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How to Use the Weather API

Discover the full potential of weather data with our guides on how to use the Weather API.

Our collection of blog articles covers API basics to advanced techniques, allowing you to harness the power of weather data for your personal or business projects.

Weather API Insights

Discover the power of weather data with our comprehensive collection of blog articles on how to use the Weather API. From API integration to data visualization, our articles cover a range of topics to help you build smarter weather applications for your business or personal projects.

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Products / 1k Models

AIFS-ENS Model Available

08/12/2025 / Meteomatics customers can now access ECMWF’s AI-based ensemble weather model, AIFS-ENS, directly through the Weather API and MetX with 90 m downscaling. Designed for medium-range forecasting (up to 15 days), the model supports scenario planning and risk mitigation, particularly valuable in sectors like energy trading.

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Products / Weather API

Best Weather APIs

01/17/2025 / In this article, we have thoroughly analyzed the distinctive features of multiple weather APIs and compiled a list of the top-performing options currently available in the market.

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Products / Weather API

ECMWF's AIFS

05/22/2024 / Starting today, our users can access AIFS, ECMWF’s AI-based model, via the Weather API. Similar to FourCastNet and GraphCast, AIFS has a resolution of 25 km and an update frequency of 6 hours. Its forecast horizon is 15 days.

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Products / Weather API

FourCastNet and GraphCast

05/02/2024 / We are happy to announce the integration of the FourCastNet and GraphCast AI models into the Meteomatics Weather API, complementing our suite of weather forecasting solutions.

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Products / Weather API

Weather Data Quality

04/02/2024 / Choosing a weather API can be challenging due to the many options available. At Meteomatics, we believe that the single most important consideration when choosing a weather API should be data quality. This article explains the key aspects of weather data quality and why we believe Meteomatics excels in all of them.

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Customer stories / Energy

Turning Eclipses from Challenge to Opportunity in Solar Energy

03/26/2024 / Explore Meteomatics' groundbreaking approach to navigating solar power fluctuations during solar eclipses. With our innovative solar eclipse parameter, solar energy operators gain strategic advantage, optimizing power production and grid stability for the upcoming 2024 total solar eclipse.

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Products / Weather API

Weather API JSON

12/12/2023 / JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format that has revolutionized the way weather data is consumed and utilized across various sectors. In this guide, learn how to retrieve and parse data from the Weather API in JSON format.

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Products / Weather API

What Is a Weather API?

11/13/2023 / 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.

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Products / Weather API

Python Weather API

09/06/2023 / Meteomatics offers the best weather API for Python, thanks to its exceptional Python connector, available to all users for free.

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Products / Weather API

Weather Forecast API

08/17/2023 / Weather forecast APIs provide developers with the tools to integrate real-time weather data into their applications, websites and services. Discover the Meteomatics Weather Forecast API now.

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Tech Blog

The Meteomatics Tech Blog explores and explains the developments, news and trends surrounding data science and weather by exploring new and useful open source applications for our Weather API.

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Products / Weather API

ArcGIS Part 1

11/23/2023 / Getting Live Weather Data into ArcGIS: In this article we discuss the kinds of problems that ArcGIS can help you with, as well as how to get API data into ArcGIS and schedule regular updates so that your ArcGIS map always shows you an up-to-date forecast without the need for manual intervention.

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Extreme events

Flood Modelling Part 2

08/24/2022 / How to use pysheds to predict flood extents

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Extreme events

Flood Modelling Part 1

07/15/2022 / How to delineate river catchment areas for flood modelling using pysheds

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Products / Weather API

Google's Dialogueflow

03/07/2022 / Using Google's Dialogueflow to Create an AI Chatbot

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Products / Weather API

Comparing Weather Data Sources

01/26/2022 / How to find the most reliable API data for your usage

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Products / Weather API

Intro to Julia

12/22/2021 / A discussion of the merits of a new programming language, and a new connector to the API

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Products / Weather API

Energy Market Predictions

11/26/2021 / How to Program a Python Script for Regular Energy Weather Forecasting with Meteomatics Weather API

Products / Weather API

An Alexa Skill

11/09/2021 / How to develop a weather data voice assistant with Python

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Customer Success Stories

Our expert team of meteorologists and scientists is continuously working on the optimization, accuracy and availability of our data to deliver reliable solutions for your business. Select a customer story and get insights from our various use cases.

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Customer stories / Retail

Tech Partnership with LoweConex

09/01/2025 / The partnership will see Meteomatics weather data utilised within Conex OS, a smart building platform that helps high street brands to observe, automate and control every building in their estate. Meteomatics will provide LoweConex with weather data accurate to a 90 metres resolution, providing Conex OS with enhanced intelligence to weather conditions across the globe.

