Retrieve Weather Data from the Open-Meteo API.
openmeteo
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 locationweather_history()
- retrieve historical weather observations for a locationweather_now()
- simple function to return current weather for a locationweather_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 nameclimate_forecast()
- return long-range climate modelling for a locationriver_discharge()
- return flow volumes for the nearest rivermarine_forecast()
- return ocean conditions data for a locationair_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.