How to Add the Weather Widget or Icon to Windows 10

Get weather notifications on your Windows taskbar

Written by Darlene Antonelli, MA

Last Updated: December 27, 2024 Fact Checked

Are you looking for that weather icon in your taskbar? Since Windows 10 is highly customizable, you may have hidden a few features that you actually want to enable and use, including the weather widget. You can only activate the weather icon if your taskbar is at the bottom of the screen. This wikiHow article teaches you how to add the weather icon to your Windows 10 taskbar even if you removed it a while ago.

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Right-click the taskbar.
Select News and interests.
Select Show icon and text.

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Right-click the taskbar. This is the bar on your screen that contains the Start menu logo.
- If your taskbar is located at the top, left, or right of your screen, you will not see the "News and interests" option in the menu. You can only add the weather icon/text if the taskbar is at the bottom of your screen.
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Click to select Show icon and text or Show icon. If you don't see this, you're probably running an older version of Windows 10 that didn't have the "News and Interests" feature.^{[2]
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- You can update Windows if you want to use this feature.
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Customize the weather icon. Click the icon, then click Edit location and unit then you can choose to use Celsius or Fahrenheit. Click Save.^{[3]
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- Right-click the taskbar again to decide if you want "News and Interests" to open when you hover your mouse over the weather icon. If you find that having "News and Interests" on your taskbar is slowing down your computer, right-click the taskbar, hover over News and interests > Reduce taskbar updates.^{[4]
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How can I display the date along with the time on my taskbar in Windows 10?

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Go to 'Taskbar Settings' in the Settings app and turn off 'Use small taskbar buttons'. This will show the date beneath the time in the bottom right.

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How can I display only the weather on the taskbar?

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Choose 'Reduce taskbar updates' in the News & Interests menu by right-clicking the taskbar. This might help, but there's no way to show only the weather without other information like stock prices.

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Since Windows 10 is so customizable, you can add a search bar, set the taskbar to always show, pin a program and more.^{[5]
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