Service and Data

QWeather Develop Service is based on advanced meteorological and artificial intelligence algorithms, provides a wide range and accurate weather data services for developers to help you display the weather in your applications or to help your business decisions. All of this can be easily integrated with our development tools.

Service

QWeather Develop Service provides the following development services:

  • API
  • iOS SDK
  • Android SDK
  • Bulk download (currently in beta, official to be released in Q1 2023)
  • Weather map development kit (currently in beta, to be released in Q1 2023)

You can use the above services to get all kinds of weather data services easily and quickly around the world.

Data

We support weather data services in China (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) and 200+ countries or regions around the world, with a total number of over 200,000 cities.

Weather

Data Update interval Time step Time range Geographic
Real-time weather 15 min Real-time Real Time Global
Daily forecast 8 hrs Daily 1-30 days Global
Hourly forecast 1 hr Hourly 1-168 hrs Global
Real-time POI Weather 1 hr Real-time Real-time Global
POI Daily forecast 8 hrs Daily 1-7 days Global
Real-time Weather (Grid) 20 min Real-time Realtime Global
Daily forecast (Grid) 12 hrs Daily 1-7 days Global
Hourly forecast (Grid) 1 hr Hourly 1-72 hrs Global
Minute Precip (Grid) 5 min 5 min 1-2 hrs China

Weather Indices

Data Update interval Time step Time range Geographic
Car Wash 1 hr Daily 1-3 days Global
Clothing 1 hr Daily 1-3 days Global
Exercise 1 hr Daily 1-3 days Global
UV 1 hr Daily 1-3 days Global
Fishing 1 hr Daily 1-3 days Global
Comfort 1 hr Daily 1-3 days China
Cold & Flu 1 hr Daily 1-3 days China
Travel 1 hr Daily 1-3 days China
Air Pollution 1 hr Daily 1-3 days China
Air Conditioning 1 hr Daily 1-3 days China
Allergy 1 hr Daily 1-3 days China
Sunglasses 1 hr Daily 1-3 days China
Makeup 1 hr Daily 1-3 days China
Sunshine 1 hr Daily 1-3 days China
Traffic 1 hr Daily 1-3 days China
Sun Protection 1 hr Daily 1-3 days China

Air Quality

Data Update interval Time step Time range Geographic
Real-time Air Quality 1 hr Real Time Real Time China
Air Quality daily forecast 1 hr Daily 1-5 days China

Warning

Data Update interval Time step Time range Geographic
Warning 5 min Real-time Real-time China and EU countries
Warning city list 5 min Real-time Real-time China and EU countries

Astronomy

Data Update interval Time step Time range Geographic
Sunrise and sunset times 24 hrs Daily 1-60 days Global
Moonrise and moonset times 24 hrs Daily 1-60 days Global
Moon phases 24 hrs Daily and hourly 1-60 days Global

Ocean

Data Update interval Time step Time range Geographic
Tides 24 hrs Daily 1-3 days Global
Currents 24 hrs Daily 1-3 days Global

Tropical Cyclones

Data Update interval Time step Time range Geographic
Storm List 1 hr Daily weather 365 days Global
Storm Forecast 1 hr Hour-by-Hour 1-72 hrs Global
Storm Location and Track 1 hr Hour-by-Hour Typhoon Life Cycle Global