Where does the Sun shine the most?

In the United States, as of 2004, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that Yuma, Arizona, has a yearly average of 90 percent of sunny days, or more than 4,000 sunny hours per year. St. Petersburg, Florida had 768 consecutive sunny days from February 9, 1967, to March 17, 1969. If you were to travel, you would find the eastern end of the Sahara Desert in North Africa the sunniestthe Sun shines there 97 percent of the time.