
1982-07	7.6
1982-08	5.4
1982-09	5.2
1982-10	5.6

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Mean Sunshine Hrs	mean_sunshine_hrs	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_9a80d732aa5de0a68be0557fc9437ad0"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

National Environment Agency. (2015). Sunshine Duration- Monthly Mean Daily Duration (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 13, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9a80d732aa5de0a68be0557fc9437ad0/view

About this dataset

Contact

ONG_Chin_Hong@nea.gov.sg

Created on

21 May 2015

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

NEA (National Environment Agency)