Sunshine surveying is a kind of engineering surveying providing essential data for further sunshine analysisof relevant buildings. With the rapid developments of cities and increasing concerns of people on sunshine anddaylight, there are more and more projects involved with sunshine surveying and of high quality requirements. However,detailed discussion on this topic is rare. In view of this situation, this paper systemically summarizes the differentaspects related with sunshine surveying such as basic demands and detailing for surveying data, technical methods andrequirements, etc.