Language
QWeather supports 30+ languages and the official language of the country or region where it is located.
Default language
Multi-language is optional, the default value is the official language of the country or region, if there is no official language or there are multiple official languages, we will choose the most popular or widely used language, for example:
- New York: English
- Montreal: English
- Bengaluru: Hindi
Fallback order
If some data does not respond to your language setting, it will fall back to the next supported language in the following order:
Multi-language is not set, the default language will be used, the order is:
Official language > English
A specified language is set, the order is:
Specified language > Official language > English
Exception
Most of the data supports multi-language and official languages, the following table lists which data cannot fully support multi-language.
| Data | Supported Languages | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Weather Indices | Chinese, English | |
| Weather Warning | Partial | See Warning Info - Supported language |
| Minutely Forecast | Chinese, English |
Language code
You can specify the language of the data using the query parameter lang, here is the multi-language code in the API or SDK.
| Language name | API code | iOS SDK | Android SDK |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplified Chinese | zh-hans, zh | LANGUAGE_TYPE_ZH | ZH_HANS |
| Traditional Chinese | zh-hant | LANGUAGE_TYPE_ZHHANT | ZH_HANT |
| English | en | LANGUAGE_TYPE_EN | ENGLISH |
| German | de | LANGUAGE_TYPE_DE | GERMAN |
| Spanish | es | LANGUAGE_TYPE_ES | SPANISH |
| French | fr | LANGUAGE_TYPE_FR | FRENCH |
| Italian | it | LANGUAGE_TYPE_IT | ITALIAN |
| Japanese | ja | LANGUAGE_TYPE_JP | JAPANESE |
| Korean | ko | LANGUAGE_TYPE_KR | KOREAN |
| Russian | ru | LANGUAGE_TYPE_RU | RUSSIAN |
| Hindi | hi | LANGUAGE_TYPE_IN | HINDI |
| Thai | th | LANGUAGE_TYPE_TH | THAI |
| Arabic | ar | LANGUAGE_TYPE_AR | AR |
| Portuguese | pt | LANGUAGE_TYPE_PT | PT |
| Bengali | bn | LANGUAGE_TYPE_BN | BN |
| Malay | ms | LANGUAGE_TYPE_MS | MS |
| Dutch | nl | LANGUAGE_TYPE_NL | NL |
| Greek | el | LANGUAGE_TYPE_EL | EL |
| Latin | la | LANGUAGE_TYPE_LA | LA |
| Swedish | sv | LANGUAGE_TYPE_SV | SV |
| Indonesian | id | LANGUAGE_TYPE_ID | ID |
| Polish | pl | LANGUAGE_TYPE_PL | PL |
| Turkish | tr | LANGUAGE_TYPE_TR | TR |
| Czech | cs | LANGUAGE_TYPE_CS | CS |
| Estonian | et | LANGUAGE_TYPE_ET | ET |
| Vietnamese | vi | LANGUAGE_TYPE_VI | VI |
| Filipino | fil | LANGUAGE_TYPE_FIL | FIL |
| Finnish | fi | LANGUAGE_TYPE_FI | FI |
| Hebrew | he | LANGUAGE_TYPE_HE | HE |
| Icelandic | is | LANGUAGE_TYPE_IS | IS |
| Norwegian | nb | LANGUAGE_TYPE_NB | NB |