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QWeather Developer Services

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https://dev.qweather.com

A comprehensive weather data API providing real-time weather, hourly and daily forecasts, air quality (AQI), astronomy data (sunrise, sunset, moon phases), tropical cyclone tracking, and solar radiation. It includes a GeoAPI for POI search and city lookups, as well as historical weather analysis via the Time Machine API.

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What's inside QWeather

  1. Overview of QWeather Web API Services

    QWeather provides a suite of RESTful APIs for accessing location-based weather and geographic data. Available services include:

    • GeoAPI: Global geographic information, city search, and reverse geocoding.
    • Weather API: Model and station-based data providing up to 30-day forecasts with 1 km resolution.
    • Minutely Forecast: Precipitation data for the next 2 hours in China (1-minute intervals, 1 km grid).
    • Alert API: Official severe weather alerts for most countries and regions worldwide.
    • Weather Indices: Analysis of how weather factors affect human activities.
    • Air Quality API: Real-time and forecast air quality data, pollutants, and health guidance.
    • Time Machine: Historical weather data for the last 10 days.
    • Tropical Cyclone API: Current locations, tracks, and forecasts for tropical cyclones in China.
    • Ocean API: Tidal data for major global ports and cities.
    • Solar Radiation API: Global radiation data (DNI, DHI, GHI) at 15-minute intervals and 1 km resolution.
    • Astronomy API: Sunrise/sunset, solar elevation, moonrise/moonset, and moon phase data for the next 60 days.
    • Console API: Financial and request volume data for usage evaluation and billing alerts.

  2. Overview of QWeather Weather API capabilities

    The QWeather Weather API provides global weather forecasts up to 30 days in advance and minute-level real-time observations. It offers 1 km resolution weather data for any location worldwide using a combination of multi-model forecasting, station data assimilation, and AI-powered algorithms.

  3. Overview of Weather Indices API

    The Weather Indices API provides calculated indices based on various meteorological elements to intuitively show how weather affects human activities. Available indices include the Car Washing Index, Dressing Index, Cold Index, Allergy Index, UV Index, and Fishing Index. The API supports data for cities in China and globally.

  4. Overview of the Solar Radiation API

    The Solar Radiation API provides global radiation data, including Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI), Diffuse Horizontal Irradiance (DHI), and Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI), along with related meteorological data. The data is provided at 15-minute intervals with a spatial resolution of 1x1 kilometer.

  5. Overview of QWeather Warning API

    The QWeather Warning API provides official extreme weather alert services covering most countries and regions globally. It supports hundreds of disaster alert events and provides detailed information including: alert details, severity level, urgency, certainty, defense guidelines, alert color, warning conditions, and effective/expiration timestamps.

  6. Overview of QWeather Developer Services

    QWeather provides APIs, iOS SDKs, and Android SDKs to access location-based weather data. Available data services include real-time weather, 30-day forecasts, hourly forecasts, Air Quality Index (AQI), disaster warnings, minute-level precipitation, and life indices.

  7. Overview of QWeather Weather Indices

    Weather indices are composite metrics that combine multiple weather factors to indicate how current or forecasted weather may affect specific human activities. Supported index types include sports, car wash, dressing, flu, allergy, UV, and fishing.

  8. Overview of QWeather Alert API

    The QWeather Alert API provides official severe weather alerts globally, covering most countries and regions. It delivers detailed alert events including severity, urgency, certainty, instructions, colors, criteria, and effective/expiration timestamps.

  9. Overview of QWeather Air Quality API

    The QWeather Air Quality API provides real-time air quality data, forecasts, pollutant levels, and health recommendations for specified locations. It features a 1km resolution and supports air quality standards from over 100 countries and regions.

  10. Overview of QWeather GeoAPI

    The GeoAPI is used to retrieve precise location information required before querying weather data. It provides details such as Location IDs, multi-language names, latitude/longitude coordinates, time zones, altitude, Rank values, and administrative region hierarchies. Key capabilities include fuzzy name searching, returning multiple city results for user selection, and eliminating the need to maintain local city lists by fetching real-time updates.

  11. Overview of QWeather Authentication Methods

    QWeather API supports two authentication methods: API KEY and JSON Web Token (JWT). JWT is the recommended method for higher security as it prevents identity forgery by using digital signatures.

  12. Overview of QWeather Astronomy API capabilities

    The Astronomy API provides worldwide astronomical data for the next 60 days. Key capabilities include retrieving sunrise and sunset times, solar elevation and azimuth angles, moonrise and moonset times, and hourly moon phase data for any global location.