Rain Sound Effects
38 free rain sound effects for calm night backgrounds and rainy weather · last 6–18.5 s · WAV & MP3 · CC0 · no signup
38 rain sound effects, each several seconds of rainfall: leafy forest rain, heavy pouring rain, distant rumbling rain, light drizzle, rain drumming on a metal roof, soft rain pattering on a window and gentle steady rain. Use them under a stormy level, a cosy indoor scene, a walk through a wet forest or a sleep or focus app.
Quick picks: Gentle Steady Rain 31 (15.8 s, reviewed) · Distant Rumbling Rain 34 (6 s, the shortest, reviewed) · Gentle Steady Rain 62 (18.5 s, the longest, reviewed)
All 38
- Distant Rumbling Rain 34Reviewed WAVAmbience · 6 s6 s
- Gentle Steady Rain 35Reviewed WAVAmbience · 6 s6 s
- Leafy Forest Rain 36Reviewed WAVAmbience · 6 s6 s
- Gentle Steady Rain 59Reviewed WAVAmbience · 7.7 s7.7 s
- Soft Window-Pattering Rain 60Reviewed WAVAmbience · 7.9 s7.9 s
- Leafy Forest Rain 58Reviewed WAVAmbience · 8.4 s8.4 s
- Lightly Drizzling Rain 03Reviewed WAVbright · 10 s10 s
- Soft Window-Pattering Rain 21Reviewed WAVbright · 10 s10 s
- Heavy Pouring Rain 37Reviewed WAVAmbience · 10 s10 s
- Leafy Forest Rain 38Reviewed WAVAmbience · 10 s10 s
- Heavy Pouring Rain 41Reviewed WAVAmbience · 10 s10 s
- Heavy Pouring Rain 47Reviewed WAVAmbience · 10 s10 s
- Distant Rumbling Rain 48Reviewed WAVAmbience · 10 s10 s
- Gentle Steady Rain 55Reviewed WAVAmbience · 10 s10 s
- Leafy Forest Rain 32Reviewed WAVbright · 10.5 s10.5 s
- Heavy Pouring Rain 05Reviewed WAVbright · 11 s11 s
- Lightly Drizzling Rain 17Reviewed WAVbright · 11 s11 s
- Heavy Pouring Rain 20Reviewed WAVbalanced · 11 s11 s
- Gentle Steady Rain 25Reviewed WAVbright · 11 s11 s
- Lightly Drizzling Rain 40Reviewed WAVAmbience · 11 s11 s
- Distant Rumbling Rain 42Reviewed WAVAmbience · 11 s11 s
- Distant Rumbling Rain 43Reviewed WAVAmbience · 11 s11 s
- Leafy Forest Rain 45Reviewed WAVAmbience · 11 s11 s
- Soft Window-Pattering Rain 46Reviewed WAVAmbience · 11 s11 s
- Soft Window-Pattering Rain 49Reviewed WAVAmbience · 11 s11 s
- Leafy Forest Rain 50Reviewed WAVAmbience · 11 s11 s
- Leafy Forest Rain 51Reviewed WAVAmbience · 11 s11 s
- Soft Window-Pattering Rain 52Reviewed WAVAmbience · 11 s11 s
- Metal-Roof Drumming Rain 53Reviewed WAVAmbience · 11 s11 s
- Metal-Roof Drumming Rain 54Reviewed WAVAmbience · 11 s11 s
- Metal-Roof Drumming Rain 15Reviewed WAVbalanced · 12 s12 s
- Leafy Forest Rain 39Reviewed WAVAmbience · 12 s12 s
- Metal-Roof Drumming Rain 44Reviewed WAVAmbience · 12 s12 s
- Distant Rumbling Rain 56Reviewed WAVAmbience · 12 s12 s
- Lightly Drizzling Rain 57Reviewed WAVAmbience · 12 s12 s
- Gentle Steady Rain 31Reviewed WAVbright · 15.8 s15.8 s
- Heavy Pouring Rain 61Reviewed WAVPrepared loop · 17.9 s17.9 s
- Gentle Steady Rain 62Reviewed WAVPrepared loop · 18.5 s18.5 s
Related sound effects
Common uses: calm night backgrounds, rainy weather.
Which rain variation to use
Pick by where the listener is. Soft Window-Pattering Rain suits a room indoors, Metal-Roof Drumming Rain a shed or a car, and Leafy Forest Rain a walk under trees. Heavy Pouring Rain suits a storm, Lightly Drizzling Rain a grey day and Distant Rumbling Rain a storm further off. For a long background, start with a file marked Prepared loop.
Need a comparison method? Try the playable examples and selection checklist.
Common questions about rain
Can I loop the rain?
Yes: the files marked Prepared loop repeat without a seam. Loop the WAV; an MP3 adds a short gap where it starts over. The other files are single takes: for a long background, crossfade two files of the same kind.
Is there rain on a roof or a window?
Yes: the Metal-Roof Drumming Rain files for a roof and the Soft Window-Pattering Rain files for a window.
In code: GET https://sfxmint.com/api/v1/roles/rain returns a default rain file with alternates, and the MCP tool get_role_sound does the same for coding assistants. No key needed.
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