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Weather API
Everything you need, on demand
Get quick and easy access to the world's most accurate weather, marine, environmental and climate data for every coordinate on Earth.
Meteomatics provides customized solutions based on our powerful weather API and offers the best solution in the world today. With our unique weather API, you get access to weather data easier, faster and more accurately than ever before.
Meteomatics is already improving the business and processes of more than 400 B2B clients with high-quality weather data from our weather API.
Use the full range of weather (historical, real-time, short-time and seasonal forecasts), climate projections and oceanic data: on demand via our unique weather API!
CEO
Sunflower Labs Inc.
Meteomatics provides the perfect solution for our needs. The data has been accurate, complete, easy to process and 100% reliable in all the time that we have used it.
What Is a Weather API?
An API (Application Programming Interface) provides an interface for various programming languages that allows developers and programmers to integrate the data directly into their systems in the desired format in just a few steps.
The Meteomatics weather API contains data on weather and climate. It provides access to over 25 weather models (e.g. GFS, ECMWF, DWD, MeteoFrance, UKMetoffice and many more) and more than 1800 weather parameters. Our interface is thus considered the gateway to the largest database of historical weather data, forecast data and climate data worldwide.
Benefits and Advantages of an Interface for Weather Data
Weather data is often very complex and is constantly growing with improvements in computing power and weather science. The complicated data formats for climate and weather data (GRIB2 and NC) require a lot of computing power. Computing such large amounts of data can be costly and time-consuming. Weather forecasts, for example, are delivered too late and are then mostly useless.
Why Do You Need a Weather API?
With the help of an intelligent API query, the amount of data generated when retrieving weather data can be reduced.We break down the complex data format for weather and climate data into processable data and make it available to everyone with our weather API.
An API can provide exactly the data you need to drive your business forward. Use the Weather API as an efficient tool to integrate into your programming environment and enable the analysis of weather effects or the operation of a system or plant under certain weather conditions. Our API delivers the data at a significantly higher resolution and can help you make better decisions based on the weather situation, increase efficiency or minimise costs.
What Does the Weather API Offer?
The weather API offers you simple, direct access to high-resolution, global weather data. Get the weather data that is relevant to your problem quickly and easily. Using the API you can integrate high-quality weather data into all kinds of business tools and services. The WMS/WFS capability of our weather interface even allows integration into visualizations. Open source, i.e. free, data connectors are available on GitHub for all common programming languages. The data can be output in all common file formats.
With a Weather API From Metomatics You Get:
Our weather API as SaaS: we provide the API and the IT infrastructure - you use the API
Fast, direct and easy access to worldwide weather, environmental, climate, ocean and water data
Model data (ECMWF, UKMO, etc.), station data, satellite images, radar data and lightning data
Self-developed and high-resolution weather models for unique forecast quality
Over 1800 different weather, ocean and environmental parameters
Forecast data, ensemble and trend forecasts, forecasts up to 7 months
Climate data including climate scenarios up to the year 2100
Historical data from 1979 onwards, also historical forecast data
A detailed and constantly updated documentation on API use
A flexible, fast and scalable environment: updates without rewriting code
Constant extensions and updates with new data sources and sector-specific parameters
One source, one interface: Query multiple parameters simultaneously for single or multiple sites, routes and areas.
Query data in real time with a response time of a few milliseconds
Real-time access to over 7 petabytes thanks to unique data processing technology (Meteocache)
"On the fly" downscaling using topographic maps enables 90 meter resolution worldwide, vastly improving accuracy at the local level
High resolution of the data per minute
Highest data quality: over 1640 updates per day ensure accuracy and timeliness
Weather API From Meteomatics
The Weather API is the uniform access point to a database of global weather data – for any application, any industry, any institution and any national weather service, faster and more efficiently than traditional weather database systems.
Weather Data
Weather has a major impact on daily life (consumption, behaviour, etc.) and the design of many businesses (demand, energy requirements, planning, logistics, risk management, etc.). Weather data can be used to better understand the impact of weather and help reduce business costs, improve business processes and make them more effective. A better understanding of the weather also helps to reduce the impact of natural hazards and thus prevent damage to people and infrastructure.
At Meteomatics, we see ourselves as the point of contact for the world's best weather data. The highly competitive weather forecast market requires a product with extreme quality gain. We know the market and offer a high level of detailed knowledge. With a team of experienced experts, we are able to calculate and offer weather data in extremely high resolution.
Technical Details
The Meteomatics Weather API:
Enables an infinite number of accesses per day
Offers a WMS and WFS interface and several other formats
Delivers forecasts with an average response time of 20 to 30 ms, depending on the query
Works securely with HTTP basic authentication and is HTTPS supported
As a RESTful API: Conveniently query weather data via URL
Makes everything available as one interface: historical and current weather data, weather forecasts, climate models, data from more than 25 weather models, ...
Available Parameters
Use Weather and Climate Data From a Collection of Over 1800 Parameters
Data Connectors and Formats
Variety of Formats and Connectors in Different Programming Languages
The focus for us at Meteomatics is on providing complicated weather data in a user-friendly data format. This should help to simplify the integration of the data into existing workflows. Across several programming languages, we offer free connectors on Github:
MATLAB
Python
C++
R
Java
C#
JS
Excel
Power BI
Go
ArcGIS
Julia
QGIS
and many more
Data Collection
Weather and climate data form the basis of our weather API. We collect and determine the data with the help of:
Global and regional weather models
Satellite data
Radar data
Lightning data
Maritime data
Weather drones
Weather stations
Digital 3D models
Air quality
Combined with our proprietary 90-meter downscaling technology, we can deliver the most accurate and up-to-date weather data possible.
