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An Open Meteo SDK for R
openmeteo
provides functions for accessing the Open-Meteo weather API, enabling the
desired weather data or forecasts to be retrieved in a tidy data format.
An API key is not required to access the Open-Meteo API.
Install and load with:
install.packages("openmeteo") library(openmeteo)
Getting current weather for a location is as easy as:
weather_now('tokyo')
Explore the documentation with ?openmeteo
Open-Meteo provides several API endpoints through the following functions:
Core Weather APIs - weather_forecast()
- retrieve weather forecasts for a location -
weather_history()
- retrieve historical weather
observations for a location - weather_now()
- simple
function to return current weather for a location -
weather_variables()
- retrieve a shortlist of valid
forecast or historical weather variables provided
Other APIs - geocode()
- return the
co-ordinates and other data for a location name -
climate_forecast()
- return long-range climate modelling
for a location - river_discharge()
- return flow volumes
for the nearest river - marine_forecast()
- return ocean
conditions data for a location - air_quality()
- return air
quality data for a location
Please review the API documentation at Open-Meteo.com for details regarding the data available, its types, units, and other caveats and considerations.
Please feel free to raise any issues / pull requests if your use case is not supported.
These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.