Weather Forecast API

We are glad to announce our new API version for managing your personal weather stations – Weather Stations API 3.0 (beta). It went through some essential changes in comparison with the previous version.

Access current weather data for any location on Earth including over 200,000 cities! Current weather is frequently updated based on global models and data from more than 40,000 weather stations. Data is available in JSON, XML, or HTML format.

http://www.softwareschule.ch/examples/weatherapp47.txt

The main improvement is that users now have more flexible control of their stations and allowed to share and transfer data related to them. New API in RESTful style makes this process easy and convenient. In the previous version user’s account was limited to single station, but with our new version users are allowed to add as many stations as they need.

API call:

api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q={city name}

api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q={city name},{country code}

Parameters:

q city name and country code divided by comma, use ISO 3166 country codes

Examples of API calls:

api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London

api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London,uk

http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?q=bern&units=metric&APPID=key

{"cod":"200","message":0,"cnt":40,"list":[{"dt":1572814800,"main":{"temp":7.9
4,"temp_min":6.7,"temp_max":7.94,"pressure":996,"sea_level":996,"grnd_level":926,
"humidity":91,"temp_kf":1.24},"weather":[{"id":500,"main":
"Rain","description":"light rain","icon":"10n"}],"clouds":{"all":93},
"wind":{"speed":5.25,"deg":228},"rain":{"3h":1},"sys":{"pod":"n"},
"dt_txt":"2019-11-03 21:00:00"},{"dt":1572825600,"main":{"temp":7.68,
"temp_min":6.75,"temp_max":7.68,"pressure":997,"sea_level":997,"grnd_level":927,
"humidity":93,"temp_kf":0.93},"weather":[{"id":500,"main":"Rain","description":
"light rain","icon":"10n"}],"clouds":{"all":96},"wind":{"speed":3.01,"deg":200},
"rain":{"3h":2.38},"sys":{"pod":"n"},"dt_txt":"2019-11-04 00:00:00"},{"dt":1572836400,"main":

By city ID

Description:

You can call by city ID. API responds with exact result.

List of city ID city.list.json.gz can be downloaded here http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/

Parameters:

id City ID

Examples of API calls:

api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=2172797

api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London

api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London,uk

http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?q=bern&units=metric&APPID=key

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