Deutscher Wetterdienst

Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) is Germany's national meteorological service, a federal agency under the Ministry for Digital and Transport, responsible for weather and climate services, warnings, and the national climate archive. Its geospatial surface is an OGC-standard GeoServer at maps.dwd.de serving forecast, radar, warning and climate layers to any WMS or WFS client without a key.

Deutscher Wetterdienst publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Geospatial, OGC, WMS, WFS, and Open Access.

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

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Geospatial OGC WMS WFS Open Access GIS

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Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Deutscher Wetterdienst OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)

OGC-standard web services served from a GeoServer instance. Verified anonymously on 2026-08-20: a WMS 1.3.0 GetCapabilities document declaring 193 layers and a WFS 2.0.0 GetCapa...

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: deutscher-wetterdienst
name: Deutscher Wetterdienst
type: Index
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-20'
modified: '2026-08-20'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/deutscher-wetterdienst/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
description: Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) is Germany's national meteorological service, a federal agency under the Ministry
  for Digital and Transport, responsible for weather and climate services, warnings, and the national climate archive. Its
  geospatial surface is an OGC-standard GeoServer at maps.dwd.de serving forecast, radar, warning and climate layers to any
  WMS or WFS client without a key.
x-ogc-member:
  level: Catalyst
  member_type: Government
  country: Germany
  source: https://portal.ogc.org/services/srv_active_members_csv_new.php
tags:
- Geospatial
- OGC
- WMS
- WFS
- Open Access
- GIS
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://maps.dwd.de/
apis:
- aid: deutscher-wetterdienst:ogc-web-services
  name: Deutscher Wetterdienst OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)
  description: 'OGC-standard web services served from a GeoServer instance. Verified anonymously on 2026-08-20: a WMS 1.3.0
    GetCapabilities document declaring 193 layers and a WFS 2.0.0 GetCapabilities document declaring 61 feature types returned
    HTTP 200 and is saved here verbatim. These GetCapabilities documents are the machine-readable contract for this surface
    — there is no OpenAPI for the classic OGC services.'
  humanURL: https://maps.dwd.de/
  baseURL: https://maps.dwd.de/geoserver/ows
  tags:
  - Geospatial
  - OGC
  - WMS
  - WFS
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: GetCapabilities
    url: openapi/deutscher-wetterdienst-wms-capabilities.xml
  - type: WMS
    url: https://maps.dwd.de/geoserver/ows?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.3.0
  - type: GetCapabilities
    url: openapi/deutscher-wetterdienst-wfs-capabilities.xml
  - type: WFS
    url: https://maps.dwd.de/geoserver/ows?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&version=2.0.0