RainViewer: Rain Radar Live

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About this app

Live weather radar, nowcast and rain alerts, hyperlocal forecast and storm tracker. See the rain, understand it, and act before it changes your plans.

Tracking a storm, watching one build, or checking if it's dry enough for a walk? RainViewer shows the actual rain on the weather radar map, in seconds, direct from the radar source. With 10 million downloads across iOS and Android, people rely on RainViewer for live rain radar.

Radar wins the map screen. Built with Material 3: fewer buttons, more radar. A layer indicator always shows which layer you see: Radar, Satellite, Forecast, Temperature, Rainfall Totals, or Radar + Satellite. The timeline marks every radar frame. Fullscreen mode clears the interface for a clean screenshot or screen recording. Tablets and foldables get a proper landscape layout.

The radar map you actually use

  • Tap the map for rain intensity, cloud top temperature, the full alert advisory, and when that spot was last scanned

  • Live indicator shows when you see the latest scan. New radar frames every 2 minutes on Essential and Pro

  • Native radar resolution, no blur at any zoom. Explore individual radar stations with Pro Radar

  • 20 colour schemes, 5 animation speeds, Rain Direction arrows

  • Rain radar in 80+ countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania



Rain alerts you can rely on: Rain alerts for your saved locations, including drizzle, with an optional daily limit. Severe weather alerts from the US, most of Europe, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and more. Choose how often your location updates in the background: Auto, or every 15 minutes to 12 hours.

Storm tracker: Tropical Storms overlay on the map. Timed alerts show when a storm reaches you.

Minute-by-minute precipitation: See when rain starts, peaks, and stops. Radar nowcast up to 2 hours ahead, refreshed every 10 minutes.

Hourly and 14-day weather forecast: Temperature, rain chance, and wind hourly for up to 72 hours, then daily for 14 days. Air quality index. Forecast map layers from ECMWF, ICON, GFS, HRRR, and WRF-ROMS Thailand.

Rainfall Totals (QPE): How much rain fell in the last 1 to 48 hours. Tap any spot on the radar map for the exact amount.

AI Weather Insights: Our AI reads the radar near you and summarises the next few hours.

Five home screen widgets: Radar Map with Rain Direction arrows, Nowcast rain chart, Hourly, 7-Day, and Summary. Transparent or solid backgrounds. Foldable support, including Galaxy Z Fold.

Pro Radar (US + most of Europe, 22 countries): See what meteorologists see: Doppler products on all tilts with tap-to-read values.

Privacy: Location is used only for local forecast and rain alerts. We never sell your data.

FREE: live radar and satellite, 6-hour playback, 30-minute nowcast, 5-minute updates, 24-hour model forecast, 12-hour hourly and 7-day forecast, 2 saved locations.
ESSENTIAL adds: 48-hour playback, 2-hour nowcast, 2-minute updates, exact frames, Rain Direction, Tropical Storms, tap on map for details, Rainfall Totals, 72-hour model and hourly forecast, 14-day forecast, air quality, AI Weather Insights, 20 saved locations, no ads.
PRO adds: all Pro Radar data with 48-hour playback.
Free trial on annual plans. Cancel anytime.

Questions? support@rainviewer.com
Live rain radar: see the rain on the weather radar and get rain alerts
Updated on
4 Nov 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Location, App activity and 2 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, App activity and Device or other IDs
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

1.6L reviews
Jack Hampson
26 August 2026
I love this app. My only question that I cannot find an answer for is the size of the black ring around my location. looks like about 15 miles. is it just there for a scale reference? then the settings should add "15 mile reference circle on/off" unless it's something else entirely.
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M T
12 October 2026
Just wish it displayed the current temperature so I don't have to have 15 weather widgets just to get basic info. Update: I'm a retard, I found how to have current temp from Rainviewer on a widget. If you want to glance at your phone and see what the next few hours looks like, highly recommend RainViewer.
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MeteoLab
15 October 2026
So glad you found the widget with temperature! Thanks for recommending RainViewer 🤍
roses
13 October 2026
Excellent free version app. Really disappointed to uninstall it. Why? Can't trust the data privacy settings. Confirmed choices. Went back in to check. All had reset to permissions I hadn't given. Three strikes and I'm out!
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MeteoLab
15 October 2026
Thanks for the kind words, and sorry about the privacy settings. Your choices should stay as you set them, and our QA is looking into it now. If you're open to it, please email us via Settings > Send Feedback > Send Email with your phone model, as it would really help us find the cause.

What's new

· FIND ANY PLACE ON THE MAP: Tap the search button, pick a city and the map moves there with a pin. Tap the pin to see the forecast. With radars shown, the same button finds radar stations.
· Turn off "Forecast Cone" in Settings under "Weather Layers" to see rain below a storm.
· Weather alert borders now stay above rain and clouds.