Use Case

Weather & Environmental Data

Forecasts, observations, and climate signals.

9 providers 45 APIs 8 declared variants

Consuming weather and environmental feeds — current conditions and forecasts, severe-weather alerts, air quality, and climate and agricultural monitoring data.

9 API providers on the APIs.io network offer weather & environmental data. The highest-rated are Tomorrow.io, OpenWeatherMap, EPA — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Amazon Ground Station, OpenUV.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Tomorrow.ioTomorrow.io is a Boston-based weather intelligence platform combining a global proprietary numerical weathe...2 APIs66.9
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
OpenWeatherMapOpenWeather (operating openweathermap.org) is a global weather data platform delivering current weather, mu...12 APIs63.5EPA — U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyWeb services, data products, and open data spanning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Programmatic ...22 APIs60.8Amazon Ground StationAWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process satel...1 API58.1
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
OpenUVOpenUV provides a global real-time UV index API. The service combines meteorological inputs (ozone, cloud c...1 API48.8Air Quality Programmatic APIsAir Quality Programmatic APIs provide real-time and forecast air quality data from 11,000+ monitoring stati...1 API41.4Weather.govWeather.gov is the official website of the National Weather Service (NWS), operated by NOAA within the US D...1 API39.5
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
ArlulaArlula is a satellite imagery marketplace and API platform providing programmatic access to archive and tas...4 APIs32.8
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
APILayerAPILayer is an API marketplace and hub that enables developers to discover, integrate, and build with high-...1 API21.4

What Providers Actually Declared

This use case is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

Agricultural MonitoringAir Quality ForecastingAir Quality Mobile AppsOutdoor Activity PlanningSevere Weather AlertingSmart City and Air QualityWeather DataWeather Forecasting

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