Hourly Weather Forecast 4 days

Hourly forecast

Product concept

Hourly forecast for 4 days (96 timestamps). Weather data is available in JSON and XML formats.

Call hourly forecast data

How to make an API call

You can search weather forecast for 4 days with data every hour by geographic coordinates.

All weather data can be obtained in JSON and XML formats.

API call

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?lat={lat}&lon={lon}&appid={API key}

Parameters
`lat`	required	Latitude. If you need the geocoder to automatic convert city names and zip-codes to geo coordinates and the other way around, please use our Geocoding API
`lon`	required	Longitude. If you need the geocoder to automatic convert city names and zip-codes to geo coordinates and the other way around, please use our Geocoding API
`appid`	required	Your unique API key (you can always find it on your account page under the "API key" tab)
`mode`	optional	Data format. Possible values are `json` and `xml`. If the `mode` parameter is empty the format is JSON by default. Learn more
`cnt`	optional	A number of timestamps in response. Learn more
`lang`	optional	Language code. Learn more

Please use Geocoder API if you need automatic convert city names and zip-codes to geo coordinates and the other way around.

Please note that built-in geocoder has been deprecated. Although it is still available for use, bug fixing and updates are no longer available for this functionality.

API call example

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?lat=44.34&lon=10.99&appid={API key}

API call example

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API response

If you do not see some of the parameters in your API response it means that these weather phenomena are just not happened for the time of measurement for the city or location chosen. Only really measured or calculated data is displayed in API response.

JSON

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JSON format API response fields

cod Internal parameter
message Internal parameter
cnt Number of timestamps returned by this API call
list
- list.dt Time of data forecasted, Unix, UTC
- list.main
  - list.main.temp Temperature. Unit Default: Kelvin, Metric: Celsius, Imperial: Fahrenheit
  - list.main.feels_like This temperature parameter accounts for the human perception of weather. Unit Default: Kelvin, Metric: Celsius, Imperial: Fahrenheit
  - list.main.temp_min Minimum temperature at the moment of calculation. This is minimal forecasted temperature (within large megalopolises and urban areas), use this parameter optionally. Please find more info here. Unit Default: Kelvin, Metric: Celsius, Imperial: Fahrenheit
  - list.main.temp_max Maximum temperature at the moment of calculation. This is maximal forecasted temperature (within large megalopolises and urban areas), use these parameter optionally. Please find more info here. Unit Default: Kelvin, Metric: Celsius, Imperial: Fahrenheit
  - list.main.pressure Atmospheric pressure on the sea level by default, hPa
  - list.main.sea_level Atmospheric pressure on the sea level, hPa
  - list.main.grnd_level Atmospheric pressure on the ground level, hPa
  - list.main.humidity Humidity, %
  - list.main.temp_kf Internal parameter
- list.weather
  - list.weather.id Weather condition id
  - list.weather.main Group of weather parameters (Rain, Snow, Clouds etc.)
  - list.weather.description Weather condition within the group. Please find more here. You can get the output in your language. Learn more
  - list.weather.icon Weather icon id
- list.clouds
  - list.clouds.all Cloudiness, %
- list.wind
  - list.wind.speed Wind speed. Unit Default: meter/sec, Metric: meter/sec, Imperial: miles/hour
  - list.wind.deg Wind direction, degrees (meteorological)
  - list.wind.gust Wind gust. Units – default: metre/sec, metric: metre/sec, imperial: miles/hour
- list.rain
  - list.rain.1h Rain volume for last hour, mm. Please note that only mm as units of measurement are available for this parameter
- list.snow
  - list.snow.1hSnow volume for last hour, mm. Please note that only mm as units of measurement are available for this parameter
- list.visibility Average visibility, metres. The maximum value of the visibility is 10km
- list.pop Probability of precipitation. The values of the parameter vary between 0 and 1, where 0 is equal to 0%, 1 is equal to 100%
- list.sys
  - list.sys.pod Part of the day (n - night, d - day)
- list.dt_txt Time of data forecasted, ISO, UTC
- city
  - city.id City ID. Please note that built-in geocoder functionality has been deprecated. Learn more here
  - city.name City name. Please note that built-in geocoder functionality has been deprecated. Learn more here
  - city.coord
    - city.coord.lat Geo location, latitude
    - city.coord.lon Geo location, longitude
- countryCountry code (GB, JP etc.). Please note that built-in geocoder functionality has been deprecated. Learn more here
- timezone Shift in seconds from UTC
- sunrise Sunrise time, Unix, UTC
- sunset Sunset time, Unix, UTC

