API Features
Global current weather, forecasts, historical weather data, air quality, alerts, and maps in one developer-friendly weather platform.
Global Weather for Operational Data Products
Weatherbit combines live observations, global forecast models, historical station records, radar, satellite, and reanalysis data so teams can build reliable weather-aware products without stitching together multiple providers.
Global Current Weather
Retrieve current observations for any location worldwide, updated every 5-30 minutes based on local reporting frequency.
Forecasts from Trusted Models
Access daily, hourly, and minutely forecasts powered by global and regional weather models, radar, station observations, and machine learning.
Historical Weather Data
Build with gap-free historical weather data sourced from stations, radar, satellite, and atmospheric reanalysis products.
Air Quality and Pollen
Add current, forecast, and historical air quality data for major pollutants, AQI, and pollen levels where available.
Alerts, Lightning, and Maps
Monitor severe weather alerts, live and historical lightning, plus weather map tiles for precipitation, snow, clouds, and temperature.
Developer Ready
Query by latitude and longitude, city name, city ID, station ID, airport ICAO code, or postal code using clear JSON API responses.
Current Weather and Forecasts
Use Weatherbit to power live weather displays, dispatch workflows, routing decisions, risk monitoring, agriculture tools, energy analytics, and forecast-driven applications.
Current Weather Data
The Current Weather API returns observations for any location in the world. Data sources include METAR reporting stations, NOAA MADIS station data, weather radar, satellite, and NOAA RTMA for the continental United States.
- Weather data updates every 5-30 minutes based on reporting frequency.
- Severe weather alerts are available for the US, Canada, EU member nations, and Israel.
- Current air quality includes PM2.5, PM10, CO, SO2, NO2, O3, AQI, and pollen levels where available.
- Current lightning data provides live global strikes sourced from geostationary satellites and radar.
- Weather maps provide global tile layers for precipitation, snowfall, cloud cover, and temperature.
Weather Forecasts
Weatherbit forecast APIs combine the world's most accurate weather models, including GFS, ECMWF, DWD ICON, NOAA HRRR, JMA, ACCESS, and regional models, with station and radar observations.
- 16 day daily forecasts for planning and consumer weather applications.
- Up to 240 hour hourly forecasts for operational workflows.
- 60 minute minutely precipitation forecasts for rain and snow nowcasting.
Weather Fields Available Across Current and Forecast APIs
- Temperature and apparent temperature
- Dew point and relative humidity
- Pressure and visibility
- Wind speed, direction, and gusts
- Cloud coverage and weather conditions
- Precipitation, snowfall, and snow depth
- Solar radiation and UV index
- Air quality, AQI, pollen, and lightning
Historical Weather Data for AI
Train machine learning models, backtest decision systems, verify forecasts, and create climate baselines with consistent historical weather data for any location.
Gap-Free Training Data
Historical weather data is backfilled and quality controlled with a guaranteed 99.95% availability for primary fields including temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, dew point, cloud cover, solar radiation, precipitation, and snowfall.
Multiple Time Steps
Choose daily, hourly, or sub-hourly 15 minute historical data depending on model resolution, product experience, and operational decision timing.
Specialized Data Products
Extend historical analysis with climate normals, air quality, agriculture fields, cooling and heating degree days, energy fields, and lightning history.
Weather Fields Available for Historical Data
Review coverage, sources, intervals, and historical data products in more detail.
- Temperature and apparent temperature
- Dew point and relative humidity
- Pressure and visibility
- Wind speed, direction, and gusts
- Cloud coverage and weather conditions
- Precipitation, snowfall, and snow depth
- Solar radiation and UV index
- Evapotranspiration and degree days
Built for model development and validation
Weatherbit historical APIs are designed for datasets that need reliable coverage, consistent fields, and clean location-based access. Teams use the data for forecast post-processing, demand prediction, insurance analytics, energy load modeling, agriculture risk scoring, and weather impact analysis.
Sources beyond station observations
Historical products combine station data with radar, satellite precipitation, atmospheric reanalysis, and interpolation methods. That blend helps cover areas with limited station density while keeping major weather parameters complete.
Available APIs
Open the documentation for the endpoint that matches your application.
Air Quality
Business/EnterpriseAg-Weather
Business/EnterpriseEnergy API (Degree Day API)
Business/EnterpriseCustom Reports
Utility and Account
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