10 Best Falling Snow Effects Using JavaScript & CSS

Falling snow has always been something we love seeing during the winter holiday season. If you need help adding a snowfall effect to your website this winter, then this article is for you.

There are several ways you can add Christmas and winter festivities to your web page. One of the best ideas is to use a snowfall effect to create a wintery atmosphere on your page. 

To implement this idea, you will need to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to add snowflake elements to your web page and create the desired falling effects.

In this post, you will find the 10 best JavaScript and CSS libraries that enable you to easily add falling snow effects to your website and web apps. Feel free to download and use them to create visual animations that simulate snowflakes falling on your page.

Table of contents

• jQuery Snowfall Animation Plugins
• Vanilla JS Snowfall Animation Libraries
• Pure CSS Snowfall Animations

Best jQuery Snowfall Animation Plugins

Simple Falling Snow Effect with jQuery and CSS3 - let-it-snow

let-it-snow is a simple to use jQuery script to add CSS3 powered snowflakes falling animations on your web page for upcoming holidays.

[Demo] [Download]

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Fullscreen Snow Falling Effect With jQuery - Snowfall

Yet another jQuery snowfall plugin which makes custom snowflakes falling from the top and auto fades out when they're about to reach the bottom of the screen.

[Demo] [Download]

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Merry Christmas Snow Falling Effect With jQuery - snow.js

Yet another Merry Christmas snow falling effect implemented in jQuery that is fully configurable and allows you to use any icons/characters for the snowflakes.

[Demo] [Download]

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Customizable Snow Falling Effect With jQuery And CSS3 - Flurry

Yet another jQuery plugin used for displaying a highly customizable, CSS3 animated snow falling effect with rotating snowflakes on the webpage.

[Demo] [Download]

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jQuery Plugin To Create Snowfall Animations On Your Web Page - Snowfall

Snowfall is a jQuery plugin designed for winter or Christmas themed website that helps you add amazing snow falling effects on your web page.

[Demo] [Download]

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Best Vanilla JS Snowfall Animation Libraries

Minimalist Falling Snow Effect with Pure JavaScript – Snow.js

Just another pure JavaScript implementation of simple snowfall effect that uses pure HTML/CSS for snowflakes.

[Demo] [Download]

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Configurable Snow Falling Effects In JavaScript – snow.js

A small JavaScript plugin that makes use of HTML5 canvas drawing API to create a configurable snow falling effect on the webpage.

[Demo] [Download]

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Small JavaScript Plugin For Canvas Based Snow Falling Effect – canvas-snow.js

A lightweight JavaScript library which will apply a snowfall animation to a specific element. Based on HTML5 canvas element and requestAnimationFrame.

[Demo] [Download]

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Best CSS Only Snowfall Animations

CSS Only Snow Falling Effect

A CSS only snow falling effect for the winter & holiday theme of your website.

[Demo] [Download]

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Snow Falling Animation Using Only CSS

Yet another snow falling animation written entirely in CSS/CSS3. No image, canvas, and 3rd-party libraries required.

[Demo] [Download]

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