General
AccuWeather APIs
Your gateway to the world’s most accurate, hyper-local, and globally trusted weather data. Whether you're building a mobile app, web platform, or IoT solution, our APIs empower you to deliver timely and relevant weather intelligence that keeps users informed, engaged, and prepared.
Global reach, local precision, built for developers
AccuWeather offers superior accuracy and globally-scalable RESTful APIs.
- Hyper-local forecasts, updated in real time
- Global coverage with 200+ languages and dialects
- Seamless integration across industries and platforms
- Detailed API documentation: Core Weather—MinuteCast™—Lightning
Core Weather APIs
Locations
Easily retrieve location data using:
- City names/documentation/location-keys
- ZIP/postal codes
- GPS coordinates
- Points of interest
Use location keys to access all other weather content such as current conditions, forecasts, alerts, and more for millions of locations worldwide.
Current Conditions
Get real-time observations with:
- Temperature, humidity, wind, air pressure
- Visibility, UV index, and cloud cover
- RealFeel™ temperature and weather descriptions
Hourly Forecasts & Daily Forecasts
Plan ahead with forecast intervals including:
- 1-hour, 12-hour, 24-hour, 72-hour and 120-hour hourly forecasts
- 1-day, 5-day, 7-day, 10-day, and 15-day daily forecasts
- Includes detailed weather phrases, temperature, wind speed/direction, sunrise/sunset, moon phases, precipitation probabilities, and more
Indices
Deliver lifestyle insights with indices like:
- Travel, Dog Walking, Hair Frizz
- Cold & Flu, Arthritis, Migraine,
- Running, Ski Weather, Mosquito, and more
Alerts
Keep users safe with:
- Severe weather alerts from official Government Meteorological Agencies and leading global weather alert providers
Alarms
- Threshold-based alarms determined using daily forecasts
Imagery Maps
Visualize weather with:
- Global satellite and radar images of varying resolutions
Tropical
Monitor and analyze tropical cyclones worldwide
- Active government-issued tropical cyclones across all basins
- Current and forecasted storm positions with latitude/longitude, wind speeds, pressure, and movement details
- Wind radii summaries indicating the extent of wind fields at various thresholds
- Proximity information to major landmarks or population centers
Translations
- Enables localization of weather content in over 200 languages and dialects
MinuteCast™ API
MinuteCast™
- Hyper-local minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts for the next 2 hours
- Forecast start/stop times for rain, snow, and mixed precipitation
- Coverage is worldwide
- Ideal for navigation, outdoor apps, utilities, and safety-critical use cases
Lightning API
Lightning Forecasts
- Lightning probability forecasts by latitude and longitude
- Forecasts estimate the likelihood of at least one lightning strike occurring in 10-minute intervals over a 2-hour window
- Outstanding for weather safety apps, outdoor activity planners, short-range alerts, and more
Current Lightning
- Search for lightning strikes by geographic coordinates
- Define a point and radius, or specify the northwest and southeast corners of a bounding box
- GeoJSON responses are ready to drop into mapping libraries like Leaflet, Mapbox GL, or Google Maps
Historical Lightning
- Search for lightning strikes that occurred more than 120 minutes (two hours) before your query
- Access one 24-hour period at a time, with records reaching back to January 1, 2006
- JSON response with embedded GeoJSON geometry.
Subscription Packages
Choose the plan that best fits your application needs.
Core Weather API packages and MinuteCast™ packages are billed separately, with the Free tier offering limited access to both.
Core Weather API Packages
| Plan | Price | Key Features | CPM Overage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/month | 14-day trial, 500 daily calls for Core Weather APIs with MCP access | Not available |
| Starter | $2/month | 15,000 monthly calls, Current Conditions, 12-hour Forecasts 5-day Forecasts | $0.25 CPM over 15,000 calls/month |
| Standard | $25/month | 225,000 monthly calls, 12-hour Forecasts, 5-day Forecasts, 5-day Indices | $0.12 CPM over 225,000 calls/month |
| Prime | $250/month | 1,800,000 monthly calls, 72-hour Forecasts, 10-day Forecasts, Alerts, Tropical, Imagery | $0.15 CPM over 1,800,000 calls/month |
| Elite | $500/month | 2,400,000 monthly calls, Full API suite, 120-hour Forecasts, 15-day Forecasts, 15 day Indices, Alerts, Tropical, Imagery, MCP access | $0.22 CPM over 2,400,000 calls/month |
| Enterprise | Contact us | Custom call volume, 90-day Daily Forecasts, 240-hour Hourly Forecasts, AccuWeather Alerts, Lightning, Air Quality, Satellite and Radar, enterprise-grade support, global coverage, MCP Access available | Contact us |
MinuteCast™ Packages
| Plan | Price | Key Features | CPM Overage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/month | 50 daily calls for MinuteCast™ | Not available |
| Lite | $25/month | 10,000 monthly calls, MinuteCast™ access, basic precipitation insight | $0.18 CPM over 10,000 calls/month |
| Full | $100/month | 675,000 monthly calls, MinuteCast™ access, basic precipitation insight | $0.12 CPM over 675,000 calls/month |
| Enterprise | Contact us | Custom call volume, premium 1-, 5-, and 15-minute intervals, 2-hour Forecasts, full precipitation color spectrum, Radar reflectivity values (dBZ), rain/snow/ice/mix typing, enterprise grade support | Contact us |
Lightning Packages
| Plan | Price | Key Features | CPM Overage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/month | 50 daily calls for Lightning | Not available |
| Enterprise | Contact us | Custom call volume, Lightning Forecasts, current strike data, historical data | Contact us |
Get Started
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