The MET Weather API is an interface to a selection of data produced by MET Norway.
The data are freely available for use under a Creative Commons license, including commercial use.
See also separate conditions for use of the service.
Products
Weather
Airqualityforecast 0.1
Forecast of air-quality for locations in Norway
Frost 0.9
REST API for meteorogical observation data
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Locationforecast 2.0
Weather forecasts for any location on earth
MetAlerts 2.0
Weather alerts from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Nowcast 2.0
Immediate weather forecast for specified locations in the Nordic area
Oceanforecast 2.0
Ocean forecasts for points at sea in Northwestern Europe
Subjectiveforecast 1.0
Forecasts and analyses charts from the meteorologist
Subseasonal 1.0
Long term weather forecast for specified locations in the Nordic area
THREDDS 1.0
Dataset archive including model runs and observation timeseries
Textforecast 3.0
Textual weather forecast for Norwegian land and sea areas
Weathericons
Collection of weather icons on GitHub
Aviation
Aviationforecast 1.6
Textual aviation weather forecasts
FMIroutes 0.1
Vertical cross sections for air ambulance flight routes - Finnish test product
IsobaricGRIB 1.0
GRIB files for air traffic
NLAroutes 1.0
Vertical cross sections for air ambulance flight routes
Offshoremaps 1.0
Lightning and wave maps for offshore helicopter pilots
Routeforecast 2.0
Vertical cross sections for flight routes offshore and over land
Sigcharts 2.0
Significant Weather Charts for aviation
Sigmets 2.0
Get sigmets and airmets for Norway
Spotwind 1.1
Spotwind forecasts for airport landing systems
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Tafmetar 1.0
Receive Taf/Metar from airports
Turbulence 2.0
Turbulence prognosis charts
Volcanicashforecast 0.1
Norwegian national volcanic ash products including forecast
Marine
Gribfiles 1.1
Serve GRIB files on the coast from Oslo and Western Norway
Icemap 1.0
Maps howing current ice conditions in the arctic regions
Oceanforecast 2.0
Ocean forecasts for points at sea in Northwestern Europe
Oslofjord 0.1
Current maps for Oslofjorden and Drammensfjorden
Soundprofile 1.0
Vertical profiles in the ocean off the Norwegian coast
THREDDS 1.0
Dataset archive including model runs and observation timeseries
Textforecast 3.0
Textual weather forecast for Norwegian land and sea areas
Tidalwater 1.1
Tidal water information
Other
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Sunrise 3.0
Calculate sun or moon events, as seen from a specific location on Earth
Weathericons
Collection of weather icons on GitHub
Images
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Geosatellite 1.4
Images from geostationary satellites
Polarsatellite 1.1
Images from satellites in polar orbit
Radar 2.0
Radar composite images for various areas in the Nordic
THREDDS 1.0
Dataset archive including model runs and observation timeseries
News
2025-03-12: Textforecast 3.0 officially released
2024-04-02: New version of MetAlerts coming
2023-12-07: Intermittent disruptions of service
2023-05-31: New versions of Sunrise, Turbulence and more
2022-12-14: Changes to MetAlerts
2022-06-30: New version of Routeforecast
2022-05-22: Changes to MetAlerts and NLAroutes
2021-07-14: New beta version of sigcharts
Changelog
- Textforecast: New product
severe-weather-outlook, 2025-08-28 Meteorologistâs expert assessment of potential hazardous weather
- Textforecast: Version 3.0 out of beta, 2025-03-12
All products have now been migrated to GeoJSON and the format finalized. Last minute changes include all timestamps in UTC with timezone suffix.
- Textforecast: Notice, 2024-12-20
Note: Land forecasts will be reduced from 3 to 2 days, starting 2024-04-01.
Questions?
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