Based on surfce meteorological observations from 58 meteorological stations in 1965 － 2005 in Hebei Province，the spatial
and temporal distribution characteristic of sunshine hours and its varaition trend as well as influence factors were analyzed in this paper．
The results show that sunshine hours distribution has obvious regional characteristic with more in the north plateau and mountain area，
and less in the eastern part of the Taihang Mountain，which correlated directly with Hebei’s terrain． As for temporal distribution of
sunshine hours，it has obvious seasonal character with most in spring and least in winter，which is related to the sun altitude and weather
factors． Annual and seasonal mean sunshine hours all presented descending trend in Hebei province from 1965 to 2005． The relative
humidity and total cloud had negative correlation with sunshine hours variation．