BOM Weather
Australia's weather app
Free
6.8.2for iPhone, iPad and more
9.3
237 Ratings
Bureau of Meteorology
Developer
62 MB
Size
Apr 30, 2024
Update Date
Weather
Category
4+
Age Rating
Age Rating
BOM Weather Screenshots
About BOM Weather
Australia's official weather app from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).
Download the BOM Weather app for access to hourly and 7-day forecasts, radar and warnings – wherever you are.
It's free and ad free on mobile and tablet devices, with widgets so you can see the weather at a glance.
The BOM Weather app includes:
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, 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)
Rain map
- See rain 90 minutes into the past and future
- Pan and zoom to anywhere in Australia
- Your location is marked on the map
- View optimal radar coverage areas
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
Download the BOM Weather app for access to hourly and 7-day forecasts, radar and warnings – wherever you are.
It's free and ad free on mobile and tablet devices, with widgets so you can see the weather at a glance.
The BOM Weather app includes:
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, 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)
Rain map
- See rain 90 minutes into the past and future
- Pan and zoom to anywhere in Australia
- Your location is marked on the map
- View optimal radar coverage areas
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
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What's New in the Latest Version 6.8.2
Last updated on Apr 30, 2024
Old Versions
This release enables coastal hazard warnings and notifications. They alert you to dangerous surf and abnormally high tides. You're already subscribed if you get our severe weather warnings. You can opt out if coastal hazards don't matter to you.
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Version History
6.8.2
Apr 30, 2024
This release enables coastal hazard warnings and notifications. They alert you to dangerous surf and abnormally high tides. You're already subscribed if you get our severe weather warnings. You can opt out if coastal hazards don't matter to you.
6.8.0
Feb 19, 2024
This release improves Use my current location, navigation and the map. You'll see Map instead of Rain in the bottom menu. We've made it easier to select layers to show on the map, and confirm your selection in a heading above the map legend. You can now access the main menu from the Warnings screen.
6.7.1
Nov 9, 2023
Fixes a bug that gave some customers repeated introduction to new app features. There's also a new message that can appear at the bottom of the app screen. It means we can alert you to issues or news – for example, outages.
6.6.0
Aug 22, 2023
This release brings your wind speed and dark/light mode options into a new Settings screen. It also fixes some 'location not found' issues.
6.5.2
Jul 27, 2023
This update gives you a new home screen widget, so you can see the forecast by the hour for your chosen location. In Past, you also get the latest recorded highs and lows, including temperature, wind gusts and total rain.
6.4.0
Jun 15, 2023
This update delivers widgets for iOS lock and home screens. Add one or multiple widgets for locations around Australia. We've also fixed bugs and improved performance.
6.3.0
May 3, 2023
This update delivers on customer requests to get notifications for up to 3 locations and see rain as a range in the 7-day forecast. We've also made hourly and daily rain information consistent, fixed bugs and improved performance.
6.2.0
Feb 14, 2023
This update gives you hourly humidity forecasts and fixes the rain map slider. Tides information is easier to find. Also delivers bug fixes, styling updates and performance improvements.
6.1.0
Dec 6, 2022
This release introduces rain forecast and other changes to the rain radar map. Users can now seamlessly view:
- 90 minutes observed (past) rainfall
- 90 minutes forecast (future) rainfall
Other radar map changes:
- 'Radar' label in the bottom navigation renamed to 'Rain'
- slightly darker base map for land and sea
- new slider to control the rain animation playback
- the addition of rainfall legend, presented in mm/hr
- radar outage message's containing more detail
- 90 minutes observed (past) rainfall
- 90 minutes forecast (future) rainfall
Other radar map changes:
- 'Radar' label in the bottom navigation renamed to 'Rain'
- slightly darker base map for land and sea
- new slider to control the rain animation playback
- the addition of rainfall legend, presented in mm/hr
- radar outage message's containing more detail
5.4.0
Oct 4, 2022
This release includes:
- new heatwave warning and push notification option
- performance improvements
- new heatwave warning and push notification option
- performance improvements
5.3.0
Sep 6, 2022
In this release you will find:
- updated colours for the new national Fire Danger Ratings System
- fix for flood watch formatting
- fix to address an issue with the 'use my location' functionality
- updated colours for the new national Fire Danger Ratings System
- fix for flood watch formatting
- fix to address an issue with the 'use my location' functionality
5.2.0
Aug 23, 2022
Thanks for your feedback. We keep working hard to introduce new features and fix any bugs in the app.
