Weather widget for the new tab page
Checking the weather is a two-second question that costs a tab, a page full of advertising and about forty seconds of your attention. Having it already on screen removes the whole round trip.
What it shows
Four things, each of which can be switched off. An icon, the temperature, a one-word condition (Clear, Clouds, Rain) and the city name.
That’s a deliberate floor, not a limitation. Humidity, pressure, wind and sunset are all in the same reading and none of them change what you do next. The jacket question needs a number and a word. Six more numbers only make the answer slower to find.
Leave the icon and the temperature and the widget shrinks to something you park in a corner and read without looking directly at it.
Choosing a location
Type a city, pick it from the list. The widget never asks the browser where you are. Which is why it needs no location permission at all.
The reading comes from the weather service directly rather than through our servers, so the city you’re watching isn’t something we can see.
City is stored per widget, so a second one can show somewhere else: where family lives, or where you’re going next week.
Placing it
Reference information, not the point of the page, corner, modest size. The exception is a travel page, where a big weather block for the destination next to a countdown to the trip is the entire idea.
Weather settings
- City — Typed and picked from a list; stored per widget, so several can show different places.
- What’s displayed — Icon, temperature, one-word condition and city name, each can be hidden.
- Units — Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- Appearance — Font, size, colour, background fill with transparency, corner radius. Weather sits well as a translucent card, because the icon wants a little contrast behind it.
- Size and position — Compact in a corner, or large for a destination-weather layout.
What people use it for
- A corner readout that answers the jacket question.
- A second widget for another city, family, a client, a destination.
- Paired with a trip countdown on a travel page.
The weather widget is part of New Tab Studio — free to install, no account needed to start.
Add to ChromeQuestions about the weather widget
Does it need my location permission?
No. You type the city yourself, and the browser is never asked where you are.
Does it show a multi-day forecast?
No, current conditions only. For a full forecast, an iframe widget can embed a weather page on the same tab.
Does it work offline?
It shows the last reading it managed to fetch and updates when you’re back online. The clock, countdowns, tasks and notes on the same page carry on regardless.
Widgets that pair well with it
See the full widget catalogue or browse themes other people have built.