XML

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XML format API response fields

location
- location.name City name. Please note that built-in geocoder functionality has been deprecated. Learn more here
- location.type Internal parameter
- location.country Country code (GB, JP etc.). Please note that built-in geocoder functionality has been deprecated. Learn more here
- location.timezone Shift in seconds from UTC
- location.location
  - location.location.altitude Geo location, altitude above the sea level
  - location.location.latitude Geo location, latitude
  - location.location.longitude Geo location, longitude
  - location.location.geobase Internal parameter
  - location.location.geobaseid Internal parameter
credit Internal parameter
meta
- meta.lastupdate Internal parameter
- meta.calctime Speed of data calculation
- meta.nextupdate Internal parameter
sun
- sun.rise Sunrise time
- sun.set Sunset time
forecast
- forecast.time
  - forecast.time.from Beginning of the period of data forecasted
  - forecast.time.to End of the period of data forecasted
- forecast.symbol
  - forecast.symbol.number Weather condition id
  - forecast.symbol.name Weather condition
  - forecast.symbol.var Weather icon id
- forecast.precipitation
  - forecast.precipitation.value Precipitation volume for the last hour, mm. Please note that only mm as units of measurement are available for this parameter
  - forecast.precipitation.unit Period of measurements. Possible value is 1 hour
  - forecast.precipitation.type Type of precipitation. Possible value is rain, snow
  - forecast.precipitation.probability Probability of precipitation. The values of the parameter vary between 0 and 1, where 0 is equal to 0%, 1 is equal to 100%
- forecast.windDirection
  - forecast.windDirection.deg Wind direction, degrees (meteorological)
  - forecast.windDirection.code Code of the wind direction. Possible value is WSW, N, S etc.
  - forecast.windDirection.name Full name of the wind direction
- forecast.windSpeed
  - forecast.windSpeed.mps Wind speed, meters per second
  - forecast.windSpeed.unit Unit of measurements
  - forecast.windSpeed.name Type of the wind
- forecast.windGust
  - forecast.windGust.gust Wind gust, meters per second
  - forecast.windGust.unit Unit of measurements
- forecast.temperature
  - forecast.temperature.unit Unit of measurements. Possible value is Celsius, Kelvin, Fahrenheit.
  - forecast.temperature.value Temperature
  - forecast.temperature.min Minimum temperature at the moment of calculation. This is minimal forecasted temperature (within large megalopolises and urban areas), use this parameter optionally. Please find more info here.
  - forecast.temperature.max Maximum temperature at the moment of calculation. This is maximal forecasted temperature (within large megalopolises and urban areas), use this parameter optionally. Please find more info here
- forecast.feels_like
  - forecast.feels_like.unit Unit of measurements. Possible value is Celsius, Kelvin, Fahrenheit. Unit Default: Kelvin
  - forecast.feels_like.value Temperature. This temperature parameter accounts for the human perception of weather
- forecast.pressure
  - forecast.pressure.unit hPa
  - forecast.pressure.value Pressure value
- forecast.humidity
  - forecast.humidity.unit %
  - forecast.humidity.value Humidity value
- forecast.clouds
  - forecast.clouds.value Name of the cloudiness
  - forecast.clouds.all Cloudiness
  - forecast.clouds.unit %
- forecast.visibility
  - forecast.visibility.value Average visibility, metres. The maximum value of the visibility is 10km

We provide a broad variety of products such as One Call API 3.0, Solar Irradiance & Energy Prediction service, Road Risk API, Air Pollution API and solutions for advanced weather parameters like solar irradiance data, UVI, dew point, government weather alerts, etc. Please review our product list page and find more info in the product documentation and pricing pages.

List of weather condition codes

List of weather condition codes with icons (range of thunderstorm, drizzle, rain, snow, clouds, atmosphere etc.)

Min/max temperature in our weather API

Please do not confuse min/max parameters in our weather APIs.

In Hourly forecast API, Current weather API and 5 day / 3 hour forecast API - temp_min and temp_max are optional parameters mean min / max temperature in the city at the current moment just for your reference. For large cities and megalopolises geographically expanded it might be applicable. In most cases both temp_min and temp_max parameters have the same volume as 'temp'. Please use temp_min and temp_max parameters in current weather API optionally.
In 16 Day forecast - min and max mean maximum and minimum temperature in the day.