In this release you will notice:
* new past weather screen showing 72 hours of temperature, wind and rain observations
* update to the naming of bottom navigation items - replacing "Weather" with "Home" and adding "Past" for the past weather screen
* customer satisfaction popup (displayed at various times as you use the app)
In this release you will notice:
* new past weather screen showing 72 hours of temperature, wind and rain observations
* update to the naming of bottom navigation items - replacing "Weather" with "Home" and adding "Past" for the past weather screen
* customer satisfaction popup (displayed at various times as you use the app)
5.1.0
Jul 12, 2022
This release includes:
- dark mode option allowing user to set display appearance or use device's system settings
- rainfall presentation update in the today, hourly and daily forecast sections
- new bottom navigation with quick links to weather, radar and warnings screens
- various bug fixes
- dark mode option allowing user to set display appearance or use device's system settings
- rainfall presentation update in the today, hourly and daily forecast sections
- new bottom navigation with quick links to weather, radar and warnings screens
- various bug fixes
5.0.5
May 18, 2022
This release includes:
- warning push notifications for one location including - Fire Weather, Flood, Severe Thunderstorm, Severe Weather, Tropical Cyclone and Tsunami
- onboarding page for new features
- updated terms and conditions acceptance page
- various bug fixes
- warning push notifications for one location including - Fire Weather, Flood, Severe Thunderstorm, Severe Weather, Tropical Cyclone and Tsunami
- onboarding page for new features
- updated terms and conditions acceptance page
- various bug fixes
4.8.16
Mar 16, 2022
This release includes bug fixes and performance improvements.
4.6.22
Dec 2, 2021
- bug fix to better identify when the device is offline
4.6.19
Nov 11, 2021
This release includes:
- updated interaction between different screens within the app
- refined menu layout
- improved error handling when there is no internet connection
- UV data now shows values past 11 and sun protection "not required" wording updated
- simplified feedback form
- general usability and performance improvements
- updated interaction between different screens within the app
- refined menu layout
- improved error handling when there is no internet connection
- UV data now shows values past 11 and sun protection "not required" wording updated
- simplified feedback form
- general usability and performance improvements
4.4.14
Apr 29, 2021
This release includes:
- Landscape mode on mobile devices
- Radar outage notice
- Retention of user preferences between sessions for items such as knots & km/h and radar coverage toggle
- Location detection fixes
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
- Landscape mode on mobile devices
- Radar outage notice
- Retention of user preferences between sessions for items such as knots & km/h and radar coverage toggle
- Location detection fixes
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
4.1.0
Jan 18, 2021
This major release includes marine data for those locations close to water to help you plan your coastal and local waters activities, plus moon phases and some bug fixes and performance improvements.
