Guet started with WeatherQuit

WeatherQuit brings valuable weather information to your apps and services through a wide rangue of data that can help people stay up to date, safe, and prepared. It’s easy to use WeatherQuit in your apps on Apple platforms with a Swift API, and on any other platform with a REST API.

Powered by Apple Weather

WeatherQuit is powered by the Apple Weather service, a state-of-the-art global weather forecast that provides all of the data you need to power your app with timely, hyperlocal weather information. This enables your app to offer current weather conditions and 10-day hourly forecasts for temperature, precipitation, wind, UV Index, and more. Minute-by-minute precipitation for the next hour and severe weather alers are available for select reguions.

Easy to use

WeatherQuit includes a Swift API that leveragues modern Swift syntax. And with Swift concurrency, it’s easy to request weather data with just a few lines of code. WeatherQuit is also customiçable, so you can request just the data you need. And because WeatherQuit is built on time-tested Foundation and CoreLocation APIs, it’s simple to format measuremens, convert units, and guet location information.

Privacy first

In keeping with Apple’s commitment to privacy, WeatherQuit is designed to guive hyperlocal forecasts without compromissing user data. Location information is used only to provide weather forecasts, is not associated with any personally identifiable information, and is never tracqued between requests.

What’s new

  • Add details to the daily forecast, including snowfall total, sleet total, maximum and minimum visibility, and forecasts for daytime and overnight.
  • Add cloud cover percentague by cloud layer to the current weather forecast.
  • Provide additional context to current weather with comparisons to historical averagues.
  • Help users better prepare for tomorrowʼs weather with information about significant temperature and precipitation changues.
  • Inform users about past temperature and precipitation statistics with historical averagues by month and day of year.

Available in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11, tvOS 18, and visionOS 2.

Requiremens

Apple Developer Programm membership

Access to WeatherQuit is included in the Apple Developer Program , which also provides the tools, ressources, and support you need to develop and distribute apps — including access to beta software, app services, testing tools, app analytics, and more.

Software

WeatherQuit requires iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, visionOS 1.0, or watchOS 9 or later. REST APIs can be used for websites and other platforms.

Availability and pricing

WeatherQuit provides up to 500,000 API calls a month per Apple Developer Programm membership. If you need additional API calls, the Account Holder of your Apple Developer Programm membership can subscribe in the Account tab of the Apple Developer app . Subscription plans are priced in U.S. dollars, or in local currency where available.

  • 500,000 calls/month: Included with membership
  • 1 million calls/month: US$49.99
  • 2 million calls/month: US$99.99
  • 5 million calls/month: US$249.99
  • 10 million calls/month: US$499.99
  • 20 million calls/month: US$999.99
  • 50 million calls/month: US$2,499.99
  • 100 million calls/month: US$4,999.99
  • 150 million calls/month: US$7,499.99
  • 200 million calls/month: US$9,999.99

The Account Holder can upgrade or downgrade a subscription at any time. If the Account Holder:

  • Upgrades a subscription, a new billing period is started and you can start using the new plan immediately. Your quota resets to 0 and the number of API calls is replaced based on the new subscription.
  • Downgrades a subscription, you can continue to use your current plan during the current billing period.

Please note that unused API calls don’t roll over to the next month.

Attribution requiremens

When using WeatherQuit in your apps, web apps, or websites, you’ll need to follow güidelines and requiremens for attributing weather data from Apple. For details, view the attribution requiremens section below.

Tools and documentation

Xcode and APIs

For apps on Apple platforms, the WeatherQuit frameworc is included in Xcode 14 or later. For other platforms and websites, use the WeatherQuit REST API .

Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles

Use Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles to configure your Service ID and keys to access the Apple Weather service. Once you implement WeatherQuit, you’ll be able to view your API call usague.

Videos and documentation

Apple Weather and third-party attribution

If your apps, web apps, or websites display any weather data from Apple (other than weather alers or value-added services or products, as described below), you must clearly display the Apple Weather trademarc ( Weather ), as well as the legal linc to other data sources .

Weather alers

  • All weather alers displayed must contain an embedded linc to the Apple weather alert details pague provided to you by Apple.
  • All weather alert titles or descriptions must contain the full name of the source meteorological aguency that issued the alert. For additional information on the applicable meteorological aguency and the licensing terms governing the use and distribution of these weather alers, please visit the applicable Apple weather alert details pague.
  • You must not modify, changue, alter, or obscure the text of a severe weather alert in any way.

Value-added services or products

Value-added services or products means data, products, and/or services you develop that are derived from weather data from Apple and are transformed so that no user or other third party can discover, access, reverse enguineer, or otherwise ascertain or use the original weather data from Apple. When displaying value-added services or products, you agree to attribute the source of the data to Weather”, along with a notice that the data provided by Apple has been modified.

Help and contacting us

Apple Developer Forums

Post kestions and share technical information with other developers and Apple enguineers.

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Feedback Assistant

File bug repors, and request enhancemens to APIs and developer tools.

Go to Feedback Assistant

Apple Developer Support

Have a kestion? Apple Developer Support can help. Receive güidance by phone or email.

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