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Weather can be changed using setWeather and setWeatherBlended functions. In GTA: SA, every weather has different parameters for the sunrise, morning, midday, noon, afternoon, sunset, night and midnight, so a weather can vary a lot deppending of the time of the day.

Non-standard weather ID's between 20 and 255 are also supported, but they might be buggy at some moments of the day.

MTA has custom weather functions which can modify how a weather is rendered, but in this list the weathers are described without taking that into account. Also, using setWeatherBlended allows for more undocumented effects.

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For a complete weather gallery, containing images of every weather ID (0 to 255) shot at various in-game hours, visit this external site.

Default GTA: SA Weathers (registered in timecyc.dat)

ID Name Screenshot (noon) Comments
0 EXTRASUNNY_LA Weather ID 0

Applies a heat haze effect

 In singleplayer, these are Los Santos specific weathers.
They are clear weathers, with blue sky and few clouds.
1 SUNNY_LA Weather ID 1
2 EXTRASUNNY_SMOG_LA Weather ID 2
3 SUNNY_SMOG_LA Weather ID 3
4 CLOUDY_LA Weather ID 4
5 SUNNY_SF Weather ID 5 In singleplayer, these are San Fierro specific weathers.
They are more diverse than Los Santos': some of them are clear, but others are rainy or foggy.
6 EXTRASUNNY_SF Weather ID 6
7 CLOUDY_SF Weather ID 7
8 RAINY_SF Weather ID 8

Starts a thunderstorm, with rain and lightnings
9 FOGGY_SF Weather ID 9

Starts a cloudy, dense fog
10 SUNNY_VEGAS Weather ID 10 In singleplayer, these are Las Venturas specific weathers.
They are clear, dry weathers.
11 EXTRASUNNY_VEGAS Weather ID 11

Applies scorching hot weather, with a heat haze effect
12 CLOUDY_VEGAS Weather ID 12
13 EXTRASUNNY_COUNTRYSIDE Weather ID 13 In singleplayer, these are Los Santos countryside specific weathers.
They are dull, hazy, diverse weathers, with rainy ones.
14 SUNNY_COUNTRYSIDE Weather ID 14
15 CLOUDY_COUNTRYSIDE Weather ID 15
16 RAINY_COUNTRYSIDE Weather ID 16

Starts a thunderstorm
17 EXTRASUNNY_DESERT Weather ID 17

Apply a heat haze effect

 In singleplayer, these are Bone County specific weathers.
They are clear, dry, scorching hot weathers.
18 SUNNY_DESERT Weather ID 18

Apply a heat haze effect
19 SANDSTORM_DESERT Weather ID 19

Starts a dense sandstorm
20 UNDERWATER Weather ID 20 In singleplayer, this is probably the weather used internally when camera is underwater.
It is greenish and cloudy, so it appears to be a kind of contaminated weather.
21 EXTRACOLOURS_1 Weather ID 21

Adds a purple-ish color to the sky and objects

 In singleplayer, these are weathers used in interiors.
They are somewhat strange, dark weathers with gradiented skyline colors.
22 EXTRACOLOURS_2 Weather ID 22

Adds a black-white sky and a uniform light to objects

Other Weather IDs

  • 23 to 26: Pale orange weather.
  • 27 to 29: Fresh blue weather.
  • 30 to 32: Dark, cloudy, teal weather.
  • 33: Dark, cloudy, brown weather.
  • 34: Blue/purple, regular weather.
  • 35: Dull brown weather.
  • 36 to 38: Bright, foggy, orange weather.
  • 39: Very bright weather. Night looks like day.
  • 40 to 42: Blue/purple, cloudy weather.
  • 43: Toxic, contaminated clouds weather.
  • 44: Black/white sky weather, similar to 22.
  • 45 to 60: Normal seeming weather with graphical bugs at evening.
  • 100: Strange weather which makes objects disappear.
  • 118: Stormy weather with pink sky and crystal water.
  • 126 to 150: Horrible flashing red bugged weather.
  • 151 to 175: Far draw distance weather with pink, purple and turquoise clouds.

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