Weather APIs
Detailed weather data at your fingertips.
The Azure Maps Weather APIs provide you real-time, current, and historical weather data for any latitude/longitude to power your applications.
Comprehensive weather inputs.
Level up your solutions with detailed weather information that includes everything from temperature to wind speed, precipitation, UV index, air quality, and more.
Real-time Updates
Get current weather conditions, such as precipitation, wind speed, and temperature, for any given location.
Forecasts
Use the Weather APIs to query minute-by-minute, hourly, and daily forecasts for specific weather indices.
Weather Alerts
Receive alerts for severe weather phenomena, such as tropical storms, high winds, and flooding for any location.
Custom Visualization
Benefit from a range of custom visualization options, including overlays and graphics to create informative maps.
Forecasts and updates
The Weather service is a collection of toolsets that you can use to query current or real-time weather updates, as well as daily, hourly, and minute-by-minute forecasts for any set of coordinates.
Weather prediction and modeling
You can obtain a broad range of data using the Weather APIs, including historical, normal, and actual measurements that you can use to inform prediction and modeling in your applications.
Severe weather alerts
The Severe Weather Alerts API informs you of impending conditions, such as high winds, tropical storms, floods, and more that may disrupt business operations or logistics during the day.
Routing
You can query hyper-local, up-to-the-minute weather nowcasts, assessments, and notifications for waypoints along a route to help with navigation and routing applications.
Custom map overlays
Visualize the API weather data on your maps using custom overlays and graphics from Azure Maps to denote different weather indices and patterns.
Fully-interactive code samples
Get a sense of how map visualizations can be deployed with a collection of 282 full-interactive, open source code samples that you can easily integrate other map controls and GeoJSON files into.
Azure Maps Weather Service
Our Weather service helps you glean valuable weather-related insights to help you optimize business operations and improve decision making with predictive analysis.
Azure Maps Weather APIs
More data and insight functionality
Timezone
The Timezone service allows you to query the time zone, including past, current and future time zones for any set of coordinates.
Traffic
See data on traffic flow and incidents for a particular area or route as a map overlay by using the Traffic Data API.
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Our platform provides you with everything you need — from subscription keys for API authentication to a plethora of code samples, demos and SDKs.
Documentation
Complete with code samples, SDK support, and detailed explanations, this is a one-stop resource for enhancing your projects with the wide range of Azure Maps APIs.
Samples
These pre-written snippets show how to perform various API calls for current weather, forecasts, and severe weather alerts, among other functionalities.
Frequently asked questions
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Azure Maps APIs rely on a comprehensive database of geospatial data and weather feeds, the latter of which is updated in real time to provide you the most accurate, up-to-date results for your application.
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Yes! Our Weather APIs can provide historical records, normals, and actuals that you can use to compare with current measures, demonstrate differentials, and develop modeling and predictions in your applications.
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No. You can make as many queries as you like using the weather APIs. The first 1,000 transactions are free, following which you pay for the volume of queries you use.
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The first 5,000 transactions are free for the Azure Maps Timezone service, following which, you pay only for the volume of transactions you use. Check out our pricing tiers for more
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Creating an Azure Maps account is completely free. You can use your account to access free amounts of services, including weather, to get you started. Following this, you pay only for the amount of transactions you use. Browse our pricing tiers for information.
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Azure Maps offers you unrivaled geospatial mapping and a highly reliable service on a flexible, pay-as-you-go model. Enjoy versatile toolsets and 24/7 customer support with Azure Maps.
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