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Population: 344,284 When you visit, be sure and grab your shades. On an average, Wichitans enjoy 225 sunny days per year. Kansas is among the top 10 "Sunniest" states in the country with even more sunny days than Florida! Wichita averages 128 clear days and 97 partly cloudy days per year, for a total of 225 days of sunshine. Wichita Mid-Continent Airport operates under VFR (Visual Flight Rules) conditions about 91% of the time. The prevailing wind is southerly and averages about 9 miles per hour. Summers are usually tolerably warm and moderated by steady wind and relatively low humidity. Temperatures above 90 degrees occur an average of 63 days per year. Winters are usually mild with short periods of very cold weather. Temperatures below zero occur about 2 days per year.
Last year the Wichita public school district was the only one in the nation to have two students achieve perfect scores on the ACT test. Another student had the maximum score on the SAT test. For two years in a row, the Wichita school district has produced nineteen national merit scholars. For this school year, The National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced in September that 22 Wichita school district students qualified as semifinalists. Impressive? You bet! This education has to rate an "A+" in anyone's grade book.
There are more than 80 different denominations in the Wichita area expressing their faith in more than 500 places of worship. This commitment to fellowship helps build our strong community character and values.
In a recent study, Kansas earned the rank of "eighth healthiest state in the nation." And, Wichita is the regional center for that premium health care. With three major medical centers (two of which have Level I trauma centers and air ambulance services); one veterans' hospital; numerous specialty hospitals and clinics and approximately 24,000 health-care professionals, Wichita is obviously a "healthy choice."
