Cloudy skies · California
How cloudy is Sacramento?
In a typical year, the sky over Sacramento is mostly cloudy or overcast about 18% of the time, and clear or nearly clear about 78%.
January is the cloudiest month, mostly cloudy about 38% of the time, and July the least cloudy, at about 3%. Across winter, December to February, it’s mostly cloudy about 36% of the time. That makes it the 2nd 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 69% of the time.
Sacramento is clear or nearly clear about 78% of the time, and in July it’s mostly cloudy only about 3%, so summer here is a sky with nothing in it.
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 | 18% |
|---|---|
| Clear or nearly clear, all year | 78% |
| Mostly cloudy, December to February | 36% |
| Cloudiest month | January, 38% |
| Least cloudy month | July, 3% |
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
- Amarillo, Texas: mostly cloudy about 23% of the time
- Grand Junction, Colorado: mostly cloudy about 23% of the time
- Las Vegas, Nevada: mostly cloudy about 24% of the time
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Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly, 1991 to 2020, station USW00023232. Airport sensors see cloud up to about 12,000 feet, so thin high cloud isn’t counted.