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Customer stories / Energy

NorthWestern Energy

07/31/2025 / Wildfires are now a year-round threat across the American West. To better protect communities and infrastructure, NorthWestern Energy has adopted a proactive wildfire mitigation strategy. As part of this effort, the utility has partnered with Meteomatics, a leader in high-resolution weather intelligence, to enhance wildfire risk monitoring and response. This collaboration strengthens NorthWestern’s ability to make faster, smarter decisions to safeguard people and critical assets.

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Customer stories / Met services

DWD Begins Meteodrone Tests

06/24/2025 / DWD is testing a Meteodrone system at the Meteorological Observatory in Lindenberg to collect more frequent vertical profiles and enhance short-term forecasts. The project is part of a broader vision to expand drone-based observations across Germany.

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Customer stories / Construction

Pavewise

06/23/2025 / Discover how Pavewise is transforming construction with AI and machine learning. By integrating high-resolution weather data from Meteomatics, this smart platform empowers paving contractors with predictive insights to optimize scheduling, reduce risk, and drive job site safety. Learn how data-driven decision-making is reshaping infrastructure projects and paving the way for smarter, more resilient construction.

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Customer stories / IT

Partnership with KISTERS

05/19/2025 / KISTERS has launched HailSens360 across Europe, combining real-time hail sensors with hyperlocal forecasts and nowcast alerts to protect solar farms, crops, and insured assets. Powered by Meteomatics — a leading European weather data provider known for high-resolution forecasting and API access — the solution overcomes Europe’s fragmented weather data landscape, delivering the actionable hail intelligence already trusted in the US.

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Customer stories / Agriculture

Nave Analytics

02/11/2025 / A longtime user of the Meteomatics Weather API, Nave Analytics partnered with VITech to develop an app that optimizes planting decisions. Their project received a NASA Space Apps Challenge award and will be integrated as a new service at Nave Analytics later this year.

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Customer stories / Agriculture

Reinhart

01/08/2025 / Meteomatics is collaborating with Reinhart and Alliance Ginneries to help smallholder farmers in Tanzania and Zambia adapt to a changing climate. The goal is to increase organic cotton yields by 15–20% by helping them adopt Good Organic Agricultural Practices (GOAP) and make well-informed decisions about their farming methods, all while promoting sustainability.

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Customer stories / Insurance

Orakle Weather

12/18/2024 / Planning your next outing in France? Tourism and event businesses across France offer Orakle Weather’s insurance during booking, ensuring you’ll get your money back if rain threatens to ruin your outdoor activity.

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Customer stories / Energy

UK Power Networks

12/06/2024 / UK Power Networks is driving toward its net-zero goal by creating a greener, more reliable energy network. Accurate weather data from Meteomatics enables the company to forecast energy supply and demand and balance distribution through flexibility markets. This approach ensures low-carbon technologies can be integrated smoothly, keeping the network efficient and future-ready.

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Customer stories / Agriculture

Ometeotl: Crop Connect

11/29/2024 / Every year, Meteomatics sponsors the NASA Space Apps Challenge by providing free access to the Weather API. The creators of the project “Ometeotl: Crop Connect”, a global nominee that extensively uses our weather data, explain their app.

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We provide the most accurate weather data for any location, at any time, to improve your business.

Weather API

With our Weather API you get continuous access to worldwide high-resolution weather, ocean, environment and climate data as well as historical data, real-time data, forecasts and climate scenarios up to 2100.

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Weather Alerts

Only you know which types of weather pose the greatest risks to your business. That's why we've developed a highly customizable weather warning system, ensuring that every notification you receive is pertinent to your operations.

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Weather Data Shop

If you only need one-time access to certain weather data, you can directly download individual weather data sets from our weather data shop. Here you will find a comprehensive selection of current and historical weather data as well as sector-specific weather parameters.

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EURO1k

EURO1k is an exceptional high-resolution numerical weather model developed by Meteomatics, covering Europe and parts of North Africa with a 1-kilometer resolution. It is the first and only model in Europe to achieve such fine resolution, accurately capturing even the smallest meteorological phenomena, including thunderstorms, hail, and storms.

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Meteodrones

Our patented Meteodrones offer an innovative method to collect weather data from the lower and middle atmosphere. Able to fly anytime anywhere, cost-effective, and sustainable, Meteodrones introduce a new era of precision in meteorology.

Meteodrones

Visualize Weather

Visualize all weather events in a high-resolution map view — with our web-based weather map tool MetX based on the Weather API.

MetX Weather Visualization

Energy Forecasting

Meteomatics' energy meteorologists provide energy forecasting solutions with outstanding technology for over 150+ energy companies worldwide (energy forecasting B2B): get the most accurate weather data for energy and the best energy production forecasts.

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Data Collection

We combine existing weather data with unique technologies and the skills of our weather and data scientists to bring you the most accurate weather data.

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