See Clouds in Google Earth

Animated Clouds shows you the last 24 hours of cloud movement on Google Earth. The data is updated every hour, or when new data is available.

Turn on Animated Clouds

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Earth app .
2. Tap Map style .
3. Scroll to “Turn on animated clouds” and turn on the feature.

Tip: Google Earth shows stationary clouds by default, and animated clouds fade and then disappear when you zoom in.

Notes:

• Cloud data may not always be precise and shouldn’t be used for public safety or daily planning.
• There might be gaps in coverage and irregular shaped clouds.
• If new data is unavailable, we’ll show the most recent complete data rather than show no clouds.
• There’s no cloud data near the poles.

Troubleshooting

If we experience an outage, we’ll notify you on our forum.