Where is it sunny on Saturday?
Most weather apps answer what, you name a place, they draw you the sky. Elseweather answers where. Pan the map, set the conditions you’re after, and the cities that match are the ones left on the screen.
The map is the search
Pan to a region and the largest cities in view pick up a temperature, a condition and a fortnight of trend. Set a filter and the ones that don’t match drop away, so what’s left is an answer rather than a picture.
- Sunny
- Partly cloudy
- Cloudy
- Fog
- Rain
- Snow
- Storm
Conditions, not just places
Pick the conditions you’ll accept, drag a temperature band, cap the rain chance, the wind or the air quality index. They combine, and they’re read over whichever days you point them at, all of them, or any one.
Now, then fourteen days
A slider steps from the live reading out to a fortnight ahead. The map redraws for the day you’re on, and a filter can sit on a window of days that isn’t the one you’re looking at.
Tap a city for the rest
A scrubbable chart, a day-by-day table that unfolds into hours, rainfall in millimetres, wind, humidity and air quality, as far ahead as the forecast actually reaches, and no further.
Layers over the top
Temperature, precipitation, wind and pressure as raster layers under the annotations, for the days the tile server publishes.
Widgets
The Here widget shows the conditions where you are and the hours coming up, on the home screen or the lock screen. It takes its own reading in the background, and a tap opens the full forecast.
140,992 cities
Search them by name to jump the map. The list ships inside the app, so searching it never leaves your phone.
No account, no tracking
There’s no sign-in, no profile and no third-party analytics or advertising code. The app counts how many people open it, with a random ID that identifies nobody; nothing is watching which buttons you press.
Elseweather Plus
See the whole fortnight
The first three days stay free for everyone. Plus opens all 14, on the map, in the search filter and in every city you tap.
- All 14 days on the slider, not just the next three.
- Search for conditions across the whole fortnight.
- The full day-by-day breakdown for any city you tap.
Why this costs money
Elseweather is a one-person project. Every forecast on the map is a paid API call, so Plus is what keeps them coming and what keeps the app free of ads, accounts and tracking. It’s a monthly subscription, bought and cancelled through Apple, and the price is shown before you buy. Cancel whenever you like; the first three days stay free either way.
Questions
Is there a weather app where you search by conditions instead of by place?
That is what Elseweather does. Every other weather app starts with a place and draws you its sky; this one starts with the weather and gives you the places. You pan the map to a region, say which conditions you’ll accept, and the cities that match are the ones left on the screen.
How do I find where it will be sunny this weekend?
Pan the map to as much of the world as you’re willing to travel across, open the search panel, select the sunny chip and drag the day window onto Saturday and Sunday. The cities that don’t match drop away. Set the window to all if you want both days sunny, or any if either will do.
Can I search for a city with snow next week, or one with wind for kitesurfing?
Yes, snow and storm are two of the seven condition chips, and there are caps for wind, rain chance and the air quality index alongside a temperature band. They combine, so “above 15°, dry, and under 20 km/h somewhere on the Adriatic next Thursday” is a single search.
Is there an alternative to Windy or Ventusky that finds a place rather than showing one?
Windy, Ventusky and Windguru are visualisations: you already know the place, and the map draws its overlay beautifully. Elseweather uses the map as the input to a search instead. It has the raster layers too, temperature, precipitation, wind and pressure, but they sit under the answer rather than being it.
Can I filter a map by temperature, rain and wind at the same time?
All six criteria are optional and combine with AND: a temperature band, a maximum rain chance, a maximum wind speed, a maximum air quality index, and the condition chips, which combine with each other as OR. They’re read over whichever days you point them at rather than only the day you’re looking at.
How far ahead does the forecast go?
Fourteen days, plus the live reading. The first three days are free for everyone; Plus opens the rest on the map, in the filter and in every city you tap. Nothing is invented past where the forecast actually reaches, a day with no reading is shown as having none.
How many cities does it cover?
140,992. The list ships inside the app rather than being looked up, so searching it by name never leaves your phone, and the map annotates the largest cities in whatever region you’ve panned to.
Does it run on a Mac or an iPad?
Yes. It’s one app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and the Mac version is a real window rather than a phone in a box, the map fills it and the controls are sized for a pointer.
Is there a home screen or lock screen widget?
Yes. The Here widget shows the conditions where you are — the temperature, the sky, and the hours coming up with the chance of rain under them — in two home screen sizes and the three lock screen ones. It takes its own reading in the background rather than showing whatever it saw the last time you opened the app, and a tap opens the full forecast for wherever you’re standing. It isn’t behind the subscription.
Does it need an account, and does it track me?
No sign-in, no profile, and no third-party analytics or advertising code. The app does tell its own server that it opened, so I can count roughly how many people use it, and every request carries a random ID made up on your device that identifies nobody. When the app or its widget looks up where you are, those coordinates go to that same server, which fetches that one forecast and keeps no record of it. The privacy page says what happens in full.
What does it cost?
The app is free and the first three days of forecast stay free for everyone. Elseweather Plus is a monthly subscription that opens all fourteen; it’s bought and cancelled through Apple, and the price is shown before you buy. Every forecast on the map is a paid API call, which is what the subscription pays for, that, and keeping the app free of ads, accounts and tracking.