For organisations with offices in more than one place, a board of local times and weather is a small touch that makes an intranet feel connected - and a genuinely useful one for teams booking calls across time zones. SharePoint has neither a weather nor a world-clock web part. Here's what people do instead, why it disappoints, and a cleaner option.
The usual approach: third-party widgets
- Embedding a weather or clock widget from a public site via the Embed web part.
- Stitching together multiple widgets for a board of offices.
Where that falls short
- Public widgets often carry ads and tracking, which look unprofessional on an intranet.
- They rarely match your brand, and each office needs its own embed.
- Some need an account or API key, adding admin overhead.
- They sit in an iframe, so they're hard to size and style consistently.
The supported way: an SPFx weather and clock web part
A SharePoint Framework (SPFx) web part can render both natively. Glow Cloud Kit WorldKit is two web parts in one install - Forecast and Time & Date - showing live weather and world clocks for a single location or a board of offices, in six card designs. It needs no Graph scopes and no admin consent: local time comes from the browser, and weather is a public request to Open-Meteo with no API key needed by default. It reads none of your organisation's content.
A checklist for an offices board
- List the locations worth showing - usually your main offices or hubs.
- Choose a card design and density that fits the space you have.
- Decide whether to show time, weather, or both per card.
- For commercial use of weather at scale, add your own Open-Meteo key.
- Check the board wraps cleanly in a narrow section and on mobile.
Related
- Glow Cloud Kit WorldKit - the product overview.
- WorldKit setup guide - install and configuration steps.
- How to make SharePoint look modern.