How to read the clarity percentage: a guide to sky weather

2026-06-30

Everything in AstroFinex — the daily, weekly and monthly views — is built around a single measure: Clarity. Shown as a percentage from 0 to 100, it summarises how harmonious or tense the sky’s aspects are on a given day. The higher the percentage, the clearer the sky; the lower, the stormier.

The five weather bands

The clarity percentage falls into five bands, each mapped to a weather icon: 80%+ is Sunny (a harmonious, calm sky), 60–79% Partly Cloudy (mostly clear, lightly mixed), 40–59% Cloudy (a typical, balanced day), 20–39% Rainy (tense aspects, a choppy sky) and below 20% Stormy (hard aspects, high turbulence). The weather icons and one-line descriptions across the app are derived directly from these bands.

Why a weather metaphor?

Weather is one of the few languages where everyone reads probabilistic information with the right intuition. A “stormy” day does not forbid going outside; it reminds you to take an umbrella. Clarity works the same way: it is background information about the character of the day, not an instruction.

Daily, weekly, monthly — and the season

The same measure is computed on three time scales: daily clarity is a snapshot of the day, weekly clarity is the seven-day trend, and monthly clarity is the month’s overall climate. Above them sits the Season, which represents an instrument’s structural cycle over months. Separating short-term weather from long-term climate is what makes the picture read correctly.

What clarity does not say

Clarity is not a directional forecast; it does not say a price will rise or fall. What it measures is the character of the sky — how legible conditions are. Low clarity means “uncertainty is high and the picture is mixed”; how you use that information is up to you.

Note: AstroFinex content describes traditional readings of sky conditions; it is not investment advice.