Weather games for kids

Play Be the Weather Reporter: five questions, three boxes each, no typing, no sign-up.

Be the weather reporter: three levels

Every question has three boxes to tap, and no typing. A report is five questions. Each right answer lights a sunny star, and the TV card at the end shows the stars and one line for each place. A wrong answer costs nothing: the round shows the right answer and the numbers behind it. A new report starts easy and gets harder only after right answers, and there is a Just play button that turns the score off.

The numbers come from Planet Earth, the interactive globe: its temperature, rain and sunshine maps for each month, built from the Climatic Research Unit's climate averages. A round is only asked when those numbers back the answer. The maps show monthly averages, day and night together, not today's weather.

Weather facts for kids

• What clouds are. Clouds are made of tiny drops of water, or tiny bits of ice, floating in the air.
• Why it rains. Rain falls when the tiny drops in a cloud join together and get too heavy to float.
• The water cycle. The Sun warms water so it rises into the air as an invisible gas called water vapor. High up it cools and turns back into drops in clouds, and falls again as rain or snow.
• Rainbows. A rainbow appears when sunlight shines through raindrops. You see one with the Sun behind you and the rain in front of you.
• Thunder and lightning. Lightning heats the air around it so fast that the air booms. That boom is thunder.
• Light is faster than sound. Light travels much faster than sound, so you see lightning first and hear its thunder a little later.
• What wind is. Wind is air on the move. Air flows from places where the air is pressing down harder to places where it presses less.
• Snowflakes. A snowflake begins as a tiny ice crystal high in a cloud. Ice crystals have six sides, so snowflakes have six arms or points.
• Freezing. Water freezes into ice at 0 degrees Celsius, which is 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Fog. Fog is a cloud that touches the ground.
• Hurricanes. A hurricane is a huge spinning storm that forms over warm ocean water and brings strong wind and heavy rain.
• Tornadoes. A tornado is a spinning column of air that reaches from a storm cloud down to the ground.
• Weather and climate. Weather is what the air is doing today. Climate is the usual weather in a place over many years.
• Weather tools. A thermometer measures how warm the air is, a rain gauge measures how much rain fell, and an anemometer measures how fast the wind blows.

Weather records on the globe

• Hottest place. Death Valley in California reached 56.7°C (134°F) in 1913, the hottest air temperature ever measured.
• Coldest place. Vostok Station in Antarctica got down to −89.2°C (−128.6°F) in 1983. That's more than four times colder than a freezer.
• Wettest place. Mawsynram in India gets about 11.9 m (39 feet) of rain a year, enough to cover a three-storey house.
• Driest place. Parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile have gone years without a single drop of rain. Scientists test Mars rovers there.

Fly to any of them on the globe and switch to the Temperature or Rain view.

Weather experiments at home

• Rain gauge. Stand a clear cup outside in an open spot, put a ruler beside it, and read the water level after each rainy day.
• Cloud in a jar. Pour a little hot water into a jar, put ice on the lid, and watch the mist swirl inside as the warm air meets the cold lid. A grown-up pours the hot water.
• Wind check. Tie a ribbon to a stick and see which way it points. The wind blows from the side the ribbon points away from.

Questions parents ask

What is a good weather game for kids?

Be the Weather Reporter on this page: a child reads real temperature, rain and sunshine numbers for a place, taps one of three boxes for the forecast, and earns sunny stars on a little TV card. It starts with sun, rain and snow, and moves on to comparing places and explaining why.

Is the weather in the game real?

It is real climate data: each place's usual temperature, rain and sunshine for a month, averaged over many years. It is not today's forecast.

What ages is it for?

The first level suits ages 5 and up, who can read a short clue or have it read to them. The comparing and why levels suit ages 7 to 11. Nothing is typed, and no name or answer is kept.

How do I teach weather facts to a young child?

Start with what they can see: clouds, rain, wind and the temperature on a thermometer. Then connect two things, such as the Sun warming water and clouds forming. The facts above are one idea each, so you can read one aloud a day.

Is it free?

Yes. It is free through the end of 2026, with no ads and no sign-up to start playing.