Talk About the Weather in Spanish

Quick Answer

¡Hola!Learn how to talk about the weather in Spanish! Specifically, learn how to do the following in Spanish:

• talk about the weather

• talk about temperature

• talk about the seasons

Vocabulary

Let's take a look at all the great weather and season vocab you learn in these lessons!

Weather Words

You learned the following basic terms for talking about the weather.

Spanish	English
el grado	degree
el tiempo	weather
la temperatura	temperature

examples
¿Qué temperatura hace? What temperature is it?
¿Qué tiempo hace? What's the weather like?
Hace cincuenta grados. It's fifty degrees.

Seasons

You also learned the name of the four seasons in Spanish.

Spanish	English
la primavera	spring
el verano	summer
el otoño	fall or autumn
el invierno	winter

examples
En primavera, hace buen tiempo. In the spring, the weather is nice.
En verano, hace calor. In the summer, it's hot.
En otoño, hace viento. In the fall, it's windy.
En invierno, nieva mucho. In the winter, it snows a lot.

Numbers

You learned new numbers in this skill as well!

Spanish	English
treinta	thirty
cuarenta	forty
cincuenta	fifty

Number Tip

To form the numbers from 31-39, 41-49, and 51-59, you simply say a multiple of ten like treinta, the word y(and), and a number from one to nine! For example:

32 = treinta y dos(thirty-two)

36 = treinta y seis(thirty-six)

45 = cuarenta y cinco(forty-five)

47 = cuarenta y siete(forty-seven)

54 = cincuenta y cuatro(fifty-four)

58 = cincuenta y ocho(fifty-eight)

Talking about Temperature

To say what temperature it is, you can use the verb hacer in the third-person singular (hace), a number, and then the word gradoor grados.

examples
Hace un grado. It's one degree.
Hace treinta grados. It's thirty degrees.
Hace cuarenta grados. It's forty degrees.
Hace cincuenta grados. It's fifty degrees.
Hace treinta y tres grados. It's thirty-three degrees.
Hace cuarenta y cinco grados. It's forty-five degrees.
Hace cincuenta y siete grados. It's fifty-seven degrees.

Adverbs

You learned two useful adverbs in this skill. Take a look!

Spanish	English
adentro	inside
afuera	outside

examples
Adentro hace calor. It's hot inside.
Está nevando afuera. It's snowing outside.

Verbs

In these lessons, you learned the simple present of the verbs llover(to rain) and nevar(to snow). Just like in English, these verbs only have one conjugated form...unless you're being poetic! Let's take a look!

Llover

Spanish	English
llueve	it rains

For example:

examples
Llueve mucho. It rains a lot.

Nevar

Spanish	English
nieva	it snows

For example:

examples
A veces nieva. Sometimes it snows.

Conjugation Tip

Keep in mind that both llover and nevar undergo stem changes in the present tense.

llueve(it rains)

llove

nieva(it snows)

neva

Phrases

Finally, you learned lots of great phrases for talking about the weather in these lessons.

Spanish	English
¿Qué temperature hace?	What's the temperature?
¿Qué tiempo hace?	What's the weather like?
Hace calor.	It's hot.
Hace frío.	It's cold.
Hace sol.	It's sunny.
Hace viento.	It's windy.
Hace buen tiempo.	The weather is nice.
Hace mal tiempo.	The weather is bad.
Está lloviendo.	It's raining.
Está nevando.	It's snowing.
Está nublado.	It's cloudy.