Meteocache – Modelling Weather Data in Real Time
The Meteomatics API is powered by our Meteocache. Meteomatics Meteocache is a sophisticated background caching system and holds a large amount of observations, which allows the Weather API to recalculate the forecast with the latest available information about the state of the atmosphere. We improve the accuracy of weather data by taking into account the details of the topography. Based on a proven interpolation technique, the latest weather data from the weather models are combined with model data from NASA's 90m digital terrain model and refined to produce higher local accuracy.
The Meteocache ensures that large amounts of data can be modeled and provided "on the fly", i.e. in real time. The meteocache matches the data in time and space and ensures that the weather API can return the requested data query efficiently and very quickly despite the size and format of the original data set.
Weather API Queries
With Meteomatics, you get access to weather and climate data covering the Earth and its oceans across all time scales through just one API endpoint: Nowcast, forecast, seasonal, climate and space, historical data (up to 1979, depending on location), etc.
With our weather API, the otherwise complex weather data is played out in a simplified way and makes it usable for every application.
URL Building a Weather API From Meteomatics
Weather data can also be easily obtained via a link with our weather API. The URL creator can be used for this purpose. The URL is composed of properties that always follow the same structure.
Query Types
The weather API can be used in many ways and must deliver different values depending on the use case. Our different ways of requesting weather data make it possible to obtain the most accurate information on the weather situation of the respective location or route.
Output Formats
Weather information needs to be stored or further processed. Known output formats ensure that the weather data you obtain via our weather API can be output according to your needs:
CSV
XML
JSON
HTML
PNG/WMS,
Geotiff
NetCDF
and more
A RESTful API provides seamless access to historical, current and forecast data. THE WMS/WFS capability of our data enables integration into visualizations.
How Can a Weather API Be Integrated?
It couldn't be simpler! The weather API offers convenient access to a wide range of weather data and can be integrated into existing or your own systems with just a few lines of code.
For each programming language, a detailed description is available in our documentation. Our videos provide additional support for integrating the weather API into your environment without any problems.
Documentation & FAQ
Extensive documentation (in English) and the FAQ make it even easier to get started and work with our weather API.
Meteomatics' science and engineering teams are continuously working on comprehensive documentation that ensures users from all industries can leverage the value provided by the API for their purposes.
In addition, we offer first-class support that will be happy to help you at any time by email, phone or live chat up to 24/7.
Senior Operations Research Analyst
BKW
Meteomatics' weather API is unique in the market as it provides flexible and fast access to a huge amount of weather data in different data formats.
Where Is a Weather Data API Used?
Multiple Business Benefit From Our Weather API Every Day
Learn From Our Use Cases
The successful use of our weather API in past projects underlines the quality of our work. In complex use cases, we manage to deliver highly up-to-date and precise weather data and weather forecasts: individually tailored with the data that is really needed.
Watch our customer video stories.
BKW
Watch the video to learn how the Meteomatics Weather API makes the procurement of weather data at BKW easier, faster and more flexible, thus facilitating the integration of renewable energies into the electricity market.
You can also read the story here.
Packages and pricing
With our weather API you get permanent access to current weather data, historical data, weather forecasts, as well as industry-specific parameters and indices.
If you need individual historical data sets, current data or weather forecasts, you can obtain and download individual data sets directly from our data shop.
Determine the appropriate API package or use our weather data shop. Custom Business API packages are delivered within one business day.
We are also happy to support research institutions or universities at special conditions. Let us advise you to find the right solution for you!
Contact usFree Basic API Package
Testing & Enthusiasm
Use: Non-commercial projects
up to 500 queries per day
including 15 basic weather parameters
Forecast period with up to 10 days
historical data of the last 24 hours
Resolution global for 1 hour and 90 meters
Support via e-mail
Business API Package
Business Use
Use: Commercial
Queries individually coordinated
Choose from over 1800 parameters
deterministic forecast up to 15 days
Extended forecast up to 46 days
Ensemble trend forecast up to 7 months
Climate projections up to the year 2100
historical data back to 1979, including historical forecast data
Resolution global for 5 minutes and 90 meters
Support 24/7
Test Our Weather API
Free Basic API Package: Unlimited Use of Basic Weather Data
Our Free Basic API package showcases our weather API. Ideal for hobby enthusiasts with low requirements, the basic weather data is suitable for use in non-commercial applications. With your free account you can use up to 15 weather parameters without any time limit. You can choose from the following list:
Wind speed
Maximum temperature
Minimum temperature
Precipitation amount
Sunrise
Sunset
And more
In this package, up to 500 queries per day are available to you free of charge. With one query for each location, up to 10 parameters can be queried simultaneously.
Use the basic weather parameters for your project now and create a simple weather report for your location, for example.
Business API Package: Test the Entire Weather API for Free
Use the power of our weather API with our Business API package. In a free test account, we offer you the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the full scope of the weather API. Use all weather parameters, data from over 25 weather models or current weather forecasts for your project - free of charge for 14 days. Only historical weather data and climate data are not available in the test version.
Of course, you can get unlimited access to all information at any time by upgrading to the paid full version of the Business API package.
Start your project, trial or comparison in a few seconds: the free trial access is available immediately after registration and you can get started straight away.
CEO
Ogre.Ai
We carried out a robust verification study, which included forecasts from seven leading weather companies. The study identified Meteomatics as providing the most accurate forecast across a number of locations within Romania.
Contact us today to get professional advice on how we can also improve your business.
Meteorologist and Client Manager
Customised industry solutions
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Contact us if you have questions about specific industry applications or would like advice from our experts! We look forward to your enquiry and will get back to you within one working day.