This Round Weather Clock Puts the Forecast Beside the Time

Checking the weather on your phone should take six seconds. Somehow, you emerge twelve minutes later knowing what a stranger had for lunch, which celebrity bought a house, and absolutely nothing about whether you need a jacket. The Anoraker Round Weather Clock offers a wonderfully literal escape route: put the time and forecast on an actual clock, then let your phone remain somebody else’s emergency.

The Round Weather Clock Classic is a small touchscreen desk clock with a circular face and two little feet. It looks friendly enough to have opinions about your houseplants. Its job is more practical: show the time, current conditions, and upcoming weather in a format you can glance at while doing something else.

That makes it a particularly appealing object for a kitchen counter, desk, or spot near the keys. Leaving the house already involves finding shoes, remembering a bag, and negotiating with whatever the sky has planned. A dedicated forecast display could at least remove one small round of phone excavation from the ceremony.

A round weather clock that earns its desk space

Anoraker’s Classic uses a 3.4-inch IPS capacitive touchscreen with an 800 by 800 resolution. The case is 3D printed, and its feet angle the display toward you. The whole assembled model measures approximately 4.9 by 6.5 by 2.6 inches. Think compact tabletop object, with a real footprint to account for beside your mug.

The front can switch between analog and digital clock faces. That choice matters more than it sounds. Some people want numerals they can read during the fragile first minutes of consciousness. Others want hands sweeping around a circle because their bedside table has standards. Both camps get a weather report.

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Current temperature, conditions, the day’s high and low, and a multi-day outlook share that small screen. The circle gives all of this a pleasantly self-contained home. It is a little weather porthole, minus the part where opening it floods your bedroom.

The maker, Josh Hendrickson, built the project around a useful distinction: something that feels like an appliance instead of a computer dashboard. That is an appealing design ambition. A dedicated object can be useful precisely because you already know why you are looking at it.

What you actually get in the assembled Classic

The retail model arrives assembled, with its software installed. Inside is a Waveshare ESP32-P4 display unit. You do not need to buy a Raspberry Pi or park a separate computer behind it. First-time setup handles the Wi-Fi connection and location on the clock itself.

• Ready-built hardware: the clock, selected Classic case, and preinstalled software arrive together.
• Touchscreen interaction: move between clock and forecast views without adding a keyboard to the nightstand.
• Location-based weather: Wi-Fi supplies forecast information for the place you set.
• USB-C power: a cable is included; the wall adapter is a separate item.

That last distinction is worth remembering before declaring the setup finished. This is a powered desk clock, so plan its position around a cable and suitable USB supply. A tidy bedside table has enough secret cable negotiations going on behind it already.

A forecast with a few useful extras

Hendrickson’s project documentation describes a five-day forecast, touchscreen navigation, and a dim red night mode. There is also a household messaging page that another device on the same network can use to send a note to the clock. The appeal is easy to picture: a reminder at the place people actually look, rather than another message fighting for survival on a busy phone.

Multiple clocks can share those household messages, with room names helping identify their destinations. That opens the door to a delightfully small domestic communications network. Your kitchen and bedroom could exchange information without anyone shouting from the bottom of the stairs. Whether the recipient remembers the groceries remains a separate family matter.

The current software documentation also lists a conditions screen with wind, pressure, and rain information, an amber warning glow for approaching stormy weather, and an indicator for stale weather data. These are forecast-based features, not evidence that the clock is measuring outdoor conditions from your nightstand.

Weather comes from Open-Meteo, and the seller says no paid weather service is required. You still need the network connection that feeds it. A forecast is useful context for planning a day; it does not transform a desk ornament into a guarantee that your picnic will survive.

Plastic, wood, and the pleasure of a proper case

The pictured teal Classic has the kind of rounded shape that makes a technical project feel approachable. The rear view shows a very different side of it from the polished screen: a printed shell with visible construction details. This is a small maker-built product, and that identity is part of the appeal.

The wood-cased clock shown here is a separate version, rather than the case included with the plastic Classic. It offers a warmer furniture-like treatment for the same general idea. If your desk already contains enough black rectangles to resemble a remote-control rescue shelter, the choice of enclosure is a meaningful part of the purchase.

There is also a rounded Pebble enclosure in the broader project family. Hendrickson provides a free printable Pebble model for builders, and the project supports a separate Raspberry Pi hardware route as well. Those DIY options should not be confused with the assembled Classic listing: buying the finished product and assembling a project are different ways to spend a weekend.

The Pebble pictured above illustrates that alternate case style. For the assembled Classic, Anoraker says each unit is assembled and tested before shipping. Small variations in case color and printed layer lines are expected. Anyone hoping for invisible manufacturing texture should take a close look at the photos; anyone who enjoys seeing how things are made may consider it part of the charm.

The small details before it moves in

This would suit someone who wants a persistent clock and weather view, likes the circular design, and has a useful place to put it. It is less compelling if checking a phone is already effortless or if a power cable would be awkward. A purchase can be both charming and optional. Most of the good things on a desk are.

For owners interested in software updates, the current ESP32-P4 instructions use a computer and USB connection to the browser installer. Wireless updates are not currently available according to the project documentation. That is a practical maintenance detail, especially if your proposed clock location is somewhere reachable only by moving three plants and a suspiciously heavy candle.

• Compact round touchscreen clock with analog and digital faces.
• Current conditions and a five-day forecast in the documented project.
• Assembled Classic uses ESP32-P4 hardware and a printed case.
• USB-C cable supplied; USB power adapter not supplied.
• Wi-Fi weather through Open-Meteo without a paid weather subscription.
• Wood Classic and Pebble are separate enclosure options, not included extras.

The assembled Round Weather Clock Classic is listed at $240 from Anoraker. The shop also lists a finished Classic Wood version at $340. Check the selected enclosure and color carefully so the clock arriving at your door is the one you meant to invite onto your desk.

Photos: Anoraker and Josh Hendrickson’s project gallery. Additional feature and update details: the maker’s Round Weather Display documentation.

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