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The global weather API for business

Build weather confidence into any application with insights from our developer-friendly Weather API and Maps subscription.

Your partner for weather confidence

Tailor API responses to the unique needs of your weather-sensitive application. The Vaisala Xweather weather API offers comprehensive global weather data: Historical records, current conditions, precise forecasts, 50+ endpoints, and support for REST and webhook response formats.

World’s most precise weather API

What makes Xweather’s API so robust? Apart from the work our developers pour into building, expanding, and maintaining our datasets, our weather data comes from numerous public and proprietary sensor networks - including our own hyperlocal sensors, thanks to 90 years in the weather hardware industry.

AI-enhanced weather insights

Xweather’s weather API combines local sensor data with advanced AI predictions to deliver precise and actionable weather insights. This unique approach transforms weather challenges into opportunities, optimizing safety and efficiency while enhancing resilience against severe weather and climate change.

By developers, for developers

Scale as you grow with developer-centric toolsets: Your Weather API and Maps subscription provides access to our weather API, raster maps, and MapsGL - plus industry-leading documentation and SDKs and optional Technical Support packages to ensure integration success.

90 years

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Weather API datasets

Real-time weather updates

Get real-time weather data and alerts for your location—essential for time-sensitive applications.

Precise, hyperlocal forecasts

Get instant weather alerts and high-resolution forecasts to optimize planning and risk management.

Historical weather insights

Our weather API provides historical weather data for trend analysis, research, and machine learning insights.

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Lightning

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Renewable

Road weather

Severe

Some weather API endpoints leverage access multipliers. These, along with temporal and regional availabilities, are listed for each dataset in our documentation.

Register for our Dev Q&A: Protecting assets with hail, impacts, and phrases

March 26, 2025, 11am CST | Join Xweather developers Lee Huffman, Director of DaaS, and Seth Miller, DaaS Core Services Lead, as they explore recent Weather API and Maps updates like the hail/threats endpoint, impacts endpoint, and Phrases API and how they can improve asset management efficacy in the upcoming severe weather season.

Webhooks and pushed data

For time-sensitive or data-laden operations, webhooks and pushed data — powered by the same robust weather API developers and experts know and trust — are recommended. Contact our sales engineers for pricing information or to build the best package for your needs.

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Phrases API

The Phrases API uses Generative AI to create custom location-based weather summaries. It converts key data into concise, readable forecasts, simplifying the integration of personalized weather insights into applications.

Raster Maps

Raster Maps is a tile mapping tool ideal for still-image weather visualizations, offering 100+ layers compatible with basemap providers like MapBox, Google Maps, and Leaflet. Raster Maps accesses are one-to-one with Weather API queries.

MapsGL

Visualize weather data in ways never possible before: MapsGL leverages WebGL for smooth, data-encrypted weather animations — powered by the Weather API, optimized for low-bandwidth use, and highly customizable.

Get in touch with our experts

The applications for weather data are virtually limitless. Talk to an expert to create a custom plan tailored to yours.

(Some) common use cases

Commercial facilities management
Perishable goods transportation
Precision irrigation
Recreational consumer applications
Supply chain optimization

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The Weather API and Maps subscription provides the Weather API data you need, when you need it — plus access to quick-built, high-resolution weather visuals with Raster Maps and MapsGL and easily-readable weather summaries from the Phrases API.

Get started with a free 30-day Developer Trial or purchase a Weather API and Maps subscription to start integrating weather into your applications. Weather API and Maps subscriptions start at $300 per month for 1 million accesses.