Cloudiest Places In The United States
- Lucian@going2paris.net
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Anchorage, Alaska
June 1, 2026
And I am in #1!!
The cloudiest places in the US are concentrated in three main regions: southern/coastal Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and the Great Lakes/Rust Belt.
Anchorage, Alaska, takes the top spot nationally with about 239 cloudy days per year.Top cloudiest U.S. cities, ranked by average annual cloudy days:
Anchorage, AK: ~239 days
Seattle, WA: ~226 days
Portland, OR: ~222 days
Buffalo, NY: ~208 days
Grand Rapids, MI: ~205 days
Pittsburgh, PA: ~203 days
Cleveland, OH: ~202 days
For extreme cloud cover, parts of the southern Alaskan coast (like Cold Bay) can average over 300 cloudy days per year, and Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, is the gloomiest location in the contiguous U.S. (244 days).
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