If the prospect of keeping an eye on transport secretary Grant Shapps’s Twitter feed doesn’t fill you with much joy, there’s only one option for a holiday this year: a staycation. So where is the best place in Britain to find good weather?
Of course, no holiday in the UK can be guaranteed to be rain free, but there is one part of the country where you are more likely than elsewhere to find sunshine.
Devon? Cornwall? The answer may surprise you. Sussex is, in fact, the sunniest county in the United Kingdom, according to Met Office records. Over the last 29 years, the western part of the county has averaged 1902 hours of sunshine a year. Not to be outdone, Eastbourne and Hastings, in the east of the county, hold the record for the sunniest month ever recorded: 383.9 hours sunshine in July 1911.
Exactly 110 years on from that record breaking month, Sussex is as sunny as usual – and a good bet for fed-up Brits hoping for some warm weather without the prospect of being stuck in quarantine on their return.
Rudyard Kipling wrote that the ‘spot’ he ‘beloved over all’ was Sussex by the sea.
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