Example of current weather API response

"main":{
   "temp":306.15, //current temperature
   "pressure":1013,
   "humidity":44,
   "temp_min":306.15, //min current temperature in the city
   "temp_max":306.15 //max current temperature in the city
   },

For comparison look at example of daily forecast weather API response:

Example of daily forecast weather API response

"dt":1406080800,
"temp":{
     "day":297.77,  //daily averaged temperature
     "min":293.52, //daily min temperature
     "max":297.77, //daily max temperature
     "night":293.52, //night temperature
     "eve":297.77, //evening temperature
     "morn":297.77}, //morning temperature

Other features

Geocoding AP

Requesting API calls by geographical coordinates is the most accurate way to specify any location. If you need to convert city names and zip-codes to geo coordinates and the other way around automatically, please use our Geocoding API.

Built-in geocoding

Please use Geocoder API if you need automatic convert city names and zip-codes to geo coordinates and the other way around.

Please note that API requests by city name, zip-codes and city id have been deprecated. Although they are still available for use, bug fixing and updates are no longer available for this functionality.

Built-in API request by city name

You can search weather forecast for 4 days (96 hours) with data every hour by city name. All weather data can be obtained in JSON and XML formats.

API call

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?q={city name}&appid={API key}

API call

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?q={city name},{country code}&appid={API key}

API call

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?q={city name},{state code},{country code}&appid={API key}

Parameters
`q`	required	city name, state code and country code divided by comma, use ISO 3166 country codes. You can specify the parameter not only in English. In this case, the API response should be returned in the same language as the language of requested location name if the location is in our predefined list of more than 200,000 locations.
`appid`	required	Your unique API key (you can always find it on your account page under the "API key" tab)
`mode`	optional	Data format. Possible values are `json` and `xml`. If the `mode` parameter is empty the format is JSON by default. Learn more
`cnt`	optional	A number of timestamps in response. Learn more
`lang`	optional	Language code. Learn more

API call examples

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?q=London,us&mode=xml&appid={API key}

API call examples

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There is a possibility to receive a central district of the city/town with its own parameters (geographic coordinates/id/name) in API response. Please see the example below.

Example of API response

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?q=München,DE&appid={API key}

Example of API response

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Built-in API request by city ID

You can search weather forecast for 4 days with data every hour by city ID.

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

We recommend to call API by city ID to get unambiguous result for your city.

API call

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?id={city ID}&appid={API key}

Parameters
`id`	required	city ID
`appid`	required	Your unique API key (you can always find it on your account page under the "API key" tab)
`mode`	optional	Data format. Possible values are `json` and `xml`. If the `mode` parameter is empty the format is JSON by default. Learn more
`cnt`	optional	A number of timestamps in response. Learn more
`lang`	optional	Language code. Learn more

API call example

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?id=524901&appid={API key}

API call example

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Built-in API request by ZIP code

Please note if country is not specified then the search works for USA as a default.

API call

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?zip={zip code},{country code}&appid={API key}

Parameters
`zip`	required	Zip code
`appid`	required	Your unique API key (you can always find it on your account page under the "API key" tab)
`mode`	optional	Data format. Possible values are `json` and `xml`. If the `mode` parameter is empty the format is JSON by default. Learn more
`cnt`	optional	A number of timestamps in response. Learn more
`lang`	optional	Language code

API call example

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?zip=94040,us&appid={API key}

API call example

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Format

JSON format is used by default. To get data in XML format just set up mode = xml.

Parameters
`mode`	optional	Data format. Possible values are `json` and `xml`. If the `mode` parameter is empty the format is JSON by default.

JSON

API call examples

api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London&appid={API key}

API call examples

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XML

Example of API response

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

Example of API response

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Limitation of result

To limit number of listed cities please setup cnt parameter that specifies the number of timestamps returned.

