Cloudy skies · North Carolina
How cloudy is Asheville?
In a typical year, the sky over Asheville is mostly cloudy or overcast about 36% of the time, and clear or nearly clear about 57%.
January is the cloudiest month, mostly cloudy about 41% of the time, and July the least cloudy, at about 31%. Across winter, December to February, it’s mostly cloudy about 40% of the time. That makes it the 38th least cloudy sky of the 116 US cities we track.
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The forecast for the next 48 hours has the sky mostly cloudy about 38% of the time.
Asheville is mostly cloudy about 36% of the time, so the Blue Ridge looks blue more often than not.
Live 48-hour forecast from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Alerts from the National Weather Service.
The sky at a glance
| Mostly cloudy or overcast, all year | 36% |
|---|---|
| Clear or nearly clear, all year | 57% |
| Mostly cloudy, December to February | 40% |
| Cloudiest month | January, 41% |
| Least cloudy month | July, 31% |
Shares of hours across a typical year. Mostly cloudy means at least five eighths of the sky covered; clear or nearly clear means two eighths or less.
Cities with about the same sky
- Corpus Christi, Texas: mostly cloudy about 36% of the time
- Peoria, Illinois: mostly cloudy about 36% of the time
- Waterloo, Iowa: mostly cloudy about 36% of the time
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Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly, 1991 to 2020, station USW00003812. Airport sensors see cloud up to about 12,000 feet, so thin high cloud isn’t counted.