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Weather data in a fast and easy-to-use way
We are providing highly recognisable weather products that make working with the weather data a way easier. We work with millions of developers around a clock and believe that these benefits might be suitable for most of applications, up to the complex enterprise systems.
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A spectrum of ready-to-use weather products
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Short-term and long-term forecasts, history and observation
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Any location on the globe
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Transparent pricing and licensing
Our weather products are accessible via fast, reliable APIs that follow industry standards and compatible with different kind of enterprise systems. All our products content essential climate variables for any location. Besides that, we have some special products that helpful for industries that are affected by weather condition, for instance Road Risk API, Solar Irradiance API,Solar Panel Energy Prediction,etc.
OpenWeather products
For each point on the globe, OpenWeather provides hyperlocal minute forecast, historical data, current state, and from short-term to annual and forecasted weather data. All data is available via industry standard APIs.
One Call API by call:
One Call 3.0 allows users to receive access to the various data for a specific location and includes:
- Current weather
- Minute forecast for 1 hour
- Hourly forecast for 48 hours
- Daily forecast for 8 days
- Government weather alerts
- Weather data for any timestamp from 1st January 1979 till 4 days ahead forecast
- Daily aggregation of weather data for 45+ years archive and 1.5 years ahead forecast
- Weather overview with a human-readable weather summary for today and tomorrow's forecast
For more functionality, please consider our generous professional product collections.
Professional collections:
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Current Weather and Forecasts collection
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Current state with every 10 min update
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Forecast for 4 days with hour granularity
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Forecast for 16 days that give you data four times a day at night, day, evening, and morning
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Historical Weather collection
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History archive for 45+ years back with hour granularity
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History Forecasts archive of previous forecasts made for 16 days ahead for any location on the globe
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History API with weather data for one month or year back depending of your subscription
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Statistical Weather API with statistical data by main weather parameters for a chosen date or month of the year, or for the entire year
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Weather Maps collection
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Weather Maps 2.0 with 15 weather layers, which display historical, current and forecast weather data
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Global Precipitation Maps based on radar data, satellite images and powered by ML
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Relief map as a base layer for the OpenWeather maps
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Other weather APIs
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Air Quality hourly data with Aerosols properties PM2.5, PM10; Carbon CO2; Precursors SO2, NO2; Ozone O3; AQ Index
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Geocoding API is a simple tool that eases the search for locations while working with geographic names and coordinates
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Dedicated weather products
Besides out-of-the box products, we provide dedicated weather products that also might be helpful for specific applications and industries:
- Solar Irradiance API
- Solar Panel Energy Prediction
- Global Weather Alerts
- Road Risk API
- Global Precipitation Maps - Forecast and historical data
- Weather Maps 2.0 with 1-hour step
Detailed information about all our dedicated products can be found on our OpenWeather for business web-site.
OpenWeather Weather model
OpenWeather model allows to calculate weather data for any location.
OpenWeather’s advanced ML-based numerical weather model performs at up to 500 m resolution and
allows its users to consider highly local nuances of climate and build accurate, efficient products.
The model uses a number of data sources - radars, models from global meteorological agencies
(e.g., Met Office, NOAA, ECMWF), weather satellites, and a vast network of weather stations. You can
find out more about OpenWeather model here.
How to start using Weather API
If you want to start using Free or paid weather API, please read ‘How to start and operate with API more efficiently’.
If you are ready to subscribe to our paid plans, please read ‘No-fuss subscription to our weather services’ first.
Please read Terms and conditions of sale, Privacy policy, and Websites terms and conditions of use of use before you buy.
Licenses we use for data and services.
If you are an Enterprise license holder you can request for expanded features, customisation, configuration of APIs, and more exclusive support. For more details, please contact us.
More than ever, our customer support team is at your side to answer all your questions and respond to your needs in the best possible way.
If you do not find answers to your questions about purchasing process, subscriptions, products, please look at our comprehensive FAQ or contact our customer support team.