Nature & Ambient Sound Effects
310 sounds in 31 collections · last 0.8–3600 s · WAV & MP3 · CC0 · no signup · also via the free API & MCP
Rain, forest, ocean, wind, fireplace and room tone clips for backgrounds and scenes.
Backgrounds do their job when nobody notices them: rain that sits behind dialogue, room tone that hides edits, a fireplace that makes a scene feel inhabited.
- Airport Terminal Crowd Ambience2 sounds · 5.4–22.1 s
- Fireplace Crackling32 sounds · 9.2–21.7 s
- Forest Ambience28 sounds · 6–21.4 s
- Ocean Waves35 sounds · 8.6–18.3 s
- Rain38 sounds · 6–18.5 s
- Room Tone29 sounds · 6–21.5 s
- Thunder7 sounds · 3.2–5.8 s
- Wind37 sounds · 3.3–20.8 s
- Branch Creak2 sounds · 1.6–1.9 s
- Branch Snap2 sounds · 1.1–1.4 s
- Cafe Interior Ambience3 sounds · 7.7–18.1 s
- City Sidewalk Traffic6 sounds · 4.5–22.4 s
- Construction Site4 sounds · 3.7–8 s
- Desert Wind3 sounds · 7.4–20.3 s
- Factory Machinery Ambience2 sounds · 5.9–19.7 s
- Jungle Ambience6 sounds · 7.4–22.2 s
- Leaves Rustling4 sounds · 1.5–5.7 s
- Lightning Strike4 sounds · 1.1–4.9 s
- Meadow Ambience5 sounds · 7.2–22.7 s
- Night Ambience2 sounds · 17.8–18.9 s
- Park Bird Ambience2 sounds · 7.3–18.5 s
- Server Room Hum2 sounds · 7.2–19.6 s
- Ski Stop2 sounds · 1.1–1.5 s
- Snow Dumped from Shovel2 sounds · 1.4–1.6 s
- Snow Shovel2 sounds · 1.5–1.6 s
- Swamp Ambience5 sounds · 7.4–18 s
- Tornado4 sounds · 7–7.8 s
- Tropical Rainforest Ambience2 sounds · 7.2–19.6 s
- Underwater Ambience2 sounds · 17.3–17.4 s
- Village Ambience2 sounds · 17.7–19 s
- White Noise2 sounds · 3.6 s
More one-off sounds
Choose an ambience for your scene
The ambience pages are clips of a place or weather: rain, wind, forest, ocean and rooms. Pick the place first, then the kind on its page.
- Pick the place or weather below.
- On its page, pick the kind, such as a soft breeze or howling wind.
- For a long scene, crossfade two clips of the same kind.
Find a background with birds
For birds as part of a background, use the Morning Birdsong files on the forest page. For one bird in front, use the bird chirping page.
- Open the forest page and pick a Morning Birdsong file.
- Add a single bird from the bird chirping page if one should stand out.
- Forest ambience
Morning birdsong among other forest backgrounds.
- Bird chirping
Single songbirds, sparrows and a morning chorus.
Choose an outdoor setting
Pick an outdoor background by place and weather: forest, wind or rain.
- Pick the place or weather first.
- Add single birds or splashes on top from their own pages.
- For a long scene, crossfade two clips of the same kind.
- Forest ambience
Woodland backgrounds.
- Wind ambience
Breezes, gusts and mountain wind.
- Rain ambience
Rain on roofs, windows and leaves.
How to choose nature & ambient sound effects
Pick by density first — sparse textures (room tone, light wind) for dialogue-heavy scenes, denser ones (storm, forest at dusk) when ambience carries the mood alone. Mix ambience 10–20dB under foreground elements; if you notice it, it's too loud.
Where these sounds work best
- video and film scene beds
- game level background loops
- meditation and sleep apps
- podcast scene-setting
Frequently asked questions
Can I loop these for a longer scene?
Most clips run several seconds. For a longer background, overlap two copies with a crossfade; CC0 permits editing and re-export.
Are these real field recordings?
No — everything is AI-generated or synthesized, which is exactly why the catalog can be CC0: no location releases, no third-party recording rights, nothing to clear.
Every sound in this category is CC0 1.0 public domain — free for commercial use, no attribution required. See the full license terms.