Automatic Weather Stations

Automatic Weather Stations — The Automatic Weather Stations API provides acces

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Automatic Weather Stations exposes the Automatic Weather Stations API provides access to data from around 160 automatic measurement stations within the SwissMetNet network. It delivers vital meteorological data including temperature, precipitation, wind speed, and humidity every 10 minutes to support weather forecasting and environmental monitoring. We verified a keyless GET endpoint returning JSON (Weather). Check the provider docs for rate limits and terms before production use.

HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
GET https://data.geo.admin.ch/api/stac/v1/collections/ch.meteoschweiz.ogd-smn

{
  "stac_version": "1.0.0",
  "id": "ch.meteoschweiz.ogd-smn",
  "title": "Automatic weather stations - Measurement values",
  "description": "SwissMetNet, the automatic monitoring network of MeteoSwiss, comprises 158 automatic monitoring stations. The data set contains current measurements for each station on temperature, precipitation, wind, pressure, snow, humidity, sunshine duration, and radiation in 10 minutes ('t'), hourly ('h'), daily ('d'), monthly ('m') and yearly ('y') resolutions. There are updated data sets since midnight ('now'), from the current year up to yesterday ('recent') and since the beginning of the measurement in ten-year increments ('historical'). If you need hourly, daily, monthly or yearly values, we strongly recommend that you download the corresponding resolution.",
  "summaries": {},
  "extent": {
    "spatial": {
      "bbox": [
        [
          6.099453,
          45.843444
        ]
      ]
    },
    "temporal": {
      "interval": [
        [
          "2026-07-05T04:00:34.744312Z",
          "2026-07-05T04:00:34.867576Z"
        ]
      ]
    }
  },
  "providers": [
    {
      "name": "Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss",
      "roles": [
        "producer",
        "licensor"
      ],
      "url": "https://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch"
    }
  ],
  "license": "CC-BY"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://data.geo.admin.ch/api/stac/v1/collections/ch.meteoschweiz.ogd-smn"
const res = await fetch("https://data.geo.admin.ch/api/stac/v1/collections/ch.meteoschweiz.ogd-smn");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://data.geo.admin.ch/api/stac/v1/collections/ch.meteoschweiz.ogd-smn")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 5On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /api/stac/v1/collections/ch.meteoschweiz.ogd-smn awaits first probe
GET/api/stac/v1/collections/ch.meteoschweiz.ogd-smnPROBED

Automatic Weather Stations — The Automatic Weather Stations API provides acces

GET/api

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/1

Api details by ID (example: 1).

GET/api?limit=10

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

Automatic Weather Stations: common questions

Is Automatic Weather Stations free to use?

Yes — Automatic Weather Stations is a free weather API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Automatic Weather Stations need an API key?

No — Automatic Weather Stations needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Automatic Weather Stations from the browser?

Yes — Automatic Weather Stations returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Automatic Weather Stations up right now?

Automatic Weather Stations is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.