Real-time Weather

Get real-time weather data for 500,000+ 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.

Endpoint#

GET /v7/weather/now

Parameters#

Query parameters

  • 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
  • lang Multi-language setting, please see Language to find out how our multi-language works and how to set up.

Request example#

curl -X GET --compressed \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer your_token' \
'https://your-api-host/v7/weather/now?location=116.41%2C39.92&lang=en'

Replace your_token and your_api_host with your JWT Authentication and API Host

Try it

Response#

{
  "code": "200",
  "updateTime": "2023-04-12T18:27+08:00",
  "fxLink": "https://www.qweather.com/en/weather/beijing-101010100.html",
  "now": {
    "obsTime": "2023-04-12T18:22+08:00",
    "temp": "26",
    "feelsLike": "28",
    "icon": "501",
    "text": "Fog",
    "wind360": "180",
    "windDir": "S",
    "windScale": "1",
    "windSpeed": "5",
    "humidity": "74",
    "precip": "0.0",
    "pressure": "1004",
    "vis": "4",
    "cloud": "91",
    "dew": "23"
  },
  "refer": {
    "sources": [
      "https://developer.qweather.com/attribution.html"
    ],
    "license": [
      "QWeather Developers License"
    ]
  }
}
  • code string Status code
  • updateTime date-time API latest update time
  • fxLink uri Responsive web page of this data, for embedded in website or APP
  • now object Current weather data
    • obsTime date-time Observation time
    • temp string Temperature, default unit: Celsius
    • icon string Icon code for weather conditions. See also QWeather Icons
    • text string Weather condition description
    • wind360 string Wind direction in azimuth degree
    • windDir string Wind direction
    • windScale string Wind scale
    • windSpeed string Wind speed, km/h
    • humidity string Relative humidity in percent
    • precip string Precipitation, default unit: millimeters
    • pressure string Station pressure, default unit: hPa
    • cloud string Cloud cover in percent
    • dew string Dew point temperature
    • feelsLike string Feels like temperature
    • vis string Visibility, KM
  • refer object Data sources and licensing information
    • sources array Data source and other statements, may be null
    • license array Data license, may be null