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Weather Forecast Data - Edinburgh

Included in Point forecast API

Available for all plans

Weather forecasts are provided by Meteosources's machine learning technology, which uses a multitude of different weather models but minimises their errors, resulting in extremely high accuracy (read about our AI weather forecasts). Predictions are available for any location on Earth.

  • minute-by-minute forecast for the next hour
  • hourly forecast out to 7 days
  • daily forecast out to 30 days (including text summaries)
  • average weather statistics and astronomy data
  • severe weather data in the US, Canada, and EU

See the list of all variables available in our API

Example of weather forecast API usage

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Wednesday
8. 5.
Cloudy. Temperature 8/17 °C. Wind from SW in the afternoon.
17 °C
wind 8 mph
rain 7%
Thursday
9. 5.
Cloudy. Temperature 12/18 °C. Wind from SW.
18 °C
wind 12 mph
rain 7%
Friday
10. 5.
Cloudy, fewer clouds in the evening. Temperature 12/20 °C.
20 °C
wind 5 mph
rain 2%
Saturday
11. 5.
Mostly cloudy, more clouds in the afternoon. Temperature 10/21 °C.
21 °C
wind 4 mph
rain 3%
Sunday
12. 5.
Partly sunny changing to possible rain in the afternoon. Temperature 13/20 °C.
20 °C
wind 5 mph
rain 33%
Monday
13. 5.
Light rain changing to rain showers by afternoon. Temperature falling to 14 °C. Wind from S in the afternoon.
14 °C
wind 9 mph
rain 62%
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(Now) 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00
Air temperature 16 °C 15 °C 14 °C 14 °C 13 °C
Feels-like temperature 13 °C 12 °C 12 °C 11 °C 10 °C
Cloud cover 87% 87% 87% 87% 87%
Precipitation 0 mm 0 mm 0 mm 0 mm 0 mm
Wind speed 15.3 mph 11.6 mph 10.1 mph 8.7 mph 9.7 mph
Wind direction WSW WSW WSW WSW WSW
Wind gusts 25 mph 21 mph 19 mph 17 mph 16 mph
Atmospheric pressure 1024 hPa 1024 hPa 1024 hPa 1025 hPa 1025 hPa
Humidity 58% 67% 71% 76% 80%
Dew point 9 °C 9 °C 9 °C 10 °C 10 °C
Irradiation 288 W/m2 67 W/m2 16 W/m2 0 W/m2 0 W/m2

Best-in-class accuracy

Our data are approximately 5% more accurate for a 2-day forecast and 12% more accurate for a 7-day forecast. Forecast accuracy is based on temperature, clouds, and precipitation forecasts errors. A higher percentage means better forecast accuracy (100% -forecast without error- is unachievable).

Forecast accuracy comparision

Available data

Weather forecast API includes the following variables (depending on your subscription plan):

  • weather icon and description
  • temperature (measured, feels-like, wind-chill) in °C or °F
  • wind forecast (direction, speed, gusts)
  • precipitation (amount, type and rate, precipitation in the neighborhood)
  • total cloud cover, including different levels of cloud
  • text weather summaries in 13 languages (English, German, Spanish, French, Czech, Russian, Arabic, Hindi,...)
  • probabilities of rain, thunderstorms, frost,...
  • average weather statistics and astronomy data
  • weather warnings (in the EU, USA, Canada)
  • atmospheric pressure
  • humidity and dew point
  • sunshine duration
  • irradiation
  • visibility in m or mi
  • UV index
  • ozone
  • snow depth in cm or in
  • special variables like soil temperature, surface temperature, evaporation, etc.
  • weather predictability and uncertainty of forecast

For more information see Point Weather Forecast API documentation.

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