Cloudy skies · Iowa
How cloudy is Dubuque?
In a typical year, the sky over Dubuque is mostly cloudy or overcast about 37% of the time, and clear or nearly clear about 59%.
December is the cloudiest month, mostly cloudy about 49% of the time, and July the least cloudy, at about 23%. Across winter, December to February, it’s mostly cloudy about 47% of the time. That makes it the 39th least cloudy sky of the 116 US cities we track.
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The forecast for the next 48 hours doesn’t have the sky mostly cloudy at any point.
Dubuque is clear or nearly clear about 59% of the time, a surprisingly sunny sky for a river town on the edge of Iowa.
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 | 37% |
|---|---|
| Clear or nearly clear, all year | 59% |
| Mostly cloudy, December to February | 47% |
| Cloudiest month | December, 49% |
| Least cloudy month | July, 23% |
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
- Billings, Montana: mostly cloudy about 37% of the time
- San Francisco, California: mostly cloudy about 37% of the time
- Asheville, North Carolina: mostly cloudy about 36% of the time
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Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly, 1991 to 2020, station USW00094908. Airport sensors see cloud up to about 12,000 feet, so thin high cloud isn’t counted.