6 Best Weather Effect Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Weather Effect has 4,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 6 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 6 closest alternatives to Weather Effect
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WP Snow Effect
Closest match4.9 (388) 1,000+ active installsAdd nice looking animation effect of falling snow to your Wordpress site and enjoy winter and Christmas.
Shares the christmas, snow tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated December 5, 2025.
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4.8 (29) 2,000+ active installsChristmasify is an easy-to-use Christmas plugin that can add snow, santa, decorations, music and a lovely Christmas font to your WordPress website.
Shares the christmas, snow tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since November 27, 2024.
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4.8 (205) 600+ active installsLoyalty + Referral + Rewards + Birthdays and Anniversaries + Giveaways + Contests + Competitions + Sweepstakes. Selling on ETSY? Reward points for yo …
Shares the christmas tag on WordPress.org. 600+ installs against 4,000+, last updated 4 days ago.
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4.1 (24) 4,000+ active installswp-forecast is a highly customizable plugin for wordpress, showing weather-data from open-meteo.com and/or openweathermap.com.
Shares the weather tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 21 days ago.
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Location Weather
Paid version availableLocation Weather – WordPress Weather Forecast, Air Quality & Weather Widget
4.5 (103) 10,000+ active installsReal-time Weather, Forecast, AQI, Weather Maps, Historical Data, Sun & Moon Times, AI Weather Assistant & Search – Block, Shortcode, Elementor.
Shares the weather tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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Weather Atlas Widget
4.1 (41) 8,000+ active installsThe Weather Widget with the Most Active Installations. Highly customizable, simple & beautiful. Detailed current weather, hourly & daily forecasts
Shares the weather tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since July 4, 2025.
Switching from Weather Effect: common questions
What is the best alternative to Weather Effect?
WP Snow Effect is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 1,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Weather Effect alternative has the most users?
Location Weather, with 10,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Weather Effect alternative is rated highest?
WP Snow Effect, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 388 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Weather Effect alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Weather Effect score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Weather Effect on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
WP Snow Effect is the closest match to Weather Effect by the data we track, and Location Weather has the widest reach with 10,000+ active installs. Gratisfaction- Loyalty, Rewards , Referral, Birthday and Giveaway Program shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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