These are the world’s sunniest cities, ranked by annual sunshine hours

If your holiday brief begins and ends with blue skies, a trip to the world’s sunniest cities will be high on your vacation wishlist. And a new global study has ranked the cities around the world that enjoy the most annual sunshine hours, and several destinations in the Middle East feature among the top spots.

For travellers, more sunshine hours mean more time outdoors – whether that’s winter beach mornings, waterfront walks in the spring, or dinners that start before sunset and finish…