# Met Office

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/met-office/  
**Website:** https://metoffice.gov.uk  
**APIs profiled:** 12

The Met Office is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service, providing weather forecasts for the UK and "world leading weather services for the public" (metoffice.gov.uk). For developers it publishes Weather DataHub (datahub.metoffice.gov.uk), a subscription data service with API documentation for site-specific forecasts, atmospheric model data, map images, land observations and National Severe Weather Warning Service warnings, along with the older DataPoint service, RSS feeds and open-source code on GitHub.

## Kin Score — 62.9 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-10-31 under rubric 0.25.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 73.2 |
| Contract Quality | 62.6 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.1 |
| Access Clarity | 76.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 40.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 29.8 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | no |
| Operation Distinctiveness | no |

## APIs (10)

- **Met Office Capabilities API** — Essential characteristics of the information available from the API.
- **Met Office Collection Metadata API** — Description of the information available from the collections.
- **Met Office Instance Data API** — Available instance data queries.
- **Met Office Instance Metadata API** — Description of the information available from instances.
- **Met Office Met Office Land Observations Public API** — The Met Office Land Observations Public API API from Met Office — 1 operation(s) for met office land observations public api.
- **Met Office Nearest API** — The Nearest API from Met Office — 1 operation(s) for nearest.
- **Met Office Objects API** — The Objects API from Met Office — 3 operation(s) for objects.
- **Met Office Orders API** — The Orders API from Met Office — 4 operation(s) for orders.
- **Met Office Point API** — The Point API from Met Office — 3 operation(s) for point.
- **Met Office Runs API** — The Runs API from Met Office — 2 operation(s) for runs.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Met Office Agentic Access** — 28 operations

## Security (3)

- **Met Office Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Met Office Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Met Office Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Met Office Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Weather, Climate, Forecast, Meteorology, Government, Open Data, United Kingdom

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/met-office/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.