How to say “raining” in Spanish
3 phrases · Tourist, Learner, and Local levels · with pronunciation
Llueve.
🔊 YWE-veh
Literally: “It rains.”
💡 Single verb, simplest
Está lloviendo bastante fuerte.
🔊 Es-TAH yo-VYEN-doh bas-TAN-teh FWER-teh
Literally: “It is raining quite hard.”
💡 bastante = quite/enough, natural intensifier
¡Está lloviendo a cántaros, mejor quedarse en casa!
🔊 Es-TAH yo-VYEN-doh ah KAN-ta-ros, meh-HOR keh-DAR-seh en KAH-sah
Literally: “It's raining pitchers, better to stay home!”
💡 a cántaros = in pitchers, classic Spanish idiom for heavy rain
About these Spanish phrases
These Spanish weather phrases cover three levels of fluency for expressing raining conditions. The Tourist phrase is what any beginner can use immediately. The Learner phrase sounds natural in everyday conversation. The Local phrase uses authentic idioms and expressions that native speakers actually use — the kind of phrase that makes locals smile when they hear a foreigner use it.
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