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Home›Food & Dining›Free Eats on Sunless Days in Yuma

Free Eats on Sunless Days in Yuma

By Sam Lowe
July 21, 2011
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YUMA  — This city is so proud of its sunshine that it has always been willing to be on it. According to the Guinness World Record book, Yuma is the sunniest place on earth, with bright skies prevailing an average of 4,055 hours out of a possible 4,456 hours every year. That’s 91 percent of the time. Or 350 days per year.

Sunshine GuaranteeMore than a century ago, Yuma hotels backed up the sunshine boast by offering free board to visitors every day the sun didn’t shine. Times have changed, but there are still freebies. Beginning August 1 and continuing for a year, participating restaurants will provide complimentary meals for registered guests at participating hotels every time the sun doesn’t break through.

Cut out of Mayor KriegerThis is all part of Arizona’s Centennial celebration. An official sunless day, also known as “Code Gloom,” will be declared by a committee of Yuma Visitors Bureau staffers and local meteorologists. The declaration will be announced when hotels place a life-sized cutout of Mayor Alan Krieger in their lobbies.

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  1. Sunny Days Mean No Free Food in Yuma | 7 August, 2012 at 07:22 Reply

    […] it a “wrap.” But it’s not the kind you eat. The city successfully has wrapped up a yearlong celebration of Arizona’s 100th birthday by promising free food on every day the sun… between August 1, 2011, and July 31, 2012. And they made it without giving away so much as a single […]

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