World Meteorological Organization

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates global meteorological, climatological, hydrological, and related geophysical sciences. WMO provides public REST APIs for weather data, climate observation metadata, hydrological monitoring, severe weather alerts, and the WIS2 global meteorological information exchange system enabling real-time access to earth system data from member nations worldwide.

World Meteorological Organization publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including jobs API, pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-ets API, pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-kpi API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Weather, Climate, Hydrology, Meteorology, and International Organization.

The World Meteorological Organization catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

World Meteorological Organization’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, and 10 more developer resources.

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38.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Weather Climate Hydrology MeteorologyInternational OrganizationUnited Nations Open Data

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Contract Quality 10.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.0 / 15

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Operational Transparency 0.3 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.1 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.2 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

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Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

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Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 9

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

World Weather Information Service API

The WMO World Weather Information Service (WWIS) provides public JSON endpoints delivering official city weather forecasts and climatological data contributed by WMO member nati...

OSCAR/Surface REST API

The OSCAR/Surface REST API provides programmatic access to the WMO Observing Systems Capability Analysis and Review tool for surface-based stations. The public GET endpoints ena...

WIS2 Global Broker (MQTT)

The WIS2 Global Broker provides an MQTT(S) publish-subscribe service that re-publishes real-time weather notification messages from all WIS2 Nodes worldwide. Subscribers connect...

WHOS Hydrological Observing System API

The WMO Hydrological Observing System (WHOS) provides multiple API interfaces for accessing global hydrological station data and time series. Available services include a REST/J...

World Meteorological Organization jobs API

The jobs API from World Meteorological Organization — 3 operation(s) for jobs.

World Meteorological Organization pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-ets API

The pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-ets API from World Meteorological Organization — 2 operation(s) for pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-ets.

World Meteorological Organization pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-kpi API

The pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-kpi API from World Meteorological Organization — 2 operation(s) for pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-kpi.

World Meteorological Organization server API

Meteorological Service of Canada Global Discovery Catalogue (GDC)

World Meteorological Organization wis2-discovery-metadata API

WIS2 discovery metadata

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Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Meteorological Service of Canada Global Discovery Catalogue (GDC) jobs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Meteorological Service of Canada Global Discovery Catalogue (GDC) jobs pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-ets API

OPEN COLLECTION

Meteorological Service of Canada Global Discovery Catalogue (GDC) jobs pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-kpi API

OPEN COLLECTION

Meteorological Service of Canada Global Discovery Catalogue (GDC) jobs server API

OPEN COLLECTION

Meteorological Service of Canada Global Discovery Catalogue (GDC) jobs wis2-discovery-metadata API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Apis Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Wmo Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Wmo Agentic Access

21 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Community

Community

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Twitter

Twitter

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

SevereWeatherAlerts

SevereWeatherAlerts

Source (apis.yml)

