Weather Mods For Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty

Enhanced Weather V6

This mod is for anyone who looks at Night City’s sky and just thinks “boring.” It addresses the game’s limited environmental cycles by injecting a massive amount of variety, making the atmospheric shifts feel more natural and frequent.

• Adds over 100 new custom atmospheric transitions, a huge leap from the vanilla game’s handful.
• Introduces completely new states like thick smog and customized rain.
• Integrates climate patterns from the Phantom Liberty DLC into the main game.
• Tweaks night lighting for a more realistic feel.
• Removes the default sharpening filter and vignette effect for a cleaner image.

✅ Gameplay changes: The city feels way more alive. You’ll experience dense, vision-obscuring smog rolling in, different intensities of rain, and a general sense that the climate is actually changing instead of just cycling through a couple of presets. It makes just driving around the city a more cinematic experience.

Nova City 2 (Custom Weather and Lighting)

If you’ve ever been blinded by the sun in this game (and who hasn’t?), Nova City 2 is your fix. It’s a massive overhaul designed to perfect the game’s lighting and exposure, eliminating those blown-out highlights while adding a ton of new, handcrafted atmospheric scenarios.

• Features a perfected exposure system that prevents lighting from becoming too bright or too dark.
• Includes more than 50 custom atmospheric states, each with unique particle effects and lighting.
• Specifically designed to look its best with Path Tracing enabled, though it works fine without it.
• Integrates with the Weather Switcher mod for on-the-fly changes.

✅ Gameplay changes: This mod is a game-changer for anyone who loves taking screenshots or just soaking in the views. No more squinting when you look towards the sun. The custom environmental states, especially the stormy ones, create an incredible mood that the base game just can’t match. It’s a very dramatic overhaul.

Preem Weather (Lighting Overhaul – Probability Rebalance)

Think of this as Nova City Lite. It takes the improved lighting and rebalanced probabilities from its bigger brother but doesn’t add any new atmospheric states. This is perfect if you just want a more dynamic and better-looking vanilla experience without extra frills.

• Uses only the base game’s environmental states, ensuring a simple, streamlined feel.
• Modifies lighting to be more realistic and balanced.
• Enhances the probability of seeing more interesting conditions like rain and fog.
• Compatible with any Look-Up Table (LUT) mods you might be using.

✅ Gameplay changes: You’ll notice a lot more variety in the day-to-day climate. Sunny days won’t drag on forever, and you’ll see overcast skies, rain, and fog much more often. It’s a simple change, but it makes a big difference in keeping the world from feeling stale.

Weather Probability Rebalance

This is a focused, lightweight mod that does one thing and does it well: it makes interesting atmospheric conditions happen more often. If you feel like you’re stuck in a perpetual cycle of sunshine, this mod breaks the monotony.

• Changes the minimum and maximum durations for environmental patterns.
• Comes in three versions: Standard, Less Rain, and More Rain, so you can pick your preference.
• Reduces the frequency of endless sunny days.
• Guarantees a transition to more interesting conditions after a sunny period.

✅ Gameplay changes: It’s all about variety. Instead of just accepting that it’s sunny again, the mod ensures that the system actively works to show you different conditions. The “More Rain” version, in particular, can give Night City a real Blade Runner vibe for extended periods.

Weathermancer – Weather Select Menu

Ever wanted to be a rain god? Weathermancer gives you total control. It adds a menu that lets you switch to any atmospheric state, vanilla or modded, at any time. It’s also a great tool for fixing the common bug where the game gets stuck in one pattern.

• Adds a menu in Cyber Engine Tweaks (CET) to manually select the conditions.
• Includes all vanilla types and those from the 2.0 patch.
• Can force environmental changes that wouldn’t happen naturally, like rain in the Badlands.
• Supports custom atmospheric states added by other mods.

✅ Gameplay changes: This is the ultimate tool for screenshot artists or anyone who wants a specific mood for their gameplay session. Want to take on a mission in a thick, atmospheric fog or during a torrential downpour? Just select it from a menu. It puts the power of the climate directly in your hands.

Weather Switcher (Change Weather – Control Time – Customize Clouds)

This mod is kinda like Weathermancer’s cousin, offering real-time environmental control but with some extra features for fine-tuning. You can customize clouds, control the time of day, and even set a specific condition to auto-apply every time you load your game.

