Climatle
Match the year-round climateAbout Climatle
Climatle is a free daily climate guessing game. Each day a new mystery city is chosen from a curated list of more than 180 places around the world, and you have six tries to identify it.
Unlike a pure geography quiz, Climatle asks you to think about climate: temperature ranges, seasonal patterns, and yearly rainfall. Every guess reveals how close you are — geographically (distance and direction on the globe) and climatically (warmer, colder, wetter, drier, plus a climate-match percentage). It's a puzzle for travellers, geography buffs, and anyone curious about how the world's weather varies.
How to play
- Type a city or country name in the search box at the top.
- Pick one from the dropdown — your guess submits instantly.
- Read the feedback:
- Distance in kilometres from your guess to the mystery city
- A direction arrow on the globe pointing roughly toward the answer
- Climate match percentage — how similar the year-round climate of your guess is to the answer's
- Warmer / colder, wetter / drier hints telling you which way to go in climate terms
- Repeat. You have six guesses in total.
- Solve it (or run out of tries), then share your result.
Strategy tips
- Anchor with a familiar city. Your first guess teaches you the answer's climate band — hot or cold, wet or dry.
- Use warmer/colder to narrow latitude. Most year-round temperature variation tracks latitude.
- Use wetter/drier to identify the climate type. Drier could mean desert or Mediterranean; wetter often signals monsoon, oceanic, or tropical rainforest.
- Match percentage is most useful between similar climates. A 90% match means the year-round climate fingerprints are very close, even if the cities are on opposite continents.
- Drag the globe to spin it. Useful when the answer is on the back hemisphere.
Frequently asked questions
What weather data does Climatle use?
Climatle uses climate normals — average high temperature, average low temperature, and total monthly rainfall, calculated across all 12 months for each city. This isn't today's weather; it's the year-round climate pattern, which is stable and the same for every player.
What does the climate match percentage mean?
For each guess we compare its 12 monthly highs, lows, and rainfall totals against the answer's. A weighted distance is computed across all those data points and converted to a percentage. 100% means the climates are essentially identical; lower percentages mean larger differences in temperature or precipitation across the year.
How often does the puzzle change?
A new puzzle is selected every day. Everyone in the world plays the same city on the same day, so you can share scores fairly.
Why is the direction arrow short?
To preserve the puzzle. The arrow always covers at most ~40% of the distance to the answer, so it never lands on top of the mystery city — it only points you roughly the right way.
Does Climatle save my streak?
Yes. Your streak and statistics are stored locally in your browser. No account or sign-up is required.
Is Climatle free to play?
Yes — completely free, no ads inside the game, no registration.
What makes Climatle different from other geography games?
Most geography games test where places are. Climatle tests what places are like — their climate fingerprint across the year. You can solve a puzzle without knowing the exact location of the answer, just by reasoning about temperature and rainfall.
Climate normals are derived from historical weather records aggregated into monthly averages — see NOAA's Climate Normals methodology for the canonical definition. This gives a stable, comparable picture of each city's typical conditions and lets the game treat geography and climate as a single puzzle. Looking for actual forecasts? Browse our city weather pages.