aid: wmo
name: World Meteorological Organization
description: The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates global
  meteorological, climatological, hydrological, and related geophysical sciences. WMO provides public REST APIs for weather
  data, climate observation metadata, hydrological monitoring, severe weather alerts, and the WIS2 global meteorological information
  exchange system enabling real-time access to earth system data from member nations worldwide.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/wmo.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wmo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Weather
- Climate
- Hydrology
- Meteorology
- International Organization
- United Nations
- Open Data
apis:
- aid: wmo:world-weather-information-service-api
  name: World Weather Information Service API
  tags:
  - Weather
  - Forecast
  - Climate
  tags_raw:
  - Weather
  - Forecasts
  - Climate
  humanURL: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/dataguide.html
  baseURL: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/json/
  properties:
  - url: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/dataguide.html
    type: Documentation
  description: The WMO World Weather Information Service (WWIS) provides public JSON endpoints delivering official city weather
    forecasts and climatological data contributed by WMO member national meteorological and hydrological services. Data is
    freely accessible by city identifier with no authentication required. City forecasts include temperature, wind, humidity,
    and precipitation; climatological normals cover monthly averages. A full city list with identifiers is available for programmatic
    enumeration of supported locations.
- aid: wmo:oscar-surface-api
  name: OSCAR/Surface REST API
  tags:
  - Observations
  - Weather Stations
  - WIGOS
  - Metadata
  humanURL: https://oscar.wmo.int/surface/
  baseURL: https://oscar.wmo.int/surface/rest/api
  properties:
  - url: https://oscar.wmo.int/surface/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://oscar.wmo.int/surface/rest/api?_wadl
    type: WADL
  description: The OSCAR/Surface REST API provides programmatic access to the WMO Observing Systems Capability Analysis and
    Review tool for surface-based stations. The public GET endpoints enable search and retrieval of station metadata records
    in JSON format covering WIGOS station identifiers, station locations, observation variables, and operational status. The
    search station endpoint supports pagination with up to 50,000 station records per query. Authentication tokens are required
    for write (POST/XML upload) operations but not for read access.
- aid: wmo:wis2-global-broker-mqtt-api
  name: WIS2 Global Broker (MQTT)
  tags:
  - WIS2
  - Real-Time
  - MQTT
  - Pub-Sub
  - Notification
  tags_raw:
  - WIS2
  - Real-time
  - MQTT
  - Pub/Sub
  - Notifications
  humanURL: https://community.wmo.int/site/knowledge-hub/programmes-and-initiatives/wmo-information-system-wis/wis2-overview
  baseURL: mqtts://globalbroker.meteo.fr:8883
  properties:
  - url: https://community.wmo.int/site/knowledge-hub/programmes-and-initiatives/wmo-information-system-wis/wis2-overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://wmo-im.github.io/wis2-cookbook/cookbook/wis2-cookbook-DRAFT.html
    type: GettingStarted
  description: 'The WIS2 Global Broker provides an MQTT(S) publish-subscribe service that re-publishes real-time weather notification
    messages from all WIS2 Nodes worldwide. Subscribers connect using MQTTS on port 8883 with public read-only credentials
    (username: everyone, password: everyone). Notification messages include data download links for core weather observations,
    forecasts, climate data, and alerts exchanged between WMO member nations under the WIS2 topic hierarchy.'
- aid: wmo:whos-hydrological-api
  name: WHOS Hydrological Observing System API
  tags:
  - Hydrology
  - Water
  - Observations
  - Time Series
  humanURL: https://community.wmo.int/whos-web-services-and-supported-tools
  baseURL: https://whos.geodab.eu/gs-service/services/essi
  properties:
  - url: https://community.wmo.int/whos-web-services-and-supported-tools
    type: Documentation
  description: The WMO Hydrological Observing System (WHOS) provides multiple API interfaces for accessing global hydrological
    station data and time series. Available services include a REST/JSON DAB Observation and Measurement API, an OGC Sensor
    Observation Service (SOS), CUAHSI WaterML endpoints for compatibility with HydroDesktop and R WaterML libraries, and an
    ESRI Feature Server. All endpoints require a personal access token obtained via free registration at the WHOS registration
    portal. Supported views include whos-arctic, whos-plata, and the global whos view.
- aid: wmo:wmo-jobs-api
  name: World Meteorological Organization jobs API
  description: The jobs API from World Meteorological Organization — 3 operation(s) for jobs.
  humanURL: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/dataguide.html
  baseURL: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/json/
  tags:
  - Job
  tags_raw:
  - jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/wmo-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wis2-gdc.weather.gc.ca/collections/wis2-discovery-metadata/items
- aid: wmo:wmo-pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-ets-api
  name: World Meteorological Organization pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-ets API
  description: The pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-ets API from World Meteorological Organization — 2 operation(s) for pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-ets.
  humanURL: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/dataguide.html
  baseURL: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/json/
  tags:
  - pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-ets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/wmo-pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-ets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wis2-gdc.weather.gc.ca/collections/wis2-discovery-metadata/items
- aid: wmo:wmo-pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-kpi-api
  name: World Meteorological Organization pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-kpi API
  description: The pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-kpi API from World Meteorological Organization — 2 operation(s) for pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-kpi.
  humanURL: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/dataguide.html
  baseURL: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/json/
  tags:
  - pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-kpi
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/wmo-pywcmp-wis2-wcmp2-kpi-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wis2-gdc.weather.gc.ca/collections/wis2-discovery-metadata/items
- aid: wmo:wmo-server-api
  name: World Meteorological Organization server API
  description: Meteorological Service of Canada Global Discovery Catalogue (GDC)
  humanURL: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/dataguide.html
  baseURL: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/json/
  tags:
  - Server
  tags_raw:
  - server
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/wmo-server-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wis2-gdc.weather.gc.ca/collections/wis2-discovery-metadata/items
- aid: wmo:wmo-wis2-discovery-metadata-api
  name: World Meteorological Organization wis2-discovery-metadata API
  description: WIS2 discovery metadata
  humanURL: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/dataguide.html
  baseURL: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/json/
  tags:
  - wis2-discovery-metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/wmo-wis2-discovery-metadata-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wis2-gdc.weather.gc.ca/collections/wis2-discovery-metadata/items
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/wmo-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/wmo-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://wmo.int/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/World-Meteorological-Organization
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/wmo-im
- type: Community
  url: https://community.wmo.int/
- type: Portal
  url: https://wmo.int/activities/type-of-activity/exchange-data
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.wis2box.wis.wmo.int/en/latest/
- type: SevereWeatherAlerts
  url: https://severeweather.wmo.int/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/WMO
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-meteorological-organization-wmo/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/dataguide.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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