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Environment

Sunshine Duration- Monthly Mean Daily Duration

Data from Jan 1982 to Dec 2025

Last updated: 08 Jan 2026, 16:53 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 (528 rows, 6.6 KB)

Month
Month (YYYY-MM)
Mean Sunshine Hrs
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
64.0%
5.84.7%
5.43.8%
6.23.6%
1982-015.6
1982-027.6
1982-035.1
1982-044.7
1982-055.8
1982-067.3
1982-077.6
1982-085.4
1982-095.2
1982-105.6

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
MonthmonthMonth (YYYY-MM)--
Mean Sunshine Hrsmean_sunshine_hrsText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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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 (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved February 4, 2026 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)