# American city with most cloudy days?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 3, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-city-with-most-cloudy-days/248502 "2004-06-03T20:43:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![IKinSpelGud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/46a35a/32.png) [@IKinSpelGud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IKinSpelGud)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-city-with-most-cloudy-days/248502/1 "2004-06-03T20:43:21Z")

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Pretty simple factual question. I’m trying to find a ranking of American cities by number of cloudy/partly cloudy/clear days out of the year and I am not getting anything with google. Anyone know which city(/ies) have the most overcast days?

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-city-with-most-cloudy-days/248502/2 "2004-06-03T21:14:26Z")

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[This](http://www.worldfactsandfigures.com/weatherfacts.htm) site ranks:

COLD BAY,AK 10 (days)  
MAJURO,MARSHALL IS,PC 8  
YAP,W CAROLINE IS.,PC 5  
KOROR,PC 4  
POHNPEI,CAROLINE IS.,PC 2  
CHUUK,E.CAROLINE IS.,PC 0

as the cloudiest and Yuma the sunniest.

I have no idea where “PC” is so I included the ranking up to Cold Bay.

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-city-with-most-cloudy-days/248502/3 "2004-06-03T21:17:35Z")

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Duh… in the Pacific.

If it’s accurate then Cold Bay, Alaska - Yuma, Arizona is the width of your scale.

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-city-with-most-cloudy-days/248502/4 "2004-06-03T21:24:18Z")

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> [@lieu](#):
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> I have no idea where “PC” is so I included the ranking up to Cold Bay.

I’m thinking that PC stands for Pacific Ocean

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**Author:** ![IKinSpelGud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/46a35a/32.png) [@IKinSpelGud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IKinSpelGud)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-city-with-most-cloudy-days/248502/5 "2004-06-04T00:11:19Z")

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Thanks **lieu**.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-city-with-most-cloudy-days/248502/6 "2004-06-04T03:05:03Z")

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I once saw a list of the cloudiest _major_ US cities. I was/had lived in 3 of the top 4.

Now I live in a place that’s only around the top 1/3 cloudiest. It’s a freaking sunshine festival as far as I’m concerned.

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**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-city-with-most-cloudy-days/248502/7 "2004-06-04T03:43:10Z")

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APALACHICOLA,FL 128

So much for Florida being called the “Sunshine State”…