Weather Emojis List: Copy Every Sun, Cloud, Rain and Storm

Here is the full set of weather emojis, grouped by sky condition, with what each one means and when it fits. Select any symbol below and paste it straight into your message, caption or post. The list covers sun, clouds, rain, snow, storms, wind, fog, heat and cold, plus a few seasonal extras that people reach for when they talk about the weather.

TL;DR

• Weather emojis fall into six groups: sun, cloud, rain, snow and ice, storm and wind, and temperature. Pick by the condition you want to show.
• Unicode defines the character and its name, but each platform draws its own picture, so ⛅ on an iPhone will not look identical on Android or Windows.
• Many weather emojis double as feelings: 🌀 can mean a cyclone or feeling dizzy, ☔ can mean rain or a gloomy mood, 🌈 often means hope after a hard stretch.
• For summer, combine ☀️ with 🌴, 🏖️, 🍉 or 😎. For winter, pair ❄️ with ⛄ or 🧣.
• Copy from the lists below, or search by name in the Emoji Trove library if you want something not covered here.

Table of Contents

• Sun and clear sky
• Clouds and overcast
• Rain and drizzle
• Snow, ice and cold
• Storms, lightning and wind
• Rainbows, rain-after-sun and sky moments
• What the official Unicode list actually contains
• Why a weather emoji looks different on every device
• What weather emojis mean beyond the forecast
• Emojis for summer and seasonal weather
• Pairing and stacking: simple combinations that work
• Our perspective
• Find any weather emoji faster
• FAQ

Sun and clear sky

These are the emojis for good weather and for heat.

The plain sun ☀️ is the workhorse. It does the job of a forecast (“clear skies all weekend”) and also works as a general sign of positivity. The face version 🌞 adds personality, so it suits greetings and playful posts more than a serious weather update.

If you want to show a sky that is changing, use the three cloud-and-sun combinations in order of how much cloud you want: 🌤️ for a little, ⛅ for a balance, 🌥️ for a lot. A short forecast post reads well with those three alone.

Clouds and overcast

The lone cloud ☁️ is flexible. In a forecast it means overcast. In a caption it often sets a soft, sleepy or reflective tone. The fog emoji 🌫️ suits early-morning commutes, spooky posts and the feeling of being unsure what comes next.

Rain and drizzle

If you need to say it is raining, 🌧️ is the clearest choice. Use ☔ when you want the practical message: take an umbrella. For a tidal surge or surf report, see our page on the water wave emoji, which covers how the symbol is used beyond the beach.

Showers that come and go are best shown with 🌦️, since it combines sun and rain in one symbol.

Snow, ice and cold

Snowflake ❄️ is the quickest way to signal winter. Online it has also picked up a second meaning as a label for someone seen as overly sensitive, so check your audience before using it in a heated thread. For frozen conditions or a cold drink, the ice emoji is the closer fit than the snowflake.

Storms, lightning and wind

Storm emojis are strongest when they are specific. A thunderstorm warning gets ⛈️. A tornado watch gets 🌪️. If a hurricane or typhoon is approaching, 🌀 is the standard symbol, and it works for both because the same spiral shape is used.

The lightning bolt ⚡ is mostly used outside weather: for electricity, fast delivery, sudden energy. Keep that in mind when you want an unambiguous forecast. ⛈️ or 🌩️ tells the reader it is a storm; ⚡ alone might not.

Rainbows, rain-after-sun and sky moments

The rainbow emoji is the one weather symbol with a life well beyond the forecast. It reads as the literal rainbow after a shower, but it also stands for optimism and for Pride, so the surrounding words decide the reading.

What the official Unicode list actually contains

If you are a developer, a designer or just curious, there is an official, narrower definition of “weather symbols”. Unicode groups 12 code points in its Weather symbols subgroup: 🌡 (U+1F321), 🌢 (U+1F322), 🌣 (U+1F323), and the run from 🌤 to 🌬 (U+1F324 to U+1F32C).

Their official names are:

• THERMOMETER
• BLACK DROPLET
• WHITE SUN
• WHITE SUN WITH SMALL CLOUD
• WHITE SUN BEHIND CLOUD
• WHITE SUN BEHIND CLOUD WITH RAIN
• CLOUD WITH RAIN
• CLOUD WITH SNOW
• CLOUD WITH LIGHTNING
• CLOUD WITH TORNADO
• FOG
• WIND BLOWING FACE

Not all of these are emoji. In Unicode’s emoji data file, 🌀 cyclone, 🌡 thermometer and the 🌤 to 🌬 range are marked as emoji, which is why you see them on your keyboard. The black droplet and white sun in the subgroup are plain symbols that most keyboards do not offer as colorful emoji.

The familiar sun ☀ (U+2600) and sun behind cloud ⛅ (U+26C5) sit elsewhere in Unicode, in an older block, and the same data file separates two properties: Emoji, and Emoji_Presentation. That difference explains a common quirk, covered next.

Why a weather emoji looks different on every device

Unicode standardizes the character, its name and its emoji properties. It does not standardize one drawing. Each vendor, such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung, designs its own artwork, and Unicode’s Full Emoji List shows those vendor images side by side.

