Cloudy Emoji

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Cloudy Emoji

⛅Sun behind cloudU+26C5Ready to copy

54 items. Tap one to copy it.

Cloud sun emoji 4

Cloudy sky 13

Cloud cover circles 6

Small sun symbols 5

Cloudy emoticons 5

Cloud drawings 2

Forecast lines 7

Cloudy combos 12

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How it works

The cloudy emoji is Sun behind cloud, ⛅, U+26C5: the only one that CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files under cloudy. For a sky with no sun in it, plain Cloud, ☁️, carries Unicode’s note cloudy weather.

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Partly cloudy emoji, mostly cloudy emoji: Unicode’s own labels

Four emoji put a sun behind a cloud, and Unicode’s character list notes each one as a forecast. Sun behind cloud is partly cloudy, Sun behind small cloud mostly sunny, Sun behind large cloud mostly cloudy and Sun behind rain cloud showers. The first is from Emoji 0.6, the other three from Emoji 0.7.

Cloud cover on a weather map

By Wikipedia the circle at each station of a weather map shows cloud cover: empty for a clear sky, partly filled for partly cloudy, half black when half the sky is covered, filled in for overcast. Five plain circles here run from one end to the other.

  • For a small sun symbol to copy and paste, take ☀︎ or ☼. Text style tiles are one color, the color of your text.

Questions and answers

What does the sun behind cloud emoji mean?

Partly cloudy, by Unicode’s note for it. CLDR gives it five search words: behind, cloud, cloudy, sun and weather.

Which is the partly sunny emoji?

The same tile, ⛅. The US National Weather Service defines partly sunny and partly cloudy alike, as 3/8 to 5/8 of the sky covered by clouds, and uses partly sunny only for daylight hours.

Is there a sun cloud rain emoji?

Yes: Sun behind rain cloud, U+1F326, which CLDR files under rain and sun. To spell the same sky out in three tiles, Sun, cloud, rain copies ☀️☁️🌧️.

How do you type a cloudy emoticon?

Type _( )( )_: an underscore, two pairs of parentheses and an underscore make a cloud with two lumps. Put an asterisk in front and the sun is behind it.

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Cloud sun emoji 4

  • Sun behind cloud U+26C5. The only emoji CLDR files under cloudy. Unicode’s note for it: partly cloudy. Emoji 0.6.
  • Sun behind large cloud U+1F325 U+FE0F. Unicode names the character White sun behind cloud. Its note: mostly cloudy. Emoji 0.7.
  • Sun behind rain cloud U+1F326 U+FE0F. Unicode’s note for it: showers. Filed under rain and sun. Emoji 0.7.
  • Sun behind small cloud U+1F324 U+FE0F. Unicode names the character White sun with small cloud. Its note: mostly sunny. Emoji 0.7.

Cloudy sky 13

  • Cloud U+2601 U+FE0F. Unicode’s note for it: cloudy weather. Filed under cloud and weather. Emoji 0.6.
  • Cloud with lightning U+1F329 U+FE0F. Filed under cloud and lightning. Emoji 0.7.
  • Cloud with lightning and rain U+26C8 U+FE0F. Filed under cloud and thunderstorm. Emoji 0.7.
  • Cloud with rain U+1F327 U+FE0F. Filed under cloud and rain. Emoji 0.7.
  • Cloud with snow U+1F328 U+FE0F. Filed under cloud and snow. Emoji 0.7.
  • Dashing away U+1F4A8. Not weather, but filed under cloud. Emoji 0.6.
  • Face in clouds U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F. Filed under clouds, fog and absentminded. Emoji 13.1.
  • Fog U+1F32B U+FE0F. Filed under cloud and fog. Emoji 0.7.
  • Foggy U+1F301. Filed under fog. Unicode lists it with places, not weather. Emoji 0.6.
  • Sun U+2600 U+FE0F. Unicode’s note for it: clear weather. Filed under sunny. Emoji 0.6.
  • Thought balloon U+1F4AD. Not weather either. Filed under cloud and daydream. Emoji 1.0.
  • Tornado U+1F32A U+FE0F. Filed under cloud and whirlwind. Emoji 0.7.
  • Wind face U+1F32C U+FE0F. Filed under cloud and wind. Emoji 0.7.
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Cloud cover circles 6

