Real-time Weather

Platform: API iOS Android

Get real-time weather data for 200,000+ cities around the world, including temperature, wind, humidity, pressure, precipitation, visibility, etc.

Note: The real-time data are all near real-time data. Compared with the real physical world, it will be delayed by 5-20 minutes. Please determine the accurate time corresponding to the data according to the obsTime in the data.

Request URL

https://api.qweather.com/v7/weather/now

For Free subscription, change the API Host to devapi.qweather.com. See data available for Free subscription.

Request Parameters

All parameters are separated by &. If no optional parameters are set, the default value will be used.

location(required)The location to be queried, support LocationID or comma-separated longitude and latitude (decimal, up to 2 decimal places), LocationID can be obtained by GeoAPI. Example: location=101010100 or location=116.41,39.92
langMulti-language setting, please see Language to find out how our multi-language works and how to set up.
unitSet weather data unit, the available value are unit=m for metric(default) and unit=i for imperial. See more about Unit.

Request Example

curl -X GET --compressed \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer your_token' \
'https://api.qweather.com/v7/weather/now?location=101010100'

Replace your_token with your JWT or learn more about Authentication

Response

The response is in JSON format and is Gzip compressed.

{
  "code": "200",
  "updateTime": "2020-06-30T22:00+08:00",
  "fxLink": "http://hfx.link/2ax1",
  "now": {
    "obsTime": "2020-06-30T21:40+08:00",
    "temp": "24",
    "feelsLike": "26",
    "icon": "101",
    "text": "多云",
    "wind360": "123",
    "windDir": "东南风",
    "windScale": "1",
    "windSpeed": "3",
    "humidity": "72",
    "precip": "0.0",
    "pressure": "1003",
    "vis": "16",
    "cloud": "10",
    "dew": "21"
  },
  "refer": {
    "sources": [
      "QWeather",
      "NMC",
      "ECMWF"
    ],
    "license": [
      "QWeather Developers License"
    ]
  }
}

code See Status Code
updateTime API last update time
fxLink Responsive web page of this data, for embedded in website or APP
now.obsTime Observation time
now.temp temperature
now.feelsLike Feels like temperature
now.icon Icon code for weather conditions. See also QWeather Icons
now.text Weather conditions
now.wind360 Wind direction in azimuth degree
now.windDir Wind direction
now.windScale Wind scale
now.windSpeed Wind speed, KM/H
now.humidity Relative humidity in percent
now.precip Accumulated precipitation in the last hour
now.pressure Atmospheric pressure, hPa
now.vis Visibility, KM
now.cloud Cloud cover in percent, may be null
now.dew Dew point temperature, may be null
refer.sources Data source and other statements, may be null
refer.license Data license, may be null