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Welcome to the MET Norway Weather API v.3

Norsk versjon.

api.met.no/weatherapi is an interface to a selection of data produced by MET Norway. The data are available for use under a Creative Commons license. See also separate conditions for use of the service. Several people have developed third-party client libraries for various programming languages.

All regular users of the API are strongly recommended to subscribe to our API-users mailing list as this is the only channel on which we will communicate planned changes outside the API itself (see the archives for past notifications).

For operational status and maintenance notifications, see status.met.no (please bookmark in case there is a problem with the site).

For information on available data and how to access them, please refer to the weatherapi documentation. For a list of changes since version 2, see the Release Notes for v.3.

Data owned by other institutions than MET Norway is not available for unrestricted public use. This is specified in the documentation of each product. Examples of such products are the Nordic radar images and some satellite images. Refer to the documentation of each product.

Available products:

Alerts ⚠

Airqualityforecast 0.1
Forecast of air-quality for locations in Norway
MetAlerts 1.1
Weather alerts from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute

Astronomy 🌣

Sunrise 2.0
Calculate sun/moon rise/set for a given place

Aviation ✈

Aviationforecast 1.6
Textual aviation weather forecasts
FMIroutes 0.1
Vertical cross sections for air ambulance flight routes - Finnish test product
NLAroutes 1.0
Vertical cross sections for air ambulance flight routes
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
Tafmetar 1.0
Receive Taf/Metar from airports
Turbulence 1.1
Turbulence prognosis
VerticalProfile 1.1
Vertical weather profiles for aviation
Volcanicashforecast 0.1
Norwegian national volcanic ash products including forecast

Lightning ☇

Frost 0.9
REST API for meteorogical observation data
Radar 2.0
Radar images from various locations
THREDDS 1.0
Dataset archive including model runs and observation timeseries

Marine ⚓

Gribfiles 1.1
Serve grib files on the coast from Oslo and Western Norway
Icemap 1.0
Maps as images showing 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 2.0
Textual weather forecast for Norwegian land and sea areas
Tidalwater 1.1
Tidal water information

Military ⚔

Metgc 1.0
Deliver meteorological forecast data in METGM/C format for defined areas
Metgm 1.0
Deliver meteorological forecast data in METGM/C format for defined areas

Observations 🌡

Frost 0.9
REST API for meteorogical observation data
THREDDS 1.0
Dataset archive including model runs and observation timeseries

Other ⚙

Weathericon 2.0
collection of weather icons.

Satellite 🛰

Geosatellite 1.4
Images from geostationary satellites
Polarsatellite 1.1
Images from satellites in polar orbit
THREDDS 1.0
Dataset archive including model runs and observation timeseries

Weather ⛅

Frost 0.9
REST API for meteorogical observation data
Locationforecast 2.0
Weather forecast for a specified place
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
Radar 2.0
Radar images from various locations
Subjectiveforecast 1.0
Forecasts and analyses charts from the meteorologist
THREDDS 1.0
Dataset archive including model runs and observation timeseries
Textforecast 2.0
Textual weather forecast for Norwegian land and sea areas

News

New version of Routeforecast 2022-06-30

Routeforecast

Due to changed requirements the horizontal maps will be discontinued on Sept 1st. The only product still available after that date will be the vertical cross sections (vcross).

Since this is a breaking change and lots of stuff in the interface and documentation suddenly becoming redundant, we have decided to make a new version 2.0 with only the vcross images as can be found here:

https://api.met.no/weatherapi/routeforecast/2.0/documentation

Version 1.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed on 2022-09-01.

From our logs there were hardly anyone using the horizontal maps, but users of the vcross images must now update their URLs to the new format:

https://api.met.no/weatherapi/routeforecast/2.0/?route=....

(Also note that the new version is stricter about identification than before, so if you haven't already set a User-Agent header with contact information this is a good time to do so.)

Changes to MetAlerts and NLAroutes 2022-05-22

MetAlerts

From 1 June 2022 there will be some changes in the CAP warnings in MetAlerts:

https://api.met.no/weatherapi/metalerts/1.1/

Some of the area polygons will now be drawn freehand by the meteorologists, and will be in better agreement with the actual weather situation. We will still use geocode "county" and "municipalityId" for the affected administrative areas, but geocodes NUTS3 and iso will no longer be included in the CAP file.

We suggest that users of CAP warnings make some extra checks after 1 June to ensure their systems are running as intended. If you should find any discrepancies, please contact us.

NLAroutes

Next week, the number of available routes will increase from 27 to 86. Also, the time period covered will decrease from 66 hours to 22. This should result in a reduction in the number of files in available from 50 to 7-9 per route. Also, the number of timegraph locations will increase from 55 to 75.

To assist in sorting and filtering images, we will also be adding a new "region" parameter to the available list, e.g.:

https://api.met.no/weatherapi/nlaroutes/1.0/available.json?region=middle

The following regions will be available for both routes and locations:

north, middle, southeast, southwest, coast, old

After a short grace period to enable you to change your systems, the routes and locations in the "old" region will be removed. This is planned to be implemented on 1. July, and will affect the following routes and locations:

Total of 16 routes: AAL-ENRT, ENAN-ENAT, ENAT-ENSS, ENBO-ENVR, ENLX-ENBG, ENLX-ENFL, ENLX-ENKH, ENLX-ENRT, ENLX-ENSX, ENLX-ENTS, ENLX-XZFR, ENMS-ENRA, ENRA-ENBO, ENTC-ENMH, ENTS-ENRT, ENZZ-ENKB

Total of 13 locations: ALVDAL, AURLAND, BLAKSTAD, BYKLE, DALSBYGDA, ELVERUM, GULSVIK, NORDREISA, NOTODDEN, SPYDEBERG, TANA, ULLENSVANG, VEGGLI

News archive

Change log

Tidalwater: New harbour Sandnes, 2022-10-06

Data for Sandnes added to harbour list

FMIroutes: version 0.1: 2022-09-28

New beta test product for vertical cross sections in Finland

Routeforecast: New version 2.0 with vcross only, 2022-06-30

Due to lack of use and demand, production of the horizontal maps will end in September. Only the vertical cross sections will continue to be available in the new version 2.0.

Version 1.0 is now deprecated, and along with all horizontal products will be removed on 2022-09-01.

Sigcharts: Version 1.0 EOL extended: 2022-06-01

The old version 1.0 has been extended to Sep 1st, 2022

Sigcharts: Version 2.0 in production: 2022-01-04

The old version 1.0 is now deprecated, and will be terminated on June 1st, 2022

Routeforecast: Several IGA routes added: 2021-11-23

In addition to the 12 offshore routes in vcross, we have now added 27 new routes over land. These are prefixed with "iga-".

Other data sources at MET Norway

See free meteorological data on met.no for a complete list of data services.

Questions?

For questions regarding rights to and use of data, see our Licensing and Data Policy. For handling of personal data, see MET Norway's Privacy Policy Statement. For technical questions, see our contact page.