Current weather and forecasts in the GNOME Shell top bar, for as many locations as you like.
- Current conditions: temperature, feels like, humidity, pressure, visibility, wind, sunrise and sunset
- Hour-by-hour forecast for up to 48 hours and a daily forecast for up to 10 days
- Search and add cities by name, and switch between them from the menu or by scrolling over the panel button
- Optional current location, detected with GeoClue and updated as you move
- Optional alert when rain, snow or a thunderstorm is forecast within the next two hours
- Choose what the panel shows and where, units, 12/24-hour time, and symbolic or full-color icons
- Translated into 32 languages, following your system language automatically
Supported GNOME Shell versions: 49, 50
This is a fork of Neroth/gnome-shell-extension-weather,
ported to the module system and APIs GNOME Shell has used since version 45,
and to libgweather-4 (which dropped the GWeather.LocationEntry widget the
original relied on for its "add city" dialog — replaced here with a
from-scratch location search).
Install it from extensions.gnome.org, either in your browser or from the Extension Manager app.
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/mlkonrad/wetter.git
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Copy to your GNOME extensions directory:
cp -r wetter ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/wetter@mlkonrad.github.com -
Compile the settings schema:
glib-compile-schemas ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/wetter@mlkonrad.github.com/schemas/ -
Restart GNOME Shell and enable the extension:
gnome-extensions enable wetter@mlkonrad.github.com
Open Wetter Settings from the panel dropdown (or gnome-extensions prefs wetter@mlkonrad.github.com) to add/remove locations, switch units, and
change how the panel indicator looks.
Turn on Current Location in the Locations section of settings to add a selectable entry that tracks where you are, via GeoClue, alongside any cities you've added by hand. It refreshes itself automatically as your location changes — no manual re-adding a city after a trip.
If no location has been added yet, Current Location is turned on by default; switch it off in settings to use only the cities you add. The location is detected by GeoClue at city-level accuracy (GNOME lists the request as coming from GNOME Shell, since extensions run inside it). The selected city is sent to the weather services libgweather uses — MET Norway, OpenWeatherMap and METAR airport reports — to fetch its forecast.
Wetter's interface is fully translated into 32 languages — every one of them covers all 133 strings, with nothing left untranslated:
Arabic (ar) |
Dutch (nl) |
Italian (it) |
Romanian (ro) |
Basque (eu) |
Estonian (et) |
Japanese (ja) |
Russian (ru) |
Bulgarian (bg) |
Finnish (fi) |
Lithuanian (lt) |
Slovak (sk) |
Catalan (ca) |
French (fr) |
Norwegian Bokmål (nb) |
Spanish (es) |
Chinese, Simplified (zh_CN) |
German (de) |
Persian (fa) |
Swedish (sv) |
Chinese, Traditional (zh_TW) |
Greek (el) |
Polish (pl) |
Turkish (tr) |
Czech (cs) |
Hebrew (he) |
Portuguese (pt) |
Ukrainian (uk) |
Danish (da) |
Hungarian (hu) |
Portuguese, Brazilian (pt_BR) |
Vietnamese (vi) |
There is no language setting. Wetter follows your system language: GNOME Shell loads the matching catalog for the session locale, so changing your language in Settings changes the extension too, after a log out and back in.
Regional variants fall back to the base language, so the list covers more
locales than it lists — de_AT and de_CH use the German translation,
pt_PT the European Portuguese one. A language with no translation here
shows the original English strings rather than failing.
Some of these started as translations inherited from the upstream extension;
the rest, and everything added since the fork, are machine-assisted and have
not been reviewed by a native speaker (the Last-Translator header of every
po/*.po file says so, Brazilian Portuguese included). Terminology is matched
to GNOME's own translations where the same term exists there, but corrections
are very welcome — a patch against po/<lang>.po, or an
issue pointing out what reads
wrong, is the easiest way to help.
Watch journalctl --user for Shell errors (search for wetter in the
stack traces).
Copyright (C) 2011 - 2026
- Christian METZLER <neroth@xeked.com>,
- Elad Alfassa <elad@fedoraproject.org>,
- Mark Benjamin <weather.gnome.Markie1@dfgh.net>,
- Simon Claessens <gagalago@gmail.com>,
- Ecyrbe <ecyrbe+spam@gmail.com>,
- Timur Kristóf <venemo@msn.com>,
- Simon Legner <Simon.Legner@gmail.com>,
- Mattia Meneguzzo <odysseus@fedoraproject.org>,
- Marlon Konrad (GNOME 45+/libgweather-4 port).
This file is part of Wetter.
Wetter is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Wetter is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Wetter. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.