SRF Weather
SRF Weather
Our offers
We offer five packages, to suit your business needs. If none of the standard packages comply with your business needs, custom packages may be created. Please get in contact with us for further details: meteo.api@srgssr.ch
| Package | freemium | micro | small | medium | large | enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Location reference points (max) | 1 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 40 | unlimited |
Quota
| 50 requests / 1 day | 500 requests / 1 day | 1000 requests / 1 day | 3000 requests / 1 day | 5'000 requests / 1 day | 20'000 requests / 1 day |
| Price (CHF) | Free | 45 / month | 70 / month | 210 / month | 380 / month | upon request |
Pricing information net excluding VAT. All data, products, and prices are subject to change.
What is it?
The SRF Weather REST API allows you to get weather forecasts.
And you find also, an example about how the API could be used to build weather widgets in WordPress
After providing either of name, zip code or decimal latitude and longitude parameters of the chosen location, the API sends a response that contains a JSON object based on the request with the weather forecast of the location for the chosen time period (hourly, daily).
The new Meteo V2 supports:
- Perceived temperature (1h, 3h)
- Fresh snow (1h, 3h)
- Sunshine duration (1h, 3h, day)
- UV index (1h, 3h, day)
- Relative humidity (1h, 3h)
- Mean Sealevel Pressure (1h, 3h)
- Dewpoint (1h, 3h)
- Irradiance (1h, 3h)
- Download weather icons
- SRF Weather API User Guide and Weather Icon Description
- Meteo API Symbolbeschreibung.pdf
- Weather widgets in WordPress
See full documentation Get started
Why use it?
Do you want to get a weather forecast feature on your site or in your app? Do you want to provide a possibility to check if the weather is suitable for planned activities? SRF Weather API can help!
- Easy integration
- Wide coverage in Switzerland
- Weather forecast by the location of choice
- Hourly or daily forecast
How it works?
This API consists of a bunch of GET methods that you can request for weather data of a particular location of Switzerland applied for a given time frame. After successful authorization, the API sends back the requested data as a JSON object.
Important: the geolocationId is an identifier that must first be obtained via the name / the postal code or the radius search (since we do not offer a forecast for all points in CH). We do not have every point in CH in our forecast data. So it is not enough to simply round any geo-coordinates. To find geolocationIds you can:
- use the radius search for a point (/geolocations?latitude=47.3797111&longitude=8.5342111)
- search by zip code or name
We provide sample data record for the "Weekly" and "Hourly" for better understanding what data is included.
Confidence: only for precipitation we have the probabilities
Updates: basically all data are updated every 6 hours. There are no fixed times as the calculations take different times from run to run. And data in the short term (next hours) data can be updated every few minutes.
Day-Icons and Hourly-icons are calculated separately, so no formula for Day-icon from Hour-icons.
Sample Response forecast by day in JSON Data-Format
Read the reference documentation
How to use?
If you’d like to use SRF Weather API, follow these three steps to get started.
For standard access and most use-cases you can use the product SRG SSR PUBLIC API V2.
Next steps
No next development steps are planned. Do you have inputs? Get in touch via meteo.api@srgssr.ch
Requirements
To access the SRF Weather API, you need to be a registered user with a valid API key.
Get API key View reference documentation
update: 14.6.23
The symbol_24_code will be used in the future. It represents an expanded set of weather information.
update:01.02.23
How to obtain geolocationId ?
Start with geolocatonNames ;-)
