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How to Add Weather to Google Calendar

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This guide will show you how to subscribe to a free calendar service (no sign up required) which will display the weather for each day in your Google Calendar.

Background

There are two services that provide this functionality, but as of late, one seems to be much more reliable than the other. Our suggestion is to try out the first one, which doesn’t really have a name so I’m calling it Weather Forecast with Icons. If it’s not to your liking, you can try out the other by clicking here (or just scroll down) for instructions on setting up WebCal.fi – which isn’t quite as reliable. Update: webcal.fi is moving to webcal.guru and is now a paid service (approx. $6 USD/year). So now more than ever, I’d recommend trying “Weather Forecast with Icons” first – it’s free and reliable.

There are a couple of differences between the two – Weather Forecast with Icons uses emojis ⛅️ ?️ ☀️ ?️, WebCal.fi does not. WebCal.fi offers a bit more information – “Heat index”, “Wind chill” and “Dew point” are some examples.

Adding the Weather to Google Calendar using Weather Forecast with Icons

  1. One of the great things about this method is that it’s SUPER easy to setup. Head over to the Weather Forecast with Icons page and enter in the name of your city.

  2. Then decide if you want to use Celsius or Fahrenheit and whether you’d like to have the temperature represented by the daily high or the low/high range.

  3. Finally, click the big Add to your Calendar button.

  4. You’ll be redirected to your Google Calendar and an Add calendar pop-up will appear. Click the Add button.

  5. Now you’ll have a 14 day forecast in your Google Calendar!

  6. If you click one of the weather entries on your calendar you’ll be presented with a detailed list of weather attributes for that day.

  7. That’s it – you’re all done! If you find the “Weather Forecast with Icons” service useful, consider throwing the developer a few dollars via the “Make a donation” link.

 

Adding the Weather to Google Calendar with WebCal.fi

Update: webcal.fi is moving to webcal.guru and is now a paid service (approx. $6 USD/year).

  1. Start out by heading over to WebCal.fi (link opens in a new tab/window) and select the Science tab.

  2. Scroll down to the Weather section and click the link titled Select a location

  3. Navigate to the location of the weather you want to monitor on your Google Calendar. Use the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons when necessary (a lot) and when you’ve found the location, click it to put a ‘scope’ on it. Now click the Use this location button.

  4. Select the Rename link.

  5. Give the name something a little more user-friendly for your calendar then click the Use this name button.

  6. Select the Settings link.

  7. From here you can choose between having your calendar display info in Fahrenheit or Celsius and/or mph vs. km/h (or even m/s). Finally, click the Subscribe Weather button.

  8. Your Google Calendar will open and display a confirmation box. Click the Add button.

  9. Ta-da! You now have a 5 day forecast of the weather for the location you specified!

  10. Click on one of the weather items for a full description of the weather forecast.

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  • webcal.fi is going away soon. They are asking people to subscribe to webcal.guru, which requires a paid account for weather. :(

    • Thanks for the heads up! I'd recommend "Weather Forecast with Icons" above webcal.fi anyway, now even more. I've been assured the core functionality of Weather Forecast with Icons will remain free (at some point they may introduce additional features for $, but the main service will remain free).

      Perhaps the service replacing webcal.fi will at least be much more stable...

  • 2020-09-09 - Tried both WeatherUnderground and WebCal.fi methods.

    WeatherUnderground does not seem to work for me.

    WebCal.fi works! Thank you very much.

  • The calendar shows in my "other calendars" but none of the weather is showing on the actual calendar :-(
    This did NOT work for me.

    • Were you trying WunderGround or WebCal.fi? WebCal.fi is up and working right now - try refreshing the calendar if that's the one you opted for.

  • Thank you so much for this. I really wanted weather on my samsung 'always on display'. I'd tried weatherbug and weatherunderground, but they were always pushed out of my status bar by other notifications. This solves my problem completely by making weather a daily calendar event.

  • WebCal is not working for me. It says I have an invalid IP address and when I click on select location, it just sends me to the top of the same page. My antivirus is off and there is no pop-up blocking so I'm not sure what's up. I also have tried in putting my longitude and latitude and it did add to my google calendar, but it is not updating with future dates, just the original first five days.

  • For the WebCal- it's working for me as of Feb, 2020 but it needs to be added manually.

    Go through all the steps and click ''Subscribe Weather''
    A popup should open in google calendar, copy the website (URL) address in that popup and then click ''Cancel'' to close the popup.

    In google Calendar click settings > add calendar from url> paste the address you copied > click add calendar.

  • Hi,

    Thank you for sharing this info. However, the default settings only display weather information for the current week. Is it possible to extend this to a month?

  • I tried adding the WebCal.fi weather calendar using Opera and Chrome browsers and the URL link page opened and then instantly closed a split second later. Only when I used Microsoft Edge browser could I get the page to open and stay open long enough to copy the URL into my Google calendar. After that everything worked fine. Thanks for the help.

  • I followed the instructions for the webcal.fi calendar and was able to get it in Google Calendar but the forecast is consistently 10 degrees F too low. I put in the right location. I notice that the settings show GMT 0:00, whereas I'm -6 GMT, but I don't know if that matters. The forecast certainly is even more off for Greenwich UK.
    I've re-done the calendar from webcal.fi several times and no change.
    Any help?

  • Today WebCal.fi works perfectly and these instructions are good.

    Wunderground displayed no content with the two different zip codes I tried in RI.

    • WebCal.fi
      How did you do that? I followed the instructions until I got to "Select a location" A blank map appeared. Tried several times. Then I found my lat and longitude and manually put that in and NOTHING happened. I had Wunderground.com for 2 weeks in the summer and has never come back. I tried getting it back today and NO GO.
      Why won't a map appear on WebCal?????

      • Is the blank map colored blue? If so, you're probably looking at the ocean (possibly somewhere off the coast of Africa). Zoom out until you see land, then drag the map to your location. I hope this helps.

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Published by
Ross McKillop
November 30, 2020 3:29 pm