OpenWeatherMap
Introduction


**OpenWeatherMap** is an online service, owned by OpenWeather Ltd, that provides global [weather](/wiki/Weather "Weather") data via [API](/wiki/API "API"), including current weather data, [forecasts](/wiki/Weather_forecasting "Weather forecasting"), [nowcasts](/wiki/Nowcasting_%28meteorology%29 "Nowcasting (meteorology)"), and historical weather data. The company provides a minute\-by\-minute [hyperlocal](/wiki/Hyperlocal "Hyperlocal") [precipitation](/wiki/Precipitation "Precipitation") forecast. The [convolutional](/wiki/Convolution "Convolution") [machine learning](/wiki/Machine_learning "Machine learning") model uses meteorological broadcast services and data from [airport](/wiki/Airport "Airport") [weather stations](/wiki/Weather_station "Weather station"), [on\-ground radar stations](/wiki/Weather_radar "Weather radar"), [weather satellites](/wiki/Weather_satellite "Weather satellite"), [remote sensing](/wiki/Remote_sensing "Remote sensing") satellites, [METAR](/wiki/METAR "METAR"), and [automated weather stations](/wiki/Automatic_weather_station "Automatic weather station").

The company has more than 2 million customers, ranging from independent developers to [Fortune 500](/wiki/Fortune_500 "Fortune 500") companies.

The [APIs](/wiki/API "API") provided by OpenWeatherMap have resulted in repositories on [GitHub](/wiki/GitHub "GitHub"). The APIs support [multiple languages](/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization "Internationalization and localization"), [units of measurement](/wiki/Unit_of_measurement "Unit of measurement"), and industry [standard](/wiki/Technical_standard "Technical standard") data formats like [JSON](/wiki/JSON "JSON") and [XML](/wiki/XML "XML").


Can I use OpenWeatherMap to get weather forecasts for specific locations?