# Current best Weather API (2024)

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [23 September 2024 17:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212 "2024-09-23T17:40:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![Sean-McG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/sean-mcg/32/54677_2.png) [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)\
**Post date:** [24 September 2024 15:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212/21 "2024-09-24T15:35:33Z")

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Do you have a link to these weather icons please ?

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**Author:** ![Paul-Reed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/paul-reed/32/66906_2.png) [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)\
**Post date:** [24 September 2024 20:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212/22 "2024-09-24T20:00:39Z")

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> [@Sean-McG](#):
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> link to these weather icons

Looks like Material Design v7.4.47 (Which is bundled with the dashboard)

> **[Material Design Icons - Icon Library - Pictogrammers](https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/)**
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> The original. Following Google's Material Design guidelines for system icons, MDI is our largest library, touting over 7200 unique icons!

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**Author:** ![xx\_Nexus\_xx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/54ee81/32.png) [@xx\_Nexus\_xx](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/xx_Nexus_xx)\
**Post date:** [24 September 2024 23:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212/23 "2024-09-24T23:23:05Z")

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Hi @Sean-McG ,

as @Paul-Reed mentioned, the icons are from

- Material Design Icons (in-line with text)
- the Moon Phases (Top/Right Icon) I have locally downloaded from [Nasa public site](https://science.nasa.gov/moon/moon-phases/)
- and some icons (Top/Left Icon) are provided as direct link from [weatherapi.com](https://cdn.weatherapi.com/weather/64x64/day/116.png)

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**Author:** ![Sean-McG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/sean-mcg/32/54677_2.png) [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)\
**Post date:** [25 September 2024 13:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212/24 "2024-09-25T13:30:24Z")

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> [@xx\_Nexus\_xx](#):
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> Nasa public site

[Nasa public site](https://science.nasa.gov/moon/moon-phases/) This is quite a nice explainer about the moon 😉

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**Author:** ![kitori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@kitori](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/kitori)\
**Post date:** [27 September 2024 11:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212/25 "2024-09-27T11:22:30Z")

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I run [https://github.com/earthobservations/wetterdienst](https://github.com/earthobservations/wetterdienst) locally for getting the mosmix forecast data.

currently with this docker compose file:

```auto
services:
  wetterdienst:
    image: ghcr.io/earthobservations/wetterdienst:0.94.0
    command: wetterdienst restapi --listen 0.0.0.0:7890
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:7890:7890"

```

The a have a requests node which query this url:  
[http://127.0.0.1:7890/api/values?provider=dwd&network=mosmix&parameter=temperature\_air\_mean\_2m&resolution=large&period=recent&coordinates=52.0,8.0&rank=1&date=2024-09-27T00:00/2024-09-28T00:00](http://127.0.0.1:7890/api/values?provider=dwd&network=mosmix&parameter=temperature_air_mean_2m&resolution=large&period=recent&coordinates=52.0,8.0&rank=1&date=2024-09-27T00:00/2024-09-28T00:00)

The results are dumped into a sqlite table for further processing.

Here is the station list: [https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/met\_verfahren\_mosmix/mosmix\_stationskatalog.cfg?view=nasPublication](https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/met_verfahren_mosmix/mosmix_stationskatalog.cfg?view=nasPublication)

Since i live in Germany, i already pay them with my taxes 😃

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**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [27 September 2024 12:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212/26 "2024-09-27T12:02:44Z")

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> [@kitori](#):
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> Since i live in Germany, i already pay them with my taxes

Sadly, no use to me. The UK stations are mostly airports which are all in lowland areas. We are 200m+ up on the edge of the Pennines, weather can be dramatically different 1km away let alone the 50km to our nearest airports.

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**Author:** ![kitori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@kitori](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/kitori)\
**Post date:** [27 September 2024 12:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212/27 "2024-09-27T12:16:50Z")

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You can try to use the icon model? Its a 13km "grid" global and a 6km in Europe.

But right, the project is quite germany focused

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**Author:** ![hazymat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hazymat/32/108159_2.png) [@hazymat](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hazymat)\
**Post date:** [27 September 2024 14:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212/28 "2024-09-27T14:21:21Z")

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> [@Xenon](#):
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> I moved from OpenWeatherMap to Open Meteo

What were your reasons for moving? Forecast accuracy / location, or API reasons?

Do they provide minutely rain forecast for next hour and hourly weather forecasts for next few days?

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**Author:** ![hazymat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hazymat/32/108159_2.png) [@hazymat](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hazymat)\
**Post date:** [27 September 2024 14:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212/29 "2024-09-27T14:22:47Z")

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Does weathrr

> [@xx\_Nexus\_xx](#):
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> I have moved over to [weatherapi.com](https://www.weatherapi.com/)

Is that better than OpenWeatherMap in your opinion? How so? Do they do minutely / hourly forecasts etc?

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**Author:** ![xx\_Nexus\_xx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/54ee81/32.png) [@xx\_Nexus\_xx](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/xx_Nexus_xx)\
**Post date:** [27 September 2024 21:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212/30 "2024-09-27T21:58:04Z")

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for me [weatherapi.com](http://weatherapi.com) is working consistently , where OpenWeatherMap and Open-Meteo were having request issues (e.g. server not responding, Aggregate error, etc)

I'm still having Open-Meteo active but I barely look at the minutely/hourly forecast and [weatherapi.com](http://weatherapi.com) became my default as the hourly forecast is very accurate for me (as you can see in my [earlier post](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212/17) )

Open-Meteo sample:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/3/5/35183f5972771f777e402d6abd51a689a06e6ae2.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [26 December 2024 21:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/current-best-weather-api-2024/91212/31 "2024-12-26T21:58:39Z")

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