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Weather Forecast Data - Christchurch

Included in Point forecast API

Available for all plans

Weather forecasts are provided by Meteosources's machine learning technology, which uses a multitude of different weather models but minimises their errors, resulting in extremely high accuracy (read about our AI weather forecasts). Predictions are available for any location on Earth.

  • minute-by-minute forecast for the next hour
  • hourly forecast out to 7 days
  • daily forecast out to 30 days (including text summaries)
  • average weather statistics and astronomy data
  • severe weather data in the US, Canada, and EU

See the list of all variables available in our API

Example of weather forecast API usage

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Friday
26. 4.
Sunny in the morning and evening, rain showers in the afternoon. Temperature falling to 14 °C.
14 °C
wind 3 m/s
rain 17%
Saturday
27. 4.
Sunny, more clouds in the afternoon and evening. Temperature -1/17 °C.
17 °C
wind 2 m/s
rain 0%
Sunday
28. 4.
Sunny. Temperature 3/18 °C.
18 °C
wind 2 m/s
rain 0%
Monday
29. 4.
Sunny. Temperature 4/16 °C. Wind from SE in the afternoon.
16 °C
wind 3 m/s
rain 0%
Tuesday
30. 4.
Partly sunny, fewer clouds in the evening. Temperature rising to 21 °C.
21 °C
wind 2 m/s
rain 0%
Wednesday
1. 5.
Possible rain changing to mostly cloudy in the afternoon. Temperature falling to 15 °C.
15 °C
wind 4 m/s
rain 37%
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(Now) 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00
Air temperature 11 °C 14 °C 12 °C 13 °C 13 °C
Feels-like temperature 10 °C 11 °C 9 °C 9 °C 10 °C
Cloud cover 2% 2% 2% 2% 2%
Precipitation 0 mm 0 mm 0 mm 0 mm 0 mm
Wind speed 3.3 m/s 5.1 m/s 6 m/s 4.9 m/s 4.3 m/s
Wind direction W W SW SSW SSW
Wind gusts 6 m/s 9 m/s 10 m/s 10 m/s 7 m/s
Atmospheric pressure 997 hPa 997 hPa 998 hPa 999 hPa 999 hPa
Humidity 79% 49% 38% 40% 46%
Dew point 8 °C 3 °C -2 °C -1 °C 2 °C
Irradiation 319 W/m2 454 W/m2 528 W/m2 542 W/m2 488 W/m2

Best-in-class accuracy

Our data are approximately 5% more accurate for a 2-day forecast and 12% more accurate for a 7-day forecast. Forecast accuracy is based on temperature, clouds, and precipitation forecasts errors. A higher percentage means better forecast accuracy (100% -forecast without error- is unachievable).

Forecast accuracy comparision

Available data

Weather forecast API includes the following variables (depending on your subscription plan):

  • weather icon and description
  • temperature (measured, feels-like, wind-chill) in °C or °F
  • wind forecast (direction, speed, gusts)
  • precipitation (amount, type and rate, precipitation in the neighborhood)
  • total cloud cover, including different levels of cloud
  • text weather summaries in 13 languages (English, German, Spanish, French, Czech, Russian, Arabic, Hindi,...)
  • probabilities of rain, thunderstorms, frost,...
  • average weather statistics and astronomy data
  • weather warnings (in the EU, USA, Canada)
  • atmospheric pressure
  • humidity and dew point
  • sunshine duration
  • irradiation
  • visibility in m or mi
  • UV index
  • ozone
  • snow depth in cm or in
  • special variables like soil temperature, surface temperature, evaporation, etc.
  • weather predictability and uncertainty of forecast

For more information see Point Weather Forecast API documentation.

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