Animated Weather Card turns a Home Assistant weather entity into a living sky. The condition and the time of day set the light. Rain, snow, fog, wind, lightning and clouds move behind the numbers, and the temperature is always the first thing you read. A matching sun tracker card comes in the same download.
It’s in HACS’s default store: search HACS for Animated Weather Card
You can try it live in your browser first, on sample data or your own weather. The setup guide walks through every step, and the code is on GitHub.
What it does
- A sky for every condition. Its light follows the real sun through dawn, day, dusk and night, and one sky dissolves into the next.
- Weather that moves like weather. Rain splashes on the card’s lower edge, snow drifts with the wind, fog drifts in layers, leaves blow across on windy days, and lightning lights the sky from above. The live wind speed sets the pace.
- A note from your AI. Optional, with Home Assistant 2025.8 or later and an AI Task. It writes a line about the hours ahead: when the rain starts and stops, the high and the low, and what to wear when you’re out, from your calendar. Pick its voice: snarky, calm, friendly or dry. Serious weather always gets plain advice.
- Planes, actually overhead. With the Flightradar24 integration (AlexandrErohin/home-assistant-flightradar24), each flight that enters your area crosses the card once, at its real heading, altitude and speed, drawn as its aircraft. After dark, a plane is its lights.
- Fits any frame. A phone column, a sections grid, a wall tablet, or a one-line compact strip. The card measures what fits rather than clipping.
- At home in any theme. The theme palette drops the sky and draws the weather in your dashboard’s colours, light or dark if you prefer something that blends with your current dashboard.
Setting it up
Add the card and it starts on your weather entity. Every option is in the visual editor. In YAML, this is all it needs:
type: custom:animated-weather-card
entity: weather.forecast_home
sun_entity: sun.sun
The README lists every option, and the setup guide covers the weather note, planes and troubleshooting.
Note:
AI helped build this card. Its code, tests and documentation were developed with an AI assistant, under my direction. I review every change, and each one has to pass the test suite before I merge it. If you’d rather not use software made with AI, you know before you install.
Questions and feedback
Ask here in this thread. For a bug or an idea, the GitHub issues have a short form for each. I’d like to hear what you think about it.
I’ll update the README and the setup guide to say so for the next release.