Hyperlocal Weather
The rain gauge app that lives in your pocket
Hyperlocal Weather is a virtual rain gauge — your phone becomes the gauge, so there's nothing to mount in the garden, empty or read by hand. Get measured rainfall totals, a calendar of every wet day, an accumulation map and home-screen widgets. A free rain gauge app for iPhone and Android, worldwide.
Everything a garden gauge can't do
Your gauge remembers everything
A physical gauge shows you today at best. Your digital rain gauge keeps a full record — a month-at-a-time heatmap where darker days mean more rain, with a total and hourly breakdown for any day you tap.
- Automatic logging — nothing to write down or reset.
- Calendar heatmap to scan wet and dry stretches at a glance.
- Year-to-date running total, always up to date.
A gauge for every backyard
One gauge in the garden tells you about one spot. The app's accumulation map shows how much rain fell across the whole area over the last 24 hours, so you can see whether the shower soaked your street or drifted past it.
- 24-hour accumulation painted across the map.
- Pinpointed to your exact coordinates, not the airport.
- Zoom in and out from your street to the region.
A full weather app around your gauge
Because your gauge is on your phone, it comes with everything else too: current conditions with full metrics, next-hour minute-by-minute rain, live radar, lightning, hurricanes and air quality — all pinpointed to where you are.
- Current conditions with temperature, wind, humidity and more.
- Home-screen widgets so your latest total is a glance away.
- Radar, lightning & air quality built into the same app.
A rain gauge app without borders
Most rain gauge apps are iPhone-only, US-only, or both. Hyperlocal Weather runs on iPhone and Android — with standalone Apple Watch and Wear OS apps too — and measures rainfall around the world, so the same virtual gauge follows you wherever you live or travel.
What makes a good rain gauge app?
A traditional rain gauge is a simple tube in the garden that collects rain so you can read how much fell. It works, but it only covers one spot, has to be emptied, freezes in winter and tells you nothing while you're away. A rain gauge app replaces that tube with software: instead of catching drops, it estimates the rainfall at your exact coordinates and shows you the accumulated total on screen. The result is a digital rain gauge that is always with you, keeps its own history and can watch several places at once.
How the virtual rain gauge measures rainfall
Hyperlocal Weather pinpoints your location and blends multiple data sources — including Foreca, Apple WeatherKit and real weather-station observations — to produce hyper-local rain totals for the last 12h, 24h, 48h, 72h, 7 days and year to date. It's the same engine behind our detailed rain totals view and the live rainfall radar, so the rain that has fallen and the rain that's coming both live in one place.
Is a rain gauge app free?
The Hyperlocal Weather app is free to download on iPhone and Android, and the gauge, history and forecasts are all included. If you want the gauge on your wrist there's a separate, optional Apple Watch app that is a paid download. A digital rain gauge is ideal for:
- Gardeners checking whether the beds still need watering.
- Growers and smallholders tracking rainfall across the season.
- Contractors and landscapers judging if the ground is workable.
- Weather watchers who just want to know how much that storm dropped.
Curious how the concept stacks up as a modern take on the classic gauge? See our rain drop gauge page.
Rain gauge app questions
What is a virtual rain gauge app?
A virtual rain gauge app turns your phone into the rain gauge, so you don't need any hardware in the garden. Hyperlocal Weather estimates the rainfall at your exact coordinates from radar, real weather-station observations and forecast models, then shows the accumulated totals just like reading a physical gauge — on both iPhone and Android.
Is the rain gauge app free?
Yes. The Hyperlocal Weather app is free to download on both the App Store and Google Play, and the rain gauge, rainfall history, radar and forecasts are included. There is a separate, optional Apple Watch app that is a paid download for people who want the gauge on their wrist.
Can a rain gauge app replace a physical rain gauge?
For most people, yes. A digital rain gauge never overflows, never needs emptying, records history automatically and works while you're away from home. It measures rainfall for your exact location and can track several saved places at once, which a single garden gauge cannot do.
Does the rain gauge app work on Android and worldwide?
Yes. Unlike US-only rain gauge apps, Hyperlocal Weather runs on both iPhone and Android and measures rainfall worldwide — including the UK, Ireland, Canada, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the Nordics, Japan, Singapore and Australia.
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Put a rain gauge in your pocket
Get Hyperlocal Weather and turn your phone into a virtual rain gauge — iPhone, Android and worldwide.