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    How cloudy is El Paso?

    In a typical year, the sky over El Paso is mostly cloudy or overcast about 26% of the time, and clear or nearly clear about 57%.

    July is the cloudiest month, mostly cloudy about 34% of the time, and June the least cloudy, at about 18%. Across winter, December to February, it’s mostly cloudy about 31% of the time. That makes it the 9th 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 13% of the time.

    El Paso’s cloudiest month is July, at about 34% mostly cloudy, which in this desert is about as cloudy as anything gets.

    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 year26%
    Clear or nearly clear, all year57%
    Mostly cloudy, December to February31%
    Cloudiest monthJuly, 34%
    Least cloudy monthJune, 18%

    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 USW00023044. Airport sensors see cloud up to about 12,000 feet, so thin high cloud isn’t counted.