API Request

• Required Parameters: Date/Time Description | Coordinate Description | Weather Station Identifiers | Available Formats | Available Colormaps
• Optional Parameters: Overview | Source Selection | Behavior on missing or invalid Data | Ensemble Member Selection | Cluster Selection | Route Queries | Polygon Queries
• Meta Requests: Get Latest Initial Time | Get Available Time range | Get Colormap | Find Station
• User Statistics: Show User Statistics

GET requests

According to the REST¹ standard, data can be queried using HTTP-GET or HTTP-POST requests from api.meteomatics.com. A request can be constructed using the format:

https://api.meteomatics.com/<validdatetime>/<parameters>/<location>/<format>?<optionals>

Example: https://api.meteomatics.com/2024-11-20T00:00:00ZP1D:PT1H/t_2m:C,relative_humidity_2m:p/47.4245,9.3767/html?model=mix

POST requests

POST requests can not be performed from a browser directly but there are graphical tools that can be used to construct and test POST requests. If you are sending a POST request, which is recommended for large URL lengths (>1000 characters), follow this notation:

URL: https://api.meteomatics.com/<validdatetime>/
Post-Body: <parameters>/<location>/<format>?<optionals> in plain text

Example:

Note: We assume authentication is handled by the REST client software separately. Therefore, we omit the authentication for the rest of this document. It is possible to send the username and password in the URL (it would then start with https://username:[email protected]) but not recommended since the password is sent in plain text.

Show User Statistics

You can check how many queries you already sent and how your limits are defined by calling https://api.meteomatics.com/user_stats The same in a machine readable format: https://api.meteomatics.com/user_stats_json