In this release:
- Moon phase
- Hourly wind gust (in km and knots – tap to change)
- Three-hourly total wave height
- Daily waters forecast, including tides times
- Enhanced last update data, including observation time and location
In this release:
- Moon phase
- Hourly wind gust (in km and knots – tap to change)
- Three-hourly total wave height
- Daily waters forecast, including tides times
- Enhanced last update data, including observation time and location
3.12.0
Dec 21, 2020
- update to refresh time of state warnings list
- removed "Moon" label as data was not ready to be displayed
- bug fixes and performance improvements
- removed "Moon" label as data was not ready to be displayed
- bug fixes and performance improvements
3.8.0
Nov 26, 2020
Changes in this release include:
- performance enhancements and bug fixes
- update to privacy policy noting use of location
- performance enhancements and bug fixes
- update to privacy policy noting use of location
3.5.0
Nov 11, 2020
Changes in this release include:
- radar coverage toggle added to the radar map so users can see optimal coverage area
- pull down to refresh introduced
- usability improvement for warnings detail page to show arrows for horizontal scrolling
- various bug fixes, accessibility, and performance improvements
- accessibility fixes on the onboarding screen and feedback page
- reinstated rubber banding effect on iOS
- radar coverage toggle added to the radar map so users can see optimal coverage area
- pull down to refresh introduced
- usability improvement for warnings detail page to show arrows for horizontal scrolling
- various bug fixes, accessibility, and performance improvements
- accessibility fixes on the onboarding screen and feedback page
- reinstated rubber banding effect on iOS
3.1.4
Oct 6, 2020
Changes in this release include:
- various bug fixes, accessibility, and performance improvements
- new choice boxes in the hourly section for Temperature & rain and Wind
- state based warnings accessed from the Warnings menu item
- radar outages notifications shown in the radar for locations that have short term radar outages
- improved unsave/remove favourite functionality
- increased contrast on the snow icon
- build number is included for support in the About page
- various bug fixes, accessibility, and performance improvements
- new choice boxes in the hourly section for Temperature & rain and Wind
- state based warnings accessed from the Warnings menu item
- radar outages notifications shown in the radar for locations that have short term radar outages
- improved unsave/remove favourite functionality
- increased contrast on the snow icon
- build number is included for support in the About page
3.1.3
Aug 25, 2020
- New hourly feels like data
- Fix to stop observation content being cut-off
- General performance improvements and bug fixes
- Fix to stop observation content being cut-off
- General performance improvements and bug fixes
3.1.2
Jul 28, 2020
- Various performance improvements and bug fixes
- Sticky header for hourly forecast table
- Sun protection recommended wording update
- Fix a bug that caused menu flashing when the app loads
- Fix iOS update reminder App Store link
- Sticky header for hourly forecast table
- Sun protection recommended wording update
- Fix a bug that caused menu flashing when the app loads
- Fix iOS update reminder App Store link
BOM Weather FAQ
BOM Weather is available in regions other than the following restricted countries:
Burkina Faso,Finland,Fiji,Madagascar,Serbia,Kosovo,Benin,Myanmar,Qatar,Slovenia,Bhutan,Denmark,Grenada,Saudi Arabia,South Africa,Macao,Chile,Colombia,Czech Republic,Iraq,Kenya,Cambodia,Tunisia,Tonga,Guyana,St. Lucia,Mali,Malta,Cape Verde,Indonesia,Moldova,Oman,Poland,Vietnam,Algeria,Jamaica,Kyrgyzstan,Congo,Dominica,Hungary,Mozambique,Sao Tome & Principe,Anguilla,Libya,Montenegro,Russia,Trinidad and Tobago,Tanzania,Antigua And Barbuda,Bulgaria,Uganda,Ecuador,Lithuania,Mauritius,Niger,Nauru,Peru,Suriname,St. Vincent & The Grenadines,Azerbaijan,Bosnia & Herzegovina,Mongolia,Nepal,Georgia,Luxembourg,Senegal,Thailand,Afghanistan,Albania,El Salvador,Swaziland,Uzbekistan,Micronesia,St. Kitts and Nevis,Cayman Islands,Kazakhstan,Mauritania,Seychelles,Sierra Leone,Romania,United Arab Emirates,Bermuda,Montserrat,Mexico,Nicaragua,Papua New Guinea,Slovakia,Uruguay,Argentina,Bahamas,Belize,Lebanon,Zimbabwe,Armenia,Bolivia,Brazil,Estonia,Kuwait,Tajikistan,Taiwan,Maldives,Norway,Philippines,Portugal,Sweden,Costa Rica,Egypt,Guatemala,Croatia,Malawi,Congo, Democratic Republic,Gabon,Lao Peoples Democratic Republic,Liberia,Morocco,Panama,British Virgin Islands,Austria,Botswana,Gambia,Nigeria,Pakistan,Yemen,Barbados,Bahrain,Solomon Islands,Turkmenistan,Ukraine,Zambia,Palau,Belgium,Cote Divoire,Ghana,Greece,Guinea-bissau,Honduras,Macedonia,Paraguay,Brunei Darussalam,Cameroon,Iceland,Sri Lanka,Namibia,Cyprus,Jordan,Turks and Caicos,Venezuela,Israel,Turkey,Vanuatu,Angola,Dominican Republic,Chad,Belarus,Latvia,Rwanda
BOM Weather supports English
Click here to learn how to download BOM Weather in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of BOM Weather.
iPhone
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
