Water cycle

Quality:

Water cycle - continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. Article “Water cycle” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.99 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 436^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 948^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3257^th most popular in all topics.

The 6023^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5444^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Water cycle”, its content was written by 86 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (948^th place) and edited by 3291 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6023^rd place).

The article is cited 65 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4878 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #36 in December 2015
• Global: #910 in March 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #89 in February 2019
• Global: #1078 in March 2015

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Water cycle		80.8144
2	Esperanto (eo) Akva ciklo		75.6514
3	Tamil (ta) நீர்ச் சுழற்சி		68.5096
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Vasskrinslaupet		66.6684
5	Chinese (zh) 水循环		66.4822
6	Catalan (ca) Cicle hidrològic		66.1625
7	Turkish (tr) Su döngüsü		56.6121
8	Basque (eu) Uraren zikloa		56.4914
9	Spanish (es) Ciclo hidrológico		44.4319
10	Finnish (fi) Veden kiertokulku		43.594

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Ciclo hidrológico		15 982 616
2	English (en) Water cycle		14 119 081
3	Portuguese (pt) Ciclo hidrológico		3 267 262
4	Indonesian (id) Siklus air		3 106 044
5	French (fr) Cycle de l'eau		2 483 411
6	Russian (ru) Круговорот воды в природе		1 581 613
7	Arabic (ar) دورة الماء		1 184 537
8	Thai (th) วัฏจักรของน้ำ		1 184 079
9	Italian (it) Ciclo dell'acqua		1 078 048
10	German (de) Wasserkreislauf		1 072 187

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Water cycle		12 030
2	Spanish (es) Ciclo hidrológico		4 312
3	Russian (ru) Круговорот воды в природе		3 010
4	French (fr) Cycle de l'eau		1 320
5	Hindi (hi) जल चक्र		1 146
6	German (de) Wasserkreislauf		1 145
7	Persian (fa) چرخه آب		977
8	Portuguese (pt) Ciclo hidrológico		909
9	Italian (it) Ciclo dell'acqua		837
10	Indonesian (id) Siklus air		774

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Water cycle		799
2	Spanish (es) Ciclo hidrológico		308
3	French (fr) Cycle de l'eau		228
4	German (de) Wasserkreislauf		171
5	Italian (it) Ciclo dell'acqua		140
6	Portuguese (pt) Ciclo hidrológico		122
7	Dutch (nl) Waterkringloop		105
8	Turkish (tr) Su döngüsü		91
9	Simple English (simple) Water cycle		86
10	Russian (ru) Круговорот воды в природе		78

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Cicle hidrològic		1
2	English (en) Water cycle		1
3	Spanish (es) Ciclo hidrológico		1
4	Basque (eu) Uraren zikloa		1
5	Italian (it) Ciclo dell'acqua		1
6	Japanese (ja) 水循環		1
7	Romanian (ro) Circuitul apei în natură		1
8	Russian (ru) Круговорот воды в природе		1
9	Tamil (ta) நீர்ச் சுழற்சி		1
10	Arabic (ar) دورة الماء		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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