Weather information

Weather information: countries where there are weather forecasts available. Pixels with a value higher than the specified threshold (50%) were given a value of -1 (YES response)

Official weather observations, weather forecasts and climatological information for selected cities supplied by National Meteorological & Hydrological Services (NMHSs) worldwide. The NMHSs make official weather observations in their respective countries. Links to their official weather service websites and tourism board/organization are also provided whenever available. Weather icons are shown alongside worded forecasts in this version to facilitate visual inspection. By June 2021, WWIS provided official weather information for 2963 cities in which 2819 cities are available with forecast from 139 members while 2177 cities are available with climatological information from 170 members.

Data revision: 2021-07-01

Contact points:

Contact: WMO

Metadata contact: OCB Environment FAO-UN

Resource constraints:

License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Notes to users of the forecast data and climatological information of the WWIS website:

  1. Acknowledgement must be given to the WMO World Weather Information Service (https://worldweather.wmo.int) as the source of information.

  2. The forecast and climatological information of the WWIS website must be reproduced accurately.

  3. Disclaimer: https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/disclaimer.html

Online resources:

Download data from World Weather Information Service Official Forecasts

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Last Updated April 21, 2022, 11:11 (UTC)
Created February 14, 2022, 10:34 (UTC)