Getting Started With Meteomatics Weather API
Meteomatics provides a REST1-style API to retrieve historic, current, and forecast data globally. This includes model data and observational data in time series and areal formats. Areal formats are also offered through a WMS2/WFS3-compatible interface. Geographic and time series data can be combined in certain file formats, such as NetCDF.
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How Does It Work?
The URL for an API query has the following structure:
api.meteomatics.com/validdatetime/parameters/locations/format?optionals
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Your First Query
After you receive your login username and password you can immediately start using and exploring the Weather API.
By clicking on the following example link, for the current air temperature in Berlin, you will be prompted to enter your login details.
https://api.meteomatics.com/2024-11-08T00:00:00Z/t_2m:C/52.520551,13.461804/html
You can also use our URL creator tool which will guide you through the step by step process.
Looking at the example from above:
api.meteomatics.com/2024-11-08T00:00:00Z/t_2m:C/52.520551,13.461804/html
2024-11-08T00:00:00Z
- current date and time (Z is the time zone designator for UTC time)t_2m:C
- parameter with units (temperature at two meters above ground in degrees Celsius)52.520551,13.461804
- latitude, longitude (in decimal degrees)html
- output format
For more details concerning parameters
, locations
and format
- click here for more information about the structure.
Use a Time Interval
Let’s get the temperature for a three day interval with temporal increments of one hour:
api.meteomatics.com/2024-11-08T00:00:00Z--2024-11-11T00:00:00Z:PT1H/t_2m:C/52.520551,13.461804/html
- start date:
2024-11-08T00:00:00Z
- end date:
2024-11-11T00:00:00Z
- time step:
PT1H
- time step (1 hour)
Click here for a detailed time description
Let's Add More Parameters
For more than one parameter type them separated by commas:
api.meteomatics.com/2024-11-08T00:00:00Z--2024-11-11T00:00:00Z:PT1H/t_2m:C,precip_1h:mm,wind_speed_10m:ms/52.520551,13.461804/html
t_2m:C
- temperature at two meters in degree Celsiusprecip_1h:mm
- precipitation during the last hour in mmwind_speed_10m:ms
- wind speed at 10 m in m/s
Click here for more available parameters.
Get Parameters On a Grid
Interested in a specific area? No problem, just adapt the coordinates. For example, let’s get the coordinates of a rectangle with a fixed resolution:
api.meteomatics.com/2024-11-08T00:00:00Z/t_2m:C/50,10_40,20:0.02,0.04/html
50,10
- latitude max, longitude min (upper left corner of the rectangle)40,20
- latitude min, longitude max (lower right corner of the rectangle)0.02,0.04
- resolution (latitude direction: 0.02°, longitude direction: 0.04°)html
- output format (png
orcsv
also possible)
Click here for a detailed coordinates description.
Output Formats
You can change the output format to your desired format. Just replace html
in the query above:
png
, xml
, JSON
, netcdf
...
api.meteomatics.com/2024-11-08T00:00:00Z--2024-11-11T00:00:00Z:PT1H/t_2m:C/52.520551,13.461804/json
json
- json format
Click here for available formats.
Need some help?
We are continuously innovating and perfecting our API, to ensure we deliver superior accuracy and ease of use. Thus, we have designed the URL Creator to help you build an API request, by simplifying the process of requesting weather data.Checkout the URL Creator
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Footnotes
- Representational state transfer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer
- Web Map Service: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wms
- Web Feature Service: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wfs
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