Technical Documentation

Technical Documentation

  • Weather APIs
  • Services
  • Meteo
  • Blog

›Data Sources

Variables

  • Weather Variables
  • Pictograms

Data Sources

  • Datasets
  • Satellite & Radar Providers
  • Measurement Providers

Measurement Providers

meteoblue uses real time measurement data from different providers for multiple purpose like our weather observation maps, mLM and also provides the measurement data itself. Furthermore, the data is used for nowcasting.

The original data is coming from the following providers:

NameAttributionSpatial CoverageTemporal CoverageTemporal ResolutionApproximate Number of StationsLicenseNear real time
DWD 10 Minute
dwdClimate10Minute
DWDGermany1970-01-01 until now10 min1000Restricted Useyes
DWD Hourly
dwdClimateDaily
DWDGermany1970-01-01 until now1 day1800Restricted Useno
DWD Daily
dwdClimateHourly
DWDGermany1970-01-01 until now1 hour1000Restricted Useno
DWD Points of Interest
dwdPoi
DWDGermany2020-01-21 until now1 hour1000Restricted Useyes
Swiss Hydro Data
hydroDataCH
FOENWater Bodies in Switzerland2020-09-16 until now10 min85Restricted Useyes
Japan Meteorological Agency
jma
JMAJapan2021-08-23 until now10 min1000Restricted Useyes
Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System
madis
NCEPGlobal2005-01-01 until nowirregular20000Restricted Use$^1$yes
Met Office UK
metOffice
Met OfficeUK2020-09-08 until now1 hour140Restricted Useyes
Meteorological Aerodrome Reports
metar
NOAAGlobal2017-02-14 until nowirregular6000Restricted Useyes
Meteorological Service of Canada
msc
Weather CanadaCanada2020-04-30 until nowirregular982Restricted Useyes
MeteoSchweiz
meteoSchweiz
MeteoSchweizSwitzerland2020-04-20 until now10 min159Restricted Useyes
Synop
synop
NOAAGlobal2021-04-01 until nowirregular6600Restricted Useyes
Global Summary of the Day
gsod
NOAAGlobal1980-01-01 until now1 day12000Restricted Useno
Integrated Surface Database
isd
NOAAGlobal1980-01-01 until now1 hour13000Restricted Useno

$^1$We are only using the publicly available providers of MADIS, in accordance to this page.

Last updated on 11/23/2021
← Satellite & Radar Providers
meteoblue
WebsiteB2C ProductsAPI ProductsAPI Pricing
Weather APIs
IntroductionAPI+Package APIImage APIDataset APIMaps APIFurther APIs
Services
EnergyWeather StationsClimateOther Transmissions
Meteo
VariablesData Sources
Other
BlogContact
Imprint | Privacy | Contact | ISO 9001:2015 certificate
meteoblue AG © 2006 - 2023