meteoblue - Weather forecasts & radar

meteoblue offers accurate weather forecasts presented in a visually appealing, user-friendly design. 

Users can easily access weather predictions for any location worldwide

• Weather forecasts available for any terrestrial or marine point.

• Location search encompassing over 6 million locations: users can search by location name, postal code, coordinates, or utilize the GPS function to pinpoint their current position.

• 3 widgets for direct placement on the home screen.

• 7-day forecast providing daily summaries and detailed information with hourly or 3-hour intervals. In addition to standard data such as temperature, precipitation, and wind details, special features like predictability and rainSPOT offer enhanced insights.

• Meteogram displaying a 5-day temperature graph with symbols, cloud layers at varying altitudes, and wind predictions.

• 14-day trend forecast detailing minimum and maximum temperatures, precipitation levels, and chances of precipitation.

• Satellite map showing observed cloud coverage across regions like North America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and India, with lightning alerts for selected zones.

• Radar map featuring precipitation radar readings for countries including Germany, Switzerland, Romania, the USA, and South America, with more countries in the pipeline.

• where2go feature helps identify the sunniest weather near the chosen location.

• Personalized settings enable users to select preferred temperature and wind speed units.

• Offline mode ensures that weather data is stored for each location until an online connection is reestablished.

User Guide

How can I add my webcam?

To register a new webcam, please use the form provided by windy. As soon as your webcam is available on windy.com, it will also be posted on our website. It usually takes a few days for registered webcams to appear, since a manual check is necessary before activation.

How do I disable my ad-blocker?

At meteoblue, we rely on income through our userbase, either through for-pay subscriptions or advertising banners. Ad-blockers stop ad content from loading, and in turn also prevent the ad from generating any revenue for us, which is why we cannot tolerate the use of them for our website. We do offer two alternatives for users who use ad-blockers though: one of them are the aforementioned for-pay subscriptions, and the other is the whitelisting, or pausing, of the ad-blocker. Here’s how to do it:

Ad-blockers as browser extensions

Most ad-blockers are browser extensions that will show up in the top right corner of your browser. By clicking on their icon, you can open a settings window with several options and menus regarding the ad-blocker’s functions. Most of these ad-blockers will allow you to pause their blocking, either for a specific page, a domain, a selection of pages, or a time period. Other keywords to look out for are “Whitelist” and “Exceptions”. Adding a website to these will allow ads to be displayed on it. If you disable your ad-blocker for meteoblue.com this way, ads will load normally, and our ad-blocker popup will not bother you any longer.

Ad-blockers as browsers

Some browsers, like Brave, offer a built-in ad-blocking mechanism, often advertised as “speeding up loading times”, due to the ad content being left out. Those browsers usually also feature a “Whitelist” or “Exceptions” list, or sometimes even a button to pause the ad blocking.

Ad-blockers as discrete programs

Some programs, like anti-virus or anti-malware suites also offer ad blocking for browsers on the same computer. In those cases, you need to open the program’s or suite’s dashboard, navigate to the “Ad blocking” section, and look for a “Whitelist” or “Exceptions” option.

FAQ

Where is the closest weather station to my location?

The nearest weather station can be found on the observed climate page. At the top of the diagram you can find the referenced weather station. We do, however, also offer forecasts for areas which do not have any weather stations in their vicinity. Even for such places it is possible to predict the weather reliably.

Why is the location detection so inaccurate?

If GPS detection isn't available, our location search will attempt to detect your location based on your IP address. Since most IP address ranges are reserved for specific areas of the globe, locations can be estimated by referencing a database of these reservations.

In many cases, however, this estimate only works up to the closest network node of your ISP (Internet Service Provider). Depending on how far you are situated from your ISP node, the estimated location may be very close to you, but it may also be hundreds of kilometres away.

We regularly update our databases in order to make our location estimates more accurate, but because of the inherent inaccuracy of the method, we recommend using GPS when possible.

Do you offer weather data for commercial use?

We offer a variety of business solutions to provide high quality weather data for commercial use:

history+ provides consistent weather simulation data at hourly resolution, going back all the way to 1940.

If you cannot find the desired weather variable or product on our website, it does not mean that we do not offer it. Feel free to contact us via email (info@meteoblue.com) or phone (+41(0)61-551-0600), so that we can find a solution which suits your needs.