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Free Nature Sounds for Videos, Podcasts, Sleep, and Games

Rain, thunderstorms, wind, forests, rivers and ocean winds. Also birds, crickets, frogs, snow, water and other outdoor recordings.

75 free nature sounds

Get 39 of them in one ZIP ↓Put on hours of rain and fire sounds ↓

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Get the Nature kit

The top 39 of the 75 sounds on this page in one ZIP file (40 at most, and none over 2 minutes). It comes with a list of every sound and the license, and the file names have no spaces, so they drop right into a game engine or an editor.

Free for personal and commercial use, no sign-up. MP3 is the smallest. Want trimmed and mastered 24-bit WAVs? See the sound packs.

More nature sounds, A–Z

About these nature sounds

Put nature sounds under a video and it feels like you're really outside. Use them in documentaries, meditation apps or RPG ambience, or just to set the scene.

Every sound here is free for personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Read the license.

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