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BOM Weather app

BOM Weather app icon showing a blue background, white 'BOM' text on bottom half and yellow sun on top half.

Look for this icon on the App Store or Google Play

Australia's official weather app

Hourly and 7 day forecasts, radar and warnings – wherever you are.

BOM Weather is free and ad free on mobile and tablet devices. It features:

  • widgets so you can see the weather at a glance
  • offline mode for moments when you don't have internet.
Daily forecast for Apollo Bay in BOM Weather app on iPhone screen, with a weather warning, temperature minimum and maximum and feels like, possible rainfall, precis text, hourly forecasts and menu including map at bottom of the screen.

The BOM Weather app shows weather for your location

Current weather

  • Temperature and icon
  • 'Feels like' temperature
  • Rain
  • Wind speed, direction and gust (in knots and km/h)
  • Humidity
  • Rainfall since 9 am
  • Local text forecast

Forecasts

  • Hourly forecast temperature, humidity, dew point, wind, gust, and rain for the next 72 hours
  • 7-day forecast
  • Total wave height and direction (for relevant locations)
  • Sunrise and sunset times
  • UV and moon phase
  • Fire danger rating
  • Waters forecast and summary for the coming days, including tides (for relevant locations)

Map

  • See rain 90 minutes into the past and future
  • View active warnings and access warning details
  • Pan and zoom to anywhere in Australia
  • Your location is marked on the map
  • See optimal radar coverage areas while viewing rain

Warning notifications

  • Warning notifications for up to 3 locations around Australia
  • Includes notifications for coastal hazards, fire weather, flood, heatwave, marine wind, severe thunderstorm, severe weather, tropical cyclone, and tsunami

Past weather

  • Latest highs and lows, including highest and lowest temperature, highest wind gust and total rain
  • 72 hours of temperature, wind and rain

Locations

  • Use your current location
  • Save your favourite locations
  • Search for any location in Australia
  • View your recent location

Widgets

  • See weather details for your current or selected location
  • Provides current, minimum and maximum temperature and more
  • Add one or many widgets for locations around Australia

Water Storage app

From 20 August 2025 the Bureau will retire the Water Storage app.

Once retired, the app will:

  • no longer be available to download from the App Store
  • stop serving new data.

Water storage data is available in alternative Bureau products on our current website: