Weather on Jupiter

A gas giant titan with storms wider than Earth and crushing interior pressures.

Orbital Telemetry Live

Jupiter

-110°C

Diurnal Temperature Swing 🌡️

-110°C Avg

Day Peak: -108°C | Night Low: -112°C

Atmosphere & Pressure 💨

> 2 million bar in metallic hydrogen transition layer

90% Hydrogen, 10% Helium with ammonia crystal cirrus clouds.

Supersonic Winds & Storms 🌪️

Opposing jet streams racing in alternating bands at up to 540 km/h.

The Great Red Spot: an anticyclonic storm that has raged for over 350 years.

Mission Data Provenance 🛰️

Orbital Microwave Spectroscopy

Orbital telemetry and atmospheric spectroscopy from NASA's Juno and Galileo probes.

Complex things. Made simple.

What would it feel like to experience the weather on Jupiter?

Jupiter has no solid surface. As you dive into its colorful ammonia clouds, the temperature is -110°C. But as you sink deeper, atmospheric pressure climbs rapidly, turning the gas progressively hotter and denser until it turns into liquid metallic hydrogen.

Distance from Sun / Earth

588 – 968 million km from Earth

Solar Rotation / Day Cycle

9.93 Hours

Primary Atmosphere

90% Hydrogen, 10% Helium with ammonia crystal cirrus clouds

3D Orbital Mesh

Real 3D GLB Model

Frequently Asked Questions About Jupiter

Verified science answered in plain, accessible language.

No. Jupiter is a gas giant with no solid surface. A descending probe would fall through thousands of kilometers of thickening gas until it is crushed and melted by pressures exceeding millions of atmospheres.

The Great Red Spot is an anticyclonic vortex wider than the entire planet Earth (around 16,000 km wide) with winds screaming at up to 680 km/h.

Jupiter has the shortest day in the Solar System, completing a full rotation in just 9 hours and 56 minutes, which flattens the planet noticeably at its poles.