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    How cloudy is Burlington?

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    38°FOvercast skies

    • Today39°F / 37°FRain
    • Tomorrow41°F / 34°FRain
    • Monday45°F / 38°FClouds
    The sun's playing hide and seek.

    Live from OpenWeatherMap. Alerts from the National Weather Service.

    In a typical year, the sky over Burlington is mostly cloudy or overcast about 52% of the time, and clear or nearly clear about 37%.

    December is the cloudiest month, mostly cloudy about 72% of the time, and August the least cloudy, at about 36%. Across winter, December to February, it’s mostly cloudy about 65% of the time. That makes it the 22nd cloudiest 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 94% of the time.

    Burlington is mostly cloudy about 72% of the time in December, so the lake, the mountains and the sky all agree on the same shade of grey.

    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 year52%
    Clear or nearly clear, all year37%
    Mostly cloudy, December to February65%
    Cloudiest monthDecember, 72%
    Least cloudy monthAugust, 36%

    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.

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    Every city’s sky, cloudiest first

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    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly, 1991 to 2020, station USW00014742. Airport sensors see cloud up to about 12,000 feet, so thin high cloud isn’t counted.