Last Updated on 26 July 2025
I searched the Internet for lists of the best weather-related movies of all time. Criteria included the movies being ranked, not just listed alphabetically, and generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).
I was able to find 24 lists. I took the 24 lists and added all their content into a spreadsheet, noting the rank of every film. I ended up averaging the rankings each movie got (there were 63 that were on at least 2 lists) and dividing that average by a factor of the number of lists that movie was on. The lowest score meant a high ranking average on many lists. The complete spreadsheet is attached at the bottom.
The movies that were on the most lists (out of 24) were:
- The Day After Tomorrow (2004) – 22 lists
- Twister (1996) – 21 lists
- The Perfect Storm (2000) – 18 lists
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972) – 10 lists
- Sharknado (2013) – 9 lists
- Into the Storm (2014) – 9 lists
Here are links to the lists I used along with dates the lists were created:
- BestSimilar – 22 Jul 2025
- IMDb: keyword “weather” – 21 Jul 2025
- Fangoria – 6 Jun 2025
- Ranker: Storm Chasers – 15 May 2025
- Ranker – 2 May 2025
- Yardbarker – 11 Feb 2025
- Stars Insider – 24 Oct 2024
- MovieWeb: Natural Disasters – 27 Jul 2024
- Letterboxd – 22 Jul 2024
- Houston Chronicle – 20 Jul 2024
- Time – 19 Jul 2024
- USA Today – 19 Jul 2024
- Vulture – 19 Jul 2024
- ScreenRant – 12 May 2024
- MovieWeb: Intense Storms – 24 Jul 2023
- Collider – 9 Sep 2022
- The Good Men Project – 24 Oct 2020
- AccuWeather – 30 Jan 2020
- Image – 2 Nov 2019
- Movies.ie – 20 Aug 2014
- Nerdly – 14 Aug 2014
- WhatCulture – 30 Oct 2012
- List Challenges: Best Weather Movies – no date
- List Challenges: Weather-Themed Movies – no date