Android & iPhone · Free

Local Weather Forecast & Radar

Local Weather Forecast & Radar is a free weather app for Android and iPhone built to be read at a glance: large text, clean layouts and today’s weather first, with an hourly and 7-day forecast, rain radar, weather alerts and home-screen widgets one tap away.

Large, clear text Hourly & 7-day Rain radar Weather alerts Widgets Light, dark & high contrast
Current weather in large type: temperature, conditions, humidity, pressure and visibility Rain radar tracking a storm front Hourly forecast with temperatures and rain probability Home screen weather widgets in several sizes Weather alerts for high temperature, strong winds and heavy rain Seven-day forecast with humidity, UV index, wind and rain

What the app does

Today at a glance, detail when you want it.

Current conditions

Temperature and feels-like, conditions, humidity, pressure, visibility, UV index, wind speed and direction, sunrise and sunset, moonrise, moonset and moon phase.

Hourly and 7-day forecasts

The next 12 hours and the week ahead: highs and lows, rain probability, snow and wind, with a short written summary for each day.

Rain radar

See approaching rain and storms on an interactive map. Premium animates the radar and adds more map layers.

Weather alerts

Notifications for severe weather, rain or snow on the way, high and low temperatures and strong wind, plus morning and evening summaries. You choose which ones you get.

Home-screen widgets

Current weather, hourly, daily, and clock-and-weather widgets in several sizes. Each widget can show a different saved location.

Made to be easy to read

Large text you can make larger, and Automatic, Light, Dark and High contrast themes. Save up to 10 places and switch between them instantly.

Free, with optional Premium

Everything on this page is free, with ads. Premium is an optional subscription; prices are shown in the app and vary by country.

Premium adds:

  • No ads
  • Animated radar
  • Extra radar map layers

At a glance

PlatformsAndroid 7.0 or later; iPhone and iPad with iOS 16 or later
PriceFree, with an optional Premium subscription
LanguagesAndroid: more than 45. iPhone: English
Weather dataForeca, with OpenWeatherMap as a backup
Saved locationsUp to 10
DeveloperMACHAPP Software Ltd, Limassol, Cyprus

Questions

More in the Weather FAQ.

Yes, on both Android and iPhone. Every feature except animated radar and the extra radar layers is free, with ads. An optional Premium subscription removes the ads and adds those radar features.

No. The app’s alerts are worked out from the forecast for your saved places: severe weather, rain or snow on the way, temperature and wind. They are a useful heads-up, not a replacement for official warnings, so follow your national weather service and your phone’s emergency alerts as well. How weather alerts work.

No. You can search for a city or pick a popular one instead. If you do allow location, it is used to show the weather where you are.

The app keeps the last forecast it downloaded, so you can still read it without a connection. It updates again as soon as you are back online.

Up to 10, for example home, work and family. Switch between them in the app, or give each home-screen widget its own place.

Local Weather is about reading the weather quickly: large text, few screens, on Android and iPhone. Transparent Clock & Weather is for people who want to design their home screen, with 15 clock and weather widgets, many skins and a choice of forecast providers, on Android.

Weather you can read at a glance

Free on Google Play and the App Store.