NOAA

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name: NOAA
description: >-
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides a suite
  of publicly accessible REST APIs delivering weather observations, forecasts,
  alerts, climate data, ocean conditions, and historical environmental records
  from the US federal government. The National Weather Service API
  (api.weather.gov) offers real-time forecasts, active alerts, radar data,
  and observations across the continental United States and territories. NOAA
  also publishes the Climate Data Online (CDO) API for access to historical
  climate and weather datasets, the CO-OPS Tides and Currents API for water
  level and oceanographic data, and the Aviation Weather API for aeronautical
  weather products. All NOAA APIs are free to use as open government data with
  no licensing restrictions.
type: Index
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created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
  - Weather
  - Climate
  - Forecast
  - Alerts
  - Ocean
  - Tides
  - Aviation Weather
  - Government
  - Open Data
  - Environmental
apis:
  - name: National Weather Service API
    description: >-
      The NWS API provides public access to critical forecasts, alerts,
      observations, and other weather data through a RESTful, JSON-LD based
      web service. It supports gridpoint forecasts, active weather alerts,
      radar data, point-based lookups, zone forecasts, NWS office information,
      and NOAA Weather Radio scripts. The API is free, requires no
      authentication, and only asks that callers supply a User-Agent header
      for identification.
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    humanURL: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api
    baseURL: https://api.weather.gov
    tags:
      - Weather
      - Forecast
      - Alerts
      - Radar
      - Observations
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://api.weather.gov/openapi.json
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/noaa-nws-openapi.yml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/noaa-nws-alert.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/noaa-nws-alertcollection.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/noaa-nws-observation.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/noaa-nws-zone.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/noaa-nws-point.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/noaa-nws-alert-example.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/noaa-nws-gridpoint-forecast-example.json
      - type: GitHubRepository
        url: https://github.com/weather-gov/api
  - name: Climate Data Online (CDO) API
    description: >-
      The NOAA Climate Data Online Web Services API v2 provides RESTful access
      to the CDO database of historical weather and climate data maintained by
      the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Data types
      include daily summaries, normals, precipitation, temperatures, and storm
      events from thousands of global stations. Access requires a free token
      obtained by registering an email address with NCDC.
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    humanURL: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2
    baseURL: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/api/v2
    tags:
      - Climate
      - Historical Data
      - Weather Records
      - NCEI
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2
      - type: TokenRequest
        url: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/token
  - name: CO-OPS Tides and Currents API
    description: >-
      The NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
      (CO-OPS) Data Retrieval API provides access to water levels, tide
      predictions, currents, and meteorological observations from hundreds
      of monitoring stations around US coasts and inland waterways. Additional
      metadata and derived product APIs complement the primary data retrieval
      service. The API is free and requires no authentication.
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    humanURL: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api/
    baseURL: https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api/prod
    tags:
      - Tides
      - Currents
      - Water Levels
      - Ocean
      - Coastal
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api/
      - type: MetadataAPI
        url: https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/mdapi/prod/
  - name: Aviation Weather API
    description: >-
      The NOAA Aviation Weather Center Data API provides structured aviation
      weather products including METARs, TAFs, PIREPs, SIGMETs, G-AIRMETs,
      and station/airport information. It serves worldwide coverage for
      standard aeronautical weather and is used by pilots, dispatchers, and
      aviation weather services. The API returns data in JSON, XML, CSV,
      GeoJSON, and raw text formats, and enforces a rate limit of 100 requests
      per minute.
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    humanURL: https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/
    baseURL: https://aviationweather.gov/api/data
    tags:
      - Aviation
      - METAR
      - TAF
      - PIREP
      - SIGMET
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://aviationweather.gov/data/schema/openapi.yaml
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/noaa-aviation-weather-openapi.yml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/noaa-aviation-metarjson.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/noaa-aviation-tafjson.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/noaa-aviation-pireptext.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/noaa-aviation-airsigmetjson.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/noaa-aviation-metar-example.json
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.noaa.gov
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.weather.gov/documentation
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/NOAAGov
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/weather-gov
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/noaa
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.noaa.gov/news
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://www.weather.gov/im/tecnews
  - type: X
    url: https://x.com/NWS
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/noaa-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/noaa-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/noaa-finops.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/noaa-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/noaa-context.jsonld
  - type: Example
    url: examples/noaa-coops-tides-example.json
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]