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Royalty-Free Rain Sound Effects
100k+ free sound effects, growing every day. Rain sound effects: heavy rain on a canvas tent, on a metal fire escape and on the roof of a car, rain muffled by a sliding glass door as it closes, dense hail crackling as a wet vehicle passes, wet splats on concrete and a single falling raindrop. Use them for moody scenes, cosy study and sleep edits, storm transitions and weather in games. For thunder to go with it, see thunder & lightning; for the gusts before the storm, try wind. Free MP3 & WAV for commercial use. No account or credit needed.
Generate rain sound effects with Sonilo
Describe the sound you need and get 2 free versions in about 10 seconds.
Make a rain sound with AI
Describe how heavy it is, what it lands on and where you are: steady rain on a car roof at night, a light drizzle on a pond, a monsoon hammering a metal shed.
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- Heavy Rain Downpour
54.6s9.7rain, heavy, downpour
- Heavy Rain on Car Roof Interior
58.7s10.0rain, heavy, car roof
- Stormy Rain on Window with Thunder
1:249.6rain, window, storm
- City Rain with Traffic Hiss
5.0s10.0rain, city, traffic
- Close Up Rain Drips into a Puddle
5.0s9.7rain, puddle, drips
- Heavy Rain on a Tin Roof
12.0s10.0rain, heavy, tin roof
- Light Rain on an Umbrella
5.0s10.0rain, light, umbrella
- Night Drizzle on Pavement
5.0s10.0rain, drizzle, pavement
- Rain Dripping from Gutters
5.0s10.0rain, dripping, gutter
- Rain Falling on Forest Leaves
12.0s9.7rain, forest, leaves
- Rain on a Car Windshield from Inside
5.0s9.7rain, car, windshield
- Rain on a Window with Distant Thunder
5.0s10.0rain, window, thunder
- Rain Pattering on a Tent
5.0s9.7rain, tent, camping
- Rain Starting and Growing Heavier
12.0s9.7rain, starting, building
- Tropical Downpour
12.0s9.7rain, downpour, tropical
How to use rain sound effects in a video
Match the surface in the shot
Rain sounds like what it lands on. A tent gives a soft drumming, a tin roof or a fire escape a hard ringing patter, an umbrella a close tapping, forest leaves a wide, soft hiss. Choose the clip that matches the surface nearest the camera, because the viewer hears that first.
Muffle the rain for interiors
When the camera is inside, rain should be duller and quieter than outdoors. Use the muffled rain inside a car, the rain on a windshield from inside or the rain on a window with distant thunder. When the scene moves indoors, swap clips on the cut; the sliding glass door clip makes that change in a single take.
Loop the bed, then add detail
For a study or sleep video, loop a long clip like the tin roof or the tropical downpour with crossfades long enough to hide the joins. Then add gutter drips or close drips into a puddle at uneven gaps, so the bed never sounds like the same few seconds repeating.
Rain sound effects: questions
How do I make rain start gradually?
Use the rain starting and growing heavier clip, or crossfade from a night drizzle into heavy rain over several seconds. Time the heaviest point to a visual change, like a character running for cover or the first flash of a storm. A sudden downpour with no build works too, as a jump into a storm.
What are the wet splat sounds for?
The wet rubbery splats are not raindrops: they are soft, heavy objects landing on concrete or a hard surface. They work for big drops falling from a roof, slime, mud or a comic wet landing. For real rain detail, use the single falling raindrop, the gutter drips or the drips into a puddle.
Where are thunder and wind?
Thunder and lightning have their own category, and gusts and howling wind are under wind. Here you will find the rain itself on tents, roofs, cars, windows, leaves and pavement, plus hail, city rain with traffic hiss and a single raindrop.
License
Every sound effect in this library is free to download and use in personal and commercial projects: videos, ads (including paid ad campaigns), client work, podcasts, apps and games. No account, no credit, no royalties and no revenue cap. Sonilo does not register library sound effects with YouTube Content ID. A free download doesn’t come with a license certificate; on Pro and above you can get one for any sound effect here. Use the files inside your own projects, including templates and other products you sell, where the audio is part of a larger work. You may not sell, share or give away the files on their own, bundle them into sound, sample or music packs, or upload them to other stock or library sites.
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Sounds in this library are contributed by Sonilo users or generated by Sonilo’s own AI models, and are provided as is, without warranty. See section 6.4 of our Terms of Service.
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For video, games and podcasts
Use short sounds for cuts, interface feedback and game actions. Layer longer textures under a scene or spoken segment, and adjust their level in your editor. Check the library license for the files you download.
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Working with a video?
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Generating from an agent or your own code?
Connect Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT to your account through the Sonilo MCP server and ask for a sound effect in the conversation, or drive the same models from a terminal with the CLI. Prefer code? The developer API exposes them as REST endpoints, metered in the credits your plan already includes.
Sound effects FAQ
Can I use these downloads in commercial projects?
Yes. Every file is free to download and use in personal and commercial projects — monetized videos, ads (including paid ad campaigns), client work, apps, websites and games — under the library license on this page, with no credit needed. Sonilo does not register library sound effects with YouTube Content ID. A free download doesn’t include a license certificate; on Pro and above you can get one for any file here. Audio you generate in your account follows your plan’s terms instead.
Do I need an account to preview or download a sound?
You can listen and download MP3 or WAV files directly from this library without signing in. Creating new audio with the AI generator requires a Sonilo account.
What is the difference between MP3 and WAV?
MP3 is a compressed file that is convenient for quick previews and smaller projects. WAV is uncompressed and useful when you will edit, layer or process the sound. Both versions of a library sound use the same library license.
What if I cannot find the sound I need?
Describe the sound in the search box. If there are no matches, choose the AI generation option to bring that description into Sonilo’s sound effects generator. New accounts receive free credits; generation uses credits, and available exports and usage rights depend on your plan.
How is this different from a traditional sound library?
You can start with a ready-to-download sound or use your description to create a new one in the same product. Sonilo also offers video-to-sound-effects workflows, so you can move from finding a sound to making audio for a particular scene.
Can I share or embed a sound?
Each sound has a permanent detail-page link. Use Share to copy that link, or Embed to copy an HTML audio player with a link back to the sound. Your website editor must allow HTML audio; pasting a URL alone does not automatically embed it.
Can I make sound effects for an uploaded video or through an API?
Sonilo supports video-driven sound effects as well as text descriptions. Open the sound effects product page for the available workflows, or use the developer documentation for API integration. Account generation and API usage follow their own credit and licensing terms.
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