MakeoverMonday | Week 44 | 2019: World Cities Ranked by Annual Sunshine Hours

Before winter really takes hold, let's look at some sunshine hours in cities around the world.

Here is this week's original:

What works well:

• Captivating visual that makes me curious
• The bar charts at the bottom are nice
• Top 5 lists at the beginning are useful

What could be improved:

• Who is actually able to read, let alone understand quickly the top chart? I am not a huge fan or hiding data, information and facts in artistic charts that are not accessible because of their design
• It's actually all a bit too colorful for me. What do the colors mean and why are there so many of them?
• Ranking would be easiest done in a bar chart

What I did:

• Having lived in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, I always find myself drawn to the difference in latitude and the impact it has on climate and weather.
• So I painstakingly added the missing latitude values for ambiguous cities and then divided them into North and South.
• I decided to annotate my line charts for noteworthy cities.
• Click the image for the interactive version.