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Meteorologisk Institutt

Norwegian Met Institute global forecasts, free with attribution

🌦 WeatherHEALTHYchecked 11h ago
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The Norwegian Meteorological Institute's api.met.no provides global point forecasts, including the compact locationforecast used here. Pass latitude and longitude and it returns hourly temperature, wind, and precipitation as JSON. It requires an identifying User-Agent and is licensed under CC BY 4.0 / NLOD.

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Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
621P50 · ms
1857P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 133 ms, slowest 1636 ms, most recent 133 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compact?lat=59.91&lon=10.75

{
  "type": "Feature",
  "geometry": {
    "type": "Point",
    "coordinates": [
      10.75,
      59.91,
      3
    ]
  },
  "properties": {
    "meta": {
      "updated_at": "2026-07-05T09:28:46Z"
    },
    "timeseries": [
      {
        "time": "2026-07-05T10:00:00Z",
        "data": {
          "instant": {
            "details": {
              "air_temperature": 19.2,
              "wind_speed": 4.2
            }
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compact?lat=59.91&lon=10.75"
const res = await fetch("https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compact?lat=59.91&lon=10.75");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compact?lat=59.91&lon=10.75")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /locationforecast/2.0/compact?lat=59.91&lon=10.75621 mschecked 11h ago
GET/locationforecast/2.0/compact?lat=59.91&lon=10.75PROBED

Norwegian Met Institute global forecasts, free with attribution

GET/locationforecast

Locationforecast — documented GET route.

GET/locationforecast/1

Locationforecast details by ID (example: 1).

GET/locationforecast?limit=10

Locationforecast — documented GET route.

GET/locationforecast/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/locationforecast/2.0/compact?limit=5

Compact — documented GET route.

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

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Meteorologisk Institutt: common questions

Is Meteorologisk Institutt free to use?

Yes — Meteorologisk Institutt is a free weather API. Free tier: Free, no key; requires identifying User-Agent. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does Meteorologisk Institutt need an API key?

No — Meteorologisk Institutt needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Throttled; identify via User-Agent and respect caching headers (per docs)).

Can I call Meteorologisk Institutt from the browser?

Yes — Meteorologisk Institutt 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 Meteorologisk Institutt up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Meteorologisk Institutt is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 621 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.