10 Best Weather Map Widget Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Weather Map Widget has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 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 10 closest alternatives to Weather Map Widget
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wp-forecast
Closest match4.1 (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 forecast, weather tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 21 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 forecast, weather tags on WordPress.org. About 2.7 times the installs, no update since July 4, 2025.
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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 3.3 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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Weather Effect
Paid version available4.5 (30) 4,000+ active installsAdd animated falling effects like snow, rain, autumn leaves, and seasonal decorations to your website.
Shares the weather tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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4.6 (512) 30,000+ active installsAre your Google Maps slow? Try Map Widget for Google Maps. You'll have a fast Google Maps widget with a thumbnail & lightbox map in minutes!
Shares the map tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 22 days ago.
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4.9 (58) 30,000+ active installsInteractive maps and markers on your posts and pages with simple shortcodes.
Shares the map tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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4.6 (252) 20,000+ active installsGoogle Maps with markers, locations and clusterization, KML layers and filters. Custom Google map markers with text, images, videos, links.
Shares the map tag on WordPress.org. About 6.7 times the installs, last updated 3 days ago.
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Maps Plugin using Google Maps for WordPress – WP Google Map
4.8 (172) 10,000+ active installsGoogle Map plugin for WordPress is very Simple, light-weight and Easy to use Google Custom Map with markers in Posts, Pages, Sidebar as shortcode.
Shares the map tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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4.6 (21) 20,000+ active installsMap block for Gutenberg editor powered by Google Maps. Simple. Fast. Just a map block.
Shares the map tag on WordPress.org. About 6.7 times the installs, last updated 22 days ago.
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Open User Map – Interactive Leaflet Maps
5.0 (68) 10,000+ active installsCreate custom interactive maps with free Leaflet-based styles, no Google Maps API key, frontend marker submissions, search and filters.
Shares the map tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
Switching from Weather Map Widget: common questions
What is the best alternative to Weather Map Widget?
wp-forecast is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 4,000+ active installs with a 4.1 out of 5 rating.
Which Weather Map Widget alternative has the most users?
Maps Widget for Google Maps, with 30,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Weather Map Widget alternative is rated highest?
Open User Map, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 68 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Weather Map Widget 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 Map Widget 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 Map Widget 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-forecast is the closest match to Weather Map Widget by the data we track, and Maps Widget for Google Maps has the widest reach with 30,000+ active installs. Easy Google Maps shipped the most recent release, on September 4, 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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