Cloudy skies · Hawaii
How cloudy is Honolulu?
Honolulu right now
73°FLight rain
- Today81°F / 73°FRain
- Tomorrow77°F / 73°FRain
- Monday80°F / 73°FClouds
Meh. Just meh.
Live from OpenWeatherMap. Alerts from the National Weather Service.
In a typical year, the sky over Honolulu is mostly cloudy or overcast about 25% of the time, and clear or nearly clear about 45%.
January is the cloudiest month, mostly cloudy about 29% of the time, and September the least cloudy, at about 21%. Across winter, December to February, it’s mostly cloudy about 28% of the time. That makes it the 7th 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 31% of the time.
Honolulu is mostly cloudy about 25% of the time all year round, so even its cloudiest month, January, at about 29%, still looks like a postcard.
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 | 25% |
|---|---|
| Clear or nearly clear, all year | 45% |
| Mostly cloudy, December to February | 28% |
| Cloudiest month | January, 29% |
| Least cloudy month | September, 21% |
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
- Casper, Wyoming: mostly cloudy about 25% of the time
- Phoenix, Arizona: mostly cloudy about 25% of the time
- El Paso, Texas: mostly cloudy about 26% of the time
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Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly, 1991 to 2020, station USW00022521. Airport sensors see cloud up to about 12,000 feet, so thin high cloud isn’t counted.