Global Precipitation Map Forecast

Get current, forecast and historical global precipitation weather maps with a 10 minutes-step via the easy-to-work API.

Features of Global Precipitation Map

This product includes two types of forecasts:
- Forecast for the next 6 hours for the US territory
- Forecast for the next 2 hours for other global areas
Historical weather map for the previous 2 days
Update period: every 10 minutes
Resolution: less than 1 km
Global coverage
Weather sources:

Global Precipitatoin Map is based on global weather models, satellites, radars and our OWM NWP-ML technology.
There is the OpenWeather Interactive Weather Maps with Global Precipitation layer, which provide users with free access to visual data.

Use the following URL format and parameters to get weather maps. Please pay attention to the URL example.

API call


                  https://maps.openweathermap.org/maps/2.0/radar/forecast/{z}/{x}/{y}?appid={API key}&tm={date}

Parameters
`{z}`	required	Number of zoom level The minimum value is 3, and the maximum value is 7. You could find information about correlation between zoom levels, X, Y tile coordinate numbers and level scale here
`{x}`	required	Number of x tile coordinate. You could find information about correlation between zoom levels, X, Y tile coordinate numbers and level scale here
`{y}`	required	Number of y tile coordinate. You could find information about correlation between zoom levels, X, Y tile coordinate numbers and level scale here
`appid`	required	Your unique API key (you can always find it on your account page under the "API key" tab)
`tm`	required	Date and time of (Unix time, UTC), e.g. 1600782000. To get historical or forecast data, please specify the date in your API request. To get current data, please specify the the nearest time in the past rounded up to 10 minutes

Please pay attention to the points bellow to avoid possible errors:

Please specify dates in all API requests.
Please specify dates with 10 minutes steps. For example, 1600780200, 1600780800, 1600781400, etc.
Please specify dates not earlier than 2 days from the current time and not later than 6 hours from the current time.

URL example


                  https://maps.openweathermap.org/maps/2.0/radar/forecast/6/13/24?&appid={API key}&tm=1600781400

You need to insert the generated URL into special plugins.

For example, Leaflet, OpenLayers. You can also use any other apps that support the display of layers. Learn more.

Please find below Global Precipitation Map layer example.

URL example to the timestamp in the past


                  https://maps.openweathermap.org/maps/2.0/radar/forecast/7/4/2?&appid={API key}&tm=1703235600

URL example to the timestamp in the future


                  https://maps.openweathermap.org/maps/2.0/radar/forecast/7/4/2?&appid={API key}&tm=1703241000

Open Layers

The following functions are available for the OpenLayers library:

Leaflet

The OpenWeatherMap javascript library is designed to work with the Leaflet mapping service. The current version of the library allows the following: