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    Cloudy skies · Missouri

    How cloudy is St. Louis?

    St. Louis right now

    43°FClear skies

    • Today44°F / 37°FClear skies
    • Tomorrow51°F / 28°FClear skies
    • Monday52°F / 35°FClear skies
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    In a typical year, the sky over St. Louis is mostly cloudy or overcast about 50% of the time, and clear or nearly clear about 35%.

    January is the cloudiest month, mostly cloudy about 60% of the time, and August the least cloudy, at about 37%. Across winter, December to February, it’s mostly cloudy about 59% of the time. That makes it the 29th cloudiest 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.

    St. Louis is mostly cloudy about 59% of the winter, so the Gateway Arch spends a lot of the season reflecting nothing in particular.

    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 year35%
    Mostly cloudy, December to February59%
    Cloudiest monthJanuary, 60%
    Least cloudy monthAugust, 37%

    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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    Every city’s sky, cloudiest first

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    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly, 1991 to 2020, station USW00013994. Airport sensors see cloud up to about 12,000 feet, so thin high cloud isn’t counted.