• Allows for instant, real-time atmospheric changes.
• Features a cloud customizer and randomizer for each state.
• Includes controls for time of day and overall game speed.
• Can be set to automatically apply a chosen climate state on game load.

✅ Gameplay changes: The auto-apply feature is brilliant for roleplaying. If you want to play a V who lives in a perpetually rainy, gloomy version of Night City, you can set it and forget it. The cloud customization also adds another layer of visual control that you can’t get anywhere else.

Weather Control Channel

For those who want an immersive way to control the environment without breaking character, this mod is genius. It adds a new contact to your phone the “NC Weather Channel” that lets you change the climate with a simple phone call.

• Integrates environmental control directly into the in-game phone system.
• You call the contact and select the conditions you want from a menu.
• A very immersive, lore-friendly way to manage the environment.

✅ Gameplay changes: This is pure roleplaying flavor. Instead of pulling up a debug menu, V just makes a call to change the forecast. It’s a small touch, but it feels so much more grounded in the world of Cyberpunk.

Weather And Time Tools

This is another powerful control mod, but it packs a ton of functionality into one package. It lets you change conditions through the CET overlay, the time skip menu, and even syncs the in-game time to your PC’s system clock.

• Automatically detects all installed atmospheric states, including from other mods.
• Allows you to block certain environmental states from ever appearing.
• Lets you set “favorite” conditions for quick access.
• Adds a transition slider to control how quickly the climate changes.

✅ Gameplay changes: The ability to block conditions you don’t like is fantastic. If you’re sick of the sandstorms or toxic fog, you can just disable them entirely. The integration with the time skip menu also feels incredibly natural and intuitive.

ENV Tuner (Weather – Lighting – Vignette Adjustments)

This mod is for the perfectionists. It doesn’t add new climate states but gives you an insane level of real-time control over the game’s rendering engine. You can adjust exposure, shadows, bloom, and vignette effects on the fly without causing any mod conflicts.

• Allows for real-time adjustments to shadows and highlights.
• Provides detailed control over the vignette effect’s intensity, color, and size.
• Lets you fine-tune bloom effects.
• Works at the rendering level, making it compatible with basically any atmospheric mod.

✅ Gameplay changes: This is the ultimate tool for fine-tuning your visual experience. If a particular environmental mod is a little too dark or a bit too bright, you can use ENV Tuner to dial in the settings to your exact preference. It’s like having a miniature photo mode running at all times.

Nova Rain (and Improved Ripples)

Tired of the default rain that looks like thick, white streaks falling from the sky? Nova Rain replaces it with a subtle, realistic effect that actually respects light and shadow. It’s designed to be noticeable but not distracting.

• Replaces the vanilla rain particles with a more subtle and realistic texture.
• The rain reacts to light and wind, making it look more natural, especially at night.
• Designed to complement the stormy ambiance in the Nova City mod but works great on its own.
• Optional file available for improved water ripple effects.

✅ Gameplay changes: It’s a purely visual mod, but it makes a huge difference. Rainy nights feel so much more authentic when the rain isn’t a curtain of white lines obscuring your view. The improved ripples are a great touch too, adding to the realism when you’re near puddles or bodies of water.

Mods Installation Recommendations

Most of these mods are simple drag-and-drop installs. You just extract the archive file into your main Cyberpunk 2077 game directory. However, many of the control-oriented mods have dependencies.

1. Always check the requirements! Many require Cyber Engine Tweaks (CET), Native Settings UI, and Codeware. Make sure you have the latest versions of these installed first.
2. Read the descriptions for conflicts. Mods that edit the same env files will not work together. The mod authors are usually very clear about what their mod is and isn’t compatible with.
3. Use Vortex mod manager if you’re not comfortable with manual installation. 

Fine-Tuning Night City’s Atmosphere Your Way

Choosing the right atmospheric mod really comes down to what you want from the game. Do you want a complete overhaul with new environmental states, or just a simple rebalance to see more rain? Or maybe you want god-like control to craft the perfect scene for a screenshot. The beauty of this list is that there’s something for everyone.

If I’ve missed a killer environmental mod you think belongs here, feel free to reach out. I’m always looking for new ways to make Night City even better, and I’ll gladly test out your recommendations to see if they make the cut.