# Weather APIs for Every Use Case OpenWeather provides global weather data APIs for current conditions, forecasts, historical archives, air quality, maps, and industry-specific use cases. Explore the product families below to find the API that fits your application, workflow, or business need. ## Featured API ## One Call API 4.0 ### All-in-One Weather Data, One Simple Call **One Call API 4.0** Access real-time weather, hourly & daily forecasts, national alerts, and historical data — through a unified timeline-based API. Whether you’re building apps, analytics, AI workflows, dashboards, and enterprise weather solutions, One Call API 4.0 is your all-purpose solution. [Read the Detailed Product Description](/api/one-call-4-desciption.md) - **Current Conditions**: Real-time weather conditions including temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, clouds, and more. - **1-Minute Forecast**: Minute-by-minute precipitation forecast for the next 60 minutes. - **15-Minute Forecast Timeline**: High-resolution 15-minute forecast timeline for the next 48 hours powered by the OWHL™ hyper-local model. - **Hourly Weather Timeline**: Explore 47+ years+ years of hourly historical weather data and up to 48 hours of forecast records through a unified weather timeline endpoint. - **Daily Weather Timeline**: Access long-range daily weather timelines combining 47+ years+ years of historical archive with forecasts up to 1.5 years ahead. - **National Weather Alerts**: Government-issued weather alerts and detailed metadata from official national meteorological agencies (e.g. NOAA, EUMETNET) - [Subscribe](https://home.openweathermap.org/subscriptions/unauth_subscribe/onecall_40/base) - [Explore API Doc](/api/one-call-4.md) ### Current Weather Data - Access current weather data for any location - We collect and process weather data from different sources such as global and local weather models, satellites, radars and a vast network of weather stations - JSON, XML, and HTML formats - Included in both free and paid subscriptions ### Hourly Forecast 4 days - Hourly forecast is available for 4 days - Forecast weather data for 96 timestamps - JSON and XML formats - Included in the Developer, Professional and Expert subscription plans ### Daily Forecast 16 days - 16 days forecast is available for any location on the globe - 1-day step for 16 days - JSON and XML formats - Included in all paid subscription plans ### Climatic Forecast 30 days - Forecast weather data for 30 days - JSON format - Included in the Developer, Professional and Expert subscription plans ### Bulk Current Data - Current weather, a variety of weather forecasts and their 7-day archive via regularly updated files - Weather bulks are grouped by types of weather data and location lists (global city lists or ZIP code lists of EU, UK, and US) - Bulk files are available via CSV and JSON formats - Included in the Professional and Expert subscription plans ### 5 Day / 3 Hour Forecast - 5 day forecast for any location on the globe - 5 day forecast with a 3-hour step - JSON and XML formats - Included in both free and paid subscriptions ### Road Risk API - Specify your route and get weather data and national alerts for the point of destination and along the route - Current, forecast for 5 days and historical weather data for 1 year for your route - Weather data are available for any point on the globe - To receive information on price and get a quote, please [contact us](mailto:info@openweathermap.org) ### Solar Irradiance API - Get the solar data by particular location and calculate energy generation! - [GHI](/api/solar-irradiance.md), [DNI](/api/solar-irradiance.md), [DHI](/api/solar-irradiance.md) indices for clear sky and cloudy sky models - Current data and forecast for 15 days ahead solar irradiation data - 47+ years of historical data (from January 1, 1979) - Daily aggregation with 1-hour and 15-minutes step detalization for specified day - Available worldwide ### Solar Irradiance History Bulk - Solar Irradiance History Bulk provides historical weather data for any location for more than 47+ years back (from January 1, 1979) - [GHI](/api/solar-irradiance.md), [DNI](/api/solar-irradiance.md), [DHI](/api/solar-irradiance.md) indices for clear sky and cloudy sky models - Data is available in 15-minutes and 1-hour steps - CSV and JSON formats - Available worldwide - Available through our [Marketplace](https://home.openweathermap.org/marketplace) ### Solar Irradiance History Forecast Bulk - Solar Irradiance History Bulk provides historical weather data for any location for more than 47+ years back (from January 1, 1979) - [GHI](/api/solar-irradiance.md), [DNI](/api/solar-irradiance.md), [DHI](/api/solar-irradiance.md) indices for clear sky and cloudy sky models - Data is available in 15-minutes and 1-hour steps - CSV and JSON formats - Available worldwide - Available through our [Marketplace](https://home.openweathermap.org/marketplace) ### Solar Panel Energy Prediction Get the particular solar panel power output, based on the panel’s technical characteristics! - Create unlimited number of solar panels for particular location with the desired specifications - Current and forecast for 15 days ahead solar panel power output data - 47+ years of historical data (from January 1, 1979) - Daily aggregation with 1-hour and 15-minutes step detalization for specified day - Available worldwide ### Weather History API - Through our API we provide historical weather data for any location on the globe - Weather data have 1-hour step - Weather History API is available in Professional and Expert subscription plans - JSON format ### History Bulk - History Bulk provides weather data for **any** location for 47+ years back (from January 01, 1979). - Available through our [Marketplace](https://home.openweathermap.org/marketplace) - CSV and JSON formats ### History Forecast Bulk - Historical archive of 16-days forecast weather data - Historical forecast data is available from October 7, 2017 - CSV and JSON formats - You can purchase the product from our [Marketplace](https://home.openweathermap.org/marketplace) ### Statistical Weather API - Statistical data on main weather parameters for any day and month of the year - The statistics are calculated based on our [Historical weather data](/history.md) - JSON format - The weather data updated every hour - Statistical Weather Data API is available in Expert subscription plan ### Accumulated Parameters - Accumulated temperature and precipitation data - Accumulated Parameters are available in Professional and Expert subscription plans - JSON format - More opportunities for agriculture in our [Agricultural API](https://agromonitoring.com/api/agro-api) ### Weather Maps 2.0 3-hour step - Forecast, Historical, Current weather maps with 3-hour step - 15 weather map layers - The maps can be used as layers in Direct Tiles, OpenLayers, Leaflet, and Google Maps - Included in Developer, Professional and Expert subscription plans ### Weather Maps 2.0 1-hour step - Forecast, Historical, Current weather maps with 1-hour step - 14 weather map layers - The maps can be used as layers in Direct Tiles, OpenLayers, Leaflet, and Google Maps ### Weather Maps 1.0 - Weather maps include precipitation, clouds, pressure, temperature, wind, and more - Integrate our weather maps to your mobile applications and websites - Use as layers in Direct Tiles, OpenLayers, Leaflet, and Google Maps - Included in both free and paid subscriptions ### Global Precipitation Maps Historical data - Current and historical weather maps for the previous 2 days - Historical precipitation data with 10-minutes step - Resolution higher than 1 km - Use as layers in Direct Tiles, OpenLayers, Leaflet, and Google Maps - Included in Professional and Expert subscription plans ### Global Precipitation Maps Historical & Forecast data - Current, forecast and historical precipitation maps - Forecast is available for the next 6 hours for the US territory and for the next 2 hours for other global areas - The historical weather map for the previous 2 days - Data update period is every 10 minutes - Resolution higher than 1 km - Use as layers in Direct Tiles, OpenLayers, Leaflet, and Google Maps ### Relief Maps - The combination of a layer tint (colored raster) and a hillshade - Customizable color palette - Use as layers in Direct Tiles, OpenLayers, Leaflet, and Google Maps - Included in Developer, Professional and Expert subscription plans ### Air Pollution API - Current, forecast and historical air pollution data - Forecast for 4 days ahead with 1-hour step - Air Pollution API includes both Air Quality Index and indices for CO, NO, NO2, O3, SO2, NH3, PM2.5, PM10 - Included in both free and paid subscriptions ### Fire Weather Index Maps - Current and 5 days daily forecast fire weather index maps - Use as layers in Direct Tiles, OpenLayers, Leaflet, and Google Maps ### Fire Weather Index API - Current fire index and daily forecast for 5 days are available for any geo location (lat/lon) - JSON format - Please [contact us](mailto:info@openweathermap.org) to get a quote ### Geocoding API - Geocoding API supports both the direct and reverse methods, working at the level of city names, areas and districts, countries and states - You can cap how many locations with the same name or the nearby geographic coordinates will be seen in the API response - Included in both free and paid subscriptions ### Weather Stations - API for managing your personal weather stations - Connect your stations and transfer the measurements - Receive the aggregated measurements from the station - Included in both free and paid subscriptions ### Sign Up & Get Your API Key Create an account on OpenWeather to access your dashboard and generate your unique API key. 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