UK weather map reveals Britain's sunniest spots - has your town made the top 10?

The Isle of Wight is the sunniest spot successful the UK, according to Met Office data.

The cosy municipality of Shanklin that looks implicit the English Channel nabs conscionable implicit 248 hours of sunshine, astir 7 hours much than Southend-on-Sea that comes successful astatine 2nd place.

Swanage came successful astatine fig 10, with Bournemouth not acold down with astir 222 hours of sunlight a year.

All the apical 10 sunniest spots beryllium on the southbound seashore - successful areas similar Sussex, Dorset and Cornwall - acknowledgment to its low-lying coastal fronts facing the balmier continent.

This country besides sits successful the rainfall shadiness of the northbound and west's higher crushed that helps bounds rainfall and unreality cover.

The lukewarm waters of the Gulf Stream besides lend to the sunnier disposition successful the region, arsenic good arsenic elevation differences and winds sweeping done the country.

Ian Lisk, main meteorologist astatine the Met Office, told No Deposit Rewards that this prima signifier is 'all to bash with our aged friend, the pitchy stream'. 

He said: 'Weather typically moves crossed the UK from westbound to east, but the north-south amplification of the pitchy watercourse has enabled areas of precocious unit to bent astir successful the vicinity of the UK.

'This means that our stock of the much emblematic unsettled upwind has been deflected distant from us.'

Travelling further northbound is simply a sure-fire mode to commencement dropping those hours of sunlight - Manchester had antecedently held the rubric of the astir grey spot successful the UK.

Glasgow was blistery connected the bluish city's heels, with Blackburn not acold behind. 

It was besides revealed successful March that determination are lone 4 countries successful the satellite that person little prima than the UK. 

Combined England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland nutrient astir 1,530 'annual sunshine hours' - which comes to astir 4.19 hours per day.

Ireland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Iceland and the Faroe Islands each drawback less rays than the British Isles, with the Danish archipelago lone getting 840 hours of sunshine a year.