Spanish Weather Vocabulary

In this article you will find the most common Spanish weather vocabulary to talk about the weather and climate.

Weather is something we all talk about. Most of the times, it is even a conversation starter. For example, haven’t you ever started a conversation saying something like?: What a nice day! or it is colder today. The same happens in Spanish.

Also, knowing more vocabulary will always help with your speaking skills.

For these reasons, I put together the most common Spanish weather vocabulary including nouns, verbs and expressions. Below, you will find a few tables with the vocabulary and their English translations. Audios are included.

CONTENTS

When you want to talk about weather in Spanish, the verbs commonly used are: haber, hacer and estar. The last is used to indicate non-permanence. As all we know, weather is not famous for its stability and thus, it is considered a non-permanent state. However, several specific verbs also exists to describe the weather, such as nevar (to snow) or llover (to rain).

HOW TO ASK ABOUT THE WEATHER

Spanish	English
¿Qué tiempo hace?	What’s the weather like?
¿Cómo está el tiempo?	How’s the weather?
¿Qué día hace?	How’s the weather? What's the weather like?

NOUNS

Spanish	English
El bochorno	Sweltering
El calor	Hot
El chaparrón El chubasco	Downpour
El frío	Cold
El granizo	Hail or hailstones
La granizada	Hailstorm
La humedad	Humidity
La lluvia	Rain
La llovizna	Drizzle
La niebla	Fog
La nieve	Snow
Las nubes	Clouds
La nevada	Snowfall
El sol	Sun
La tormenta	Storm
El trueno	Thunder
El viento	Wind
La ventisca La tormenta de nieve	Blizzard
El rayo El relámpago	Lightning (flash)

VERBS

Spanish	English
Granizar	To hail
Llover	To rain
Lloviznar	To drizzle
Nevar	To snow
Relampaguear	To flash lightning
Tronar	To thunder

WHAT´S THE WEATHER LIKE?

You can spend a lot of time trying to figuring out what type of verb you need to use to answer this question. From my point of view, the best is to just remember the whole sentences.

Spanish	English
Hace bochorno Hay bochorno	It is sweltering
Hace buen tiempo	The weather is nice/good
Hace calor	It is hot
Hace fresco	It is cool
Graniza Hay granizo Está granizando	It is hailing
Hace humedad Hay humedad	It is humid
Llueve Está lloviendo	It is raining
Llovizna Está lloviznando	It is drizzling
Está lluvioso	It is rainy
Hace mal tiempo	The weather is bad
Hay niebla Está nebuloso	It is foggy
Hay neblina	It is misty
Nieva Está nevando	It is snowing
Hay nubes Está nublado	It is cloudy
Relampaguea Hay relámpagos	It is lightning
Hace sol Está soleado	It is sunny
Hay una tormenta de nieve Hay una ventisca Hace ventisca	There is a blizzard
Hay tormenta	There is a storm
Truena Hay truenos Está tronando	There are thunders It is thundering
Hace viento Hay viento Está ventoso	It is windy
Hay un vendaval	There is strong wind

OTHER SENTENCES

Spanish	English
Hace un buen día	It is a nice/good day
Hace un día estupendo/maravilloso	It is a wonderful day
Hace un día horroroso	It is a terrible day
Hace un día soleado	It is a sunny day
Hace un mal día	It is a bad day

EXPRESSIONS

A lot of colloquial expressions and idioms exist in Spanish for any topic, weather is no different.

Spanish	English
¡Cómo pega el Lorenzo!	"How hits Lorenzo!" Lorenzo, which is the sun, is shining hard and thus, it is very hot!
Hace rasca	It is very cold
Hace un calor infernal	It is diabolically hot
Hace un calor que te achicharras	It is as hot that you burn
Hace un día de perros	It is a very bad day "It is a day of dogs"
Hace un frío del carajo	It is very cold "It is dam cold"
Hace un frío que pela	It is very cold "It's so cold it burns your skin"
Hace un frío que cala	It is very cold "It is as cold it seeps through"
Hace un sol de justicia	It is super sunny "It is a sun of justice"
Llueve a cántaros	It is raining cats and dogs
Llueve a mares	It is raining cats and dogs "It is raining seas"
¡Me aso de calor!	It is simply very hot! "I am roasting because of the heat!"
Me estoy asando	I am roasting
Me muero de calor	I am dying of heat
Me muero de frío	I am dying of cold
¡Qué calor! ¡Vaya calor!	How hot! It is really hot! It is so hot!
¡Qué chaparrón! ¡Vaya chaparrón!	What a downpour!
¡Qué frío! ¡Vaya frío!	How cold! It is really cold It is so cold!
Ser un friolero	To be cold-blooded

Spanish Climate Vocabulary

Climate is the conditions of the atmosphere over a long period of time. From this definition, we can consider that it is something that usually happens or an event in a permanent state. For this reason, we use the verb ser to describe the climate, since ser indicates permanence.

Spanish	English
Es cálido	It is warm
Es caluroso	It is hot
Es fresco	It is cool
Es frío	It is cold
Es húmedo	It is humid
Es seco	It is dry
Es lluvioso	It is rainy

Final Thoughts

I hope this post helps you learn and practice the Spanish weather vocabulary.

I recommend you to practice with the examples here and try to make up some others on your own.

If you want, I can help you practice with this vocabulary by using it while having a conversation during our online Spanish conversation classes.

Additionally, we can practice in the comment section below by answering the following questions:

¿Qué tiempo hace en tu ciudad?
¿Va a llover?
¿Normalmente hace mucho frío en invierno en tu país?

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