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