  • ○ ◔ ◑ ◕ ● Clear to overcast in five circles
  • Clear sky, empty circle U+25CB. White circle. On a weather map an empty station circle means a clear sky, by Wikipedia.
  • Half the sky, half circle U+25D1. Circle with right half black. Half the sky in cloud is a circle half white and half black, by Wikipedia.
  • Mostly cloudy, three-quarter circle U+25D5. Circle with all but upper left quadrant black. The nearest character to a station circle that is mostly filled.
  • Overcast, filled circle U+25CF. Black circle. A station circle filled in means overcast, by Wikipedia.
  • Partly cloudy, quarter circle U+25D4. Circle with upper right quadrant black. A partly filled station circle means a partly cloudy sky, by Wikipedia.

Small sun symbols 5

  • Cloud, text style U+2601. Cloud, in text style.
  • Small sun, dot in a circle U+2609. Unicode’s name for it is one word: Sun.
  • Small sun, outline U+263C. White sun with rays. A plain character, never drawn as an emoji.
  • Small sun, text style U+2600. Black sun with rays, in text style: one color, the color of your text.
  • Sun behind cloud, text style U+26C5. Sun behind cloud, in text style: one color, like the letters beside it.

Cloudy emoticons 5

  • ( ._.) ☁︎ A face under its own cloud
  • * . _( )( )_ . * A cloud passing between two suns
  • *_( )( )_ The sun behind it: an asterisk at the cloud’s shoulder
  • _( )( )_ A cloud: two lumps on a flat base. Plain ASCII
  • _( )( )_ _( )( )_ _( )( )_ Three in a row: mostly cloudy

Cloud drawings 2

  • Cloud, drawn Three lines of ASCII
  • Sun behind a cloud, drawn Four lines of ASCII

Forecast lines 7

  • Cloudy, with a chance of naps ☁️ The weekend outlook
  • Mon ☀️ Tue 🌤️ Wed ⛅ Thu 🌥️ Fri ☁️ A week that clouds over, to edit
  • Mostly cloudy, staying in 🌥️ A cautious one
  • Mostly sunny, with a chance of plans 🌤️ An optimistic outlook
  • Partly cloudy, fully undecided ⛅ For the status line
  • The sun is out. It is behind that ⛅ Technically true
  • Today: ⛅ High ___ Low ___ A forecast to fill in

Cloudy combos 12

  • Beach, with doubts Beach with umbrella, then sun behind cloud.
  • Bring a coat Sun behind large cloud, then coat.
  • Clearing up Cloud, then sun behind large cloud, then sun behind cloud, then sun behind small cloud, then sun.
  • Clouding over Sun, then sun behind small cloud, then sun behind cloud, then sun behind large cloud, then cloud.
  • Grey start, bright later Cloud, then right arrow, then sun behind small cloud.
  • Head in the clouds Face in clouds, then thought balloon.
  • Picnic, maybe Sun behind cloud, then basket.
  • Silver lining Cloud, then sparkles.
  • Sun, cloud, rain Sun, then cloud, then cloud with rain.
  • Sunglasses and an umbrella Sun behind rain cloud, then sunglasses, then closed umbrella.
  • Sunny spells Sun behind cloud, then sun, then sun behind cloud.
  • Washing out, fingers crossed Sun behind cloud, then t-shirt, then crossed fingers.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Sun behind cloud is U+26C5, Emoji 0.6, in the subgroup sky & weather: Cloud is printed before it and Cloud with lightning and rain after it. It is the only emoji CLDR files under cloudy; four emoji are filed under behind and 14 under cloud, all 14 of them here. Sun behind small cloud, Sun behind large cloud and Sun behind rain cloud are from Emoji 0.7. The notes partly cloudy, mostly sunny, mostly cloudy, showers, cloudy weather and clear weather are the alias lines of those characters in NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and the text style forms from https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. That partly cloudy and partly sunny are both 3/8 to 5/8 of the sky covered by clouds, and that partly sunny is used only during daylight hours, is the glossary of the US National Weather Service (https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=partly). That the circle of a weather map’s station model shows cloud cover (empty for clear, partly filled for partly cloudy, half black for half the sky, filled for overcast) is from Wikipedia, Station model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_model, CC BY-SA 4.0); the okta, one eighth of the sky, from Wikipedia, Okta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okta). The five circles are the nearest plain characters to those map signs, not the map signs themselves. The five typed clouds, the two drawings, the seven lines and the twelve combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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