Three practical consequences follow:

1. The same emoji can feel different. A sun may have a smiling face on one platform and be a plain circle on another. A cloud may be white, grey or outlined.
2. Some symbols can show up as text. A character such as ☀ can appear as a flat black-and-white glyph or as a colorful emoji, depending on variation selectors, the font, the operating system and the app. Adding the emoji variation selector (shown as ☀️) asks for the colorful version.
3. New emoji arrive over time. If a friend sees an empty box instead of your symbol, their device may not support that Unicode version yet.

For posts that matter, such as a client announcement or a weather alert, preview the message on both iPhone and Android before you send it.

What weather emojis mean beyond the forecast

People rarely use these symbols only for weather. Here are the figurative meanings you will meet most.

• 🌀 Cyclone: literally a hurricane, typhoon or cyclone. Figuratively, dizziness, confusion, a mind spinning or a chaotic situation. “Back-to-back meetings 🌀” means overwhelmed, not stormy.
• ☁️ Cloud: overcast skies, but also a sad or distant mood, or cloud storage in a tech context.
• ☔ Umbrella with rain drops: rain, but also being prepared, or a gloomy day.
• ⛈️ Storm: a thunderstorm, or a tense atmosphere or argument.
• 🌈 Rainbow: good things after trouble, joy, diversity, Pride.
• ❄️ Snowflake: winter, or slang for someone seen as fragile.
• 🔥 Fire: heat, but more often “excellent” or “trending”.
• 🌪️ Tornado: a literal twister or a chaotic person or space.
• ⚡ Lightning bolt: speed, energy, power, sudden insight.

Context does the work. A 🌀 next to a hurricane track map is a hurricane. The same symbol after “my brain today” is a joke about being scrambled.

Emojis for summer and seasonal weather

There is no single “summer emoji”, so people build the season from a few pieces.

Summer: ☀️ for the sun, 🌴 palm tree, 🏖️ beach with umbrella, 🍉 watermelon, 🍦 ice cream, 😎 sunglasses, 🕶️, 🌊 waves and 🥵 for heat. A caption like “Beach day ☀️🏖️🍉” reads as summer instantly.

Fall: 🍂 fallen leaves, 🍁 maple leaf, 🎃 pumpkin, 🌬️ for wind, 🌧️ for gray, wet days.

Winter: ❄️, ⛄, 🧣 scarf, 🧤 gloves, ☕ hot drink, 🥶 for the cold.

Spring: 🌦️ for changeable showers, 🌈, 🌱 seedling and 🌷 tulip. Our flower emoji guide lists every bloom with its meaning if you want a full spring set.

Pairing and stacking: simple combinations that work

A single emoji is clear. Two or three can tell a small story. These combinations read well:

• ☀️🌴🏖️: vacation weather
• 🌧️☔📚: a rainy day indoors
• ⛅🌡️: mild, comfortable temperature
• ⛈️⚡🌬️: a serious storm with wind
• ❄️⛄🧣: snow day
• 🌦️🌈: showers followed by a rainbow

Keep it to three. Longer rows can look like decoration and may be read out symbol by symbol by a screen reader, which is tiring for anyone who uses one.

Our perspective

Weather is the easiest emoji category to get wrong without noticing. People pick the symbol that looks right on their own screen and never see how it looks on someone else’s. We built Emoji Trove around the fact that an emoji is a name, a meaning and a picture, and each of the three can change by context.

In our experience the most useful habit is to search by the thing you want to say, not the picture you remember. Type “rain” or “storm” and compare what comes up, rather than scrolling a whole keyboard. Then check the meaning, because the weather symbols are some of the most borrowed in everyday language: the cyclone for being overwhelmed, the cloud for a low mood, the rainbow for optimism.

We also advise a short rule for professional use: when you write about real weather, such as a forecast, a travel notice or a storm update, pick the most literal symbol and keep the words doing the serious work. Save the figurative ones for tone.

— Nkosi

Find any weather emoji faster

This page covers the main symbols, but the library holds more than 1,900 emojis across themes, each with its meaning, Unicode data and one-click copy. If you want a specific one, search the Emoji Trove library by name or browse the sky and weather category, and copy it directly into your message or design.

FAQ

What are the Unicode symbols for weather?

Unicode’s Weather symbols subgroup has 12 code points, running from the thermometer (U+1F321) through the black droplet and white sun to the wind blowing face (U+1F32C). Other weather emojis, such as ☀ (U+2600) and ⛅ (U+26C5), live in older Unicode blocks. You can see the full group on Unicode’s own listing.

What does the 🌀 emoji mean?

Literally it is a cyclone, so it stands for hurricanes, typhoons and similar storms. In casual chat it usually means dizziness, confusion or a chaotic situation. The words around it tell you which reading is intended.

Which emojis mean summer?

No single emoji means summer, but ☀️ is the core. People add 🌴, 🏖️, 🍉, 😎 and 🌊 to build a summer feel. The sun alone often just says “nice weather”.

Why does a weather emoji look different on my friend’s phone?

Unicode defines the character and its name, while Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and others each draw their own artwork. Some symbols, like ☀, can also show as text or as a colorful emoji depending on the font and app. Older devices may show a blank box if they do not support a newer emoji.

Are there climate emojis as well as weather emojis?

There is no separate climate category. People use the weather set, such as 🌡️ for rising temperatures, 🔥 for heat, 🌊 for sea level and flooding, and 🌍 for the planet. Pair them with words, since the symbols alone do not carry a climate message.

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