Weather Forecast Data - Reading
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
Example of weather forecast API usage
| (Now) | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air temperature | 79 °F | 76 °F | 73 °F | 68 °F | 65 °F |
| Feels-like temperature | 79 °F | 81 °F | 78 °F | 72 °F | 69 °F |
| Cloud cover | 45% | 45% | 45% | 45% | 45% |
| Precipitation | 0 in | 0 in | 0 in | 0 in | 0 in |
| Wind speed | 6.3 mph | 3.9 mph | 2.9 mph | 2.9 mph | 3.1 mph |
| Wind direction | WNW | W | SSW | S | SSW |
| Wind gusts | 12 mph | 8 mph | 4 mph | 4 mph | 4 mph |
| Atmospheric pressure | 29.9 in | 30 in | 30 in | 30 in | 30 in |
| Humidity | 55% | 64% | 65% | 66% | 69% |
| Dew point | 62 °F | 63 °F | 61 °F | 57 °F | 55 °F |
| Irradiation | 204 W/m2 | 41 W/m2 | 0 W/m2 | 0 W/m2 | 0 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).
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.