Parameters
`cnt`	optional	A number of timestamps in response

cnt=3

API call example

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?lat=57&lon=-2.15{API key}&cnt=3

API call example

{
  "cod": "200",
  "message": 0,
  "cnt": 3,
  "list": [
    {
      "dt": 1647356400,
      "main": {
        "temp": 281.98,
        "feels_like": 278.65,
        "temp_min": 280.57,
        "temp_max": 281.98,
        "pressure": 1014,
        "sea_level": 1014,
        "grnd_level": 1014,
        "humidity": 81,
        "temp_kf": 1.41
      },
      "weather": [
        {
          "id": 804,
          "main": "Clouds",
          "description": "overcast clouds",
          "icon": "04d"
        }
      ],
      "clouds": {
        "all": 100
      },
      "wind": {
        "speed": 6.78,
        "deg": 184,
        "gust": 12.14
      },
      "visibility": 10000,
      "pop": 0.34,
      "sys": {
        "pod": "d"
      },
      "dt_txt": "2022-03-15 15:00:00"
    },
    {
      "dt": 1647360000,
      "main": {
        "temp": 281.8,
        "feels_like": 278.45,
        "temp_min": 281.06,
        "temp_max": 281.8,
        "pressure": 1014,
        "sea_level": 1014,
        "grnd_level": 1014,
        "humidity": 79,
        "temp_kf": 0.74
      },
      "weather": [
        {
          "id": 804,
          "main": "Clouds",
          "description": "overcast clouds",
          "icon": "04d"
        }
      ],
      "clouds": {
        "all": 100
      },
      "wind": {
        "speed": 6.68,
        "deg": 186,
        "gust": 11.8
      },
      "visibility": 10000,
      "pop": 0.28,
      "sys": {
        "pod": "d"
      },
      "dt_txt": "2022-03-15 16:00:00"
    },
    {
      "dt": 1647363600,
      "main": {
        "temp": 281.58,
        "feels_like": 278.29,
        "temp_min": 280.99,
        "temp_max": 281.58,
        "pressure": 1014,
        "sea_level": 1014,
        "grnd_level": 1014,
        "humidity": 79,
        "temp_kf": 0.59
      },
      "weather": [
        {
          "id": 804,
          "main": "Clouds",
          "description": "overcast clouds",
          "icon": "04d"
        }
      ],
      "clouds": {
        "all": 100
      },
      "wind": {
        "speed": 6.33,
        "deg": 181,
        "gust": 11.26
      },
      "visibility": 10000,
      "pop": 0.24,
      "sys": {
        "pod": "d"
      },
      "dt_txt": "2022-03-15 17:00:00"
    }
  ],
  "city": {
    "id": 2641549,
    "name": "Newtonhill",
    "coord": {
      "lat": 57,
      "lon": -2.15
    },
    "country": "GB",
    "population": 3284,
    "timezone": 0,
    "sunrise": 1647325488,
    "sunset": 1647367827
  }
}

Units of measurement

standard, metric, and imperial units are available. List of all API parameters with available units.

Parameters
`units`	optional	Units of measurement. `metric`, `imperial`. When you do not use units parameter, format is Standard by default

Temperature is available in Fahrenheit, Celsius and Kelvin units.

List of all API parameters with units openweathermap.org/weather-data

Standard

API call examples

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?lat=57&lon=-2.15&appid={API key}

API call examples

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Example of API response

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?lat=57&lon=-2.15&appid={API key}&units=metric

Example of API response

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Example of API response

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?lat=57&lon=-2.15&appid={API key}&units=imperial

Example of API response

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Multilingual support

You can use lang parameter to get the output in your language. Translation is applied for the city name and description fields.

API call

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?lat=57&lon=-2.15&appid={API key}&lang={lang}

Parameters
`lang`	optional	Language code

API call example

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?lat=57&lon=-2.15&lang=zh_cn&appid={API key}

API call example

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We support the following languages that you can use with the corresponded lang values:

sq Albanian
af Afrikaans
ar Arabic
az Azerbaijani
eu Basque
be Belarusian
bg Bulgarian
ca Catalan
zh_cn Chinese Simplified
zh_tw Chinese Traditional
hr Croatian
cz Czech
da Danish
nl Dutch
en English
fi Finnish
fr French
gl Galician
de German
el Greek
he Hebrew
hi Hindi
hu Hungarian
is Icelandic
id Indonesian
it Italian
ja Japanese
kr Korean
ku Kurmanji (Kurdish)
la Latvian
lt Lithuanian
mk Macedonian
no Norwegian
fa Persian (Farsi)
pl Polish
pt Portuguese
pt_br Português Brasil
ro Romanian
ru Russian
sr Serbian
sk Slovak
sl Slovenian
sp, es Spanish
sv, se Swedish
th Thai
tr Turkish
ua, uk Ukrainian
vi Vietnamese
zu Zulu

Call back function for JavaScript code

To use JavaScript code you can transfer callback functionName to JSONP callback.

API call example

https://pro.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/hourly?lat=57&lon=-2.15&callback=test&appid={API key}

API call example

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