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    How cloudy is Dayton?

    In a typical year, the sky over Dayton is mostly cloudy or overcast about 50% of the time, and clear or nearly clear about 38%.

    December is the cloudiest month, mostly cloudy about 70% of the time, and August the least cloudy, at about 35%. Across winter, December to February, it’s mostly cloudy about 67% of the time. That makes it the 27th 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 56% of the time.

    Dayton spends about 67% of its winter under a mostly cloudy sky, which is a strange forecast for the birthplace of flight to keep handing out.

    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 year50%
    Clear or nearly clear, all year38%
    Mostly cloudy, December to February67%
    Cloudiest monthDecember, 70%
    Least cloudy monthAugust, 35%

    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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    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly, 1991 to 2020, station USW00093815. Airport sensors see cloud up to about 12,000 feet, so thin high cloud isn’t counted.