aid: yr-no name: Yr description: >- Yr is a weather service from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway) and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), providing free, high-quality weather forecasts for locations worldwide via a simple REST interface. The MET Weather API offers a comprehensive suite of products including location-based forecasts, weather alerts, nowcasts, ocean forecasts, aviation weather, sunrise and sun event calculations, radar imagery, and historical meteorological observation data. All data is open under CC BY 4.0 and requires only a User-Agent identification header — no API key or account is needed. type: Index image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yr-no/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2026-06-13' modified: '2026-06-13' specificationVersion: '0.19' tags: - Weather - Forecasts - Meteorology - Climate - Norway - Nordic - Open Data - Aviation Weather - Marine Weather - Alerts apis: - name: Locationforecast API description: >- Weather forecasts for any location on Earth up to nine days ahead, returning temperature, wind, precipitation, cloud cover, humidity, and more. Available in compact JSON, complete JSON with probabilistic percentiles, and legacy XML formats. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/documentation baseURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/ tags: - Weather Forecast - Location - Global properties: - type: Documentation url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/documentation - type: OpenAPI url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/swagger - name: MetAlerts API description: >- Weather alerts and warnings issued by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute for Norway and surrounding areas, returned as CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) XML or GeoJSON. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/metalerts/2.0/documentation baseURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/metalerts/2.0/ tags: - Weather Alerts - Warnings - Norway properties: - type: Documentation url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/metalerts/2.0/documentation - type: OpenAPI url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/metalerts/2.0/swagger - name: Nowcast API description: >- Immediate short-range weather forecasts for the Nordic area based on radar data, providing precipitation and wind for the next two hours. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/nowcast/2.0/documentation baseURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/nowcast/2.0/ tags: - Nowcast - Short-range Forecast - Nordic properties: - type: Documentation url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/nowcast/2.0/documentation - type: OpenAPI url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/nowcast/2.0/swagger - name: Sunrise API description: >- Calculate sun and moon rise, set, and transit events as seen from any specific location on Earth, including civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight times. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/sunrise/3.0/documentation baseURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/sunrise/3.0/ tags: - Sunrise - Sunset - Moon - Astronomy - Global properties: - type: Documentation url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/sunrise/3.0/documentation - type: OpenAPI url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/sunrise/3.0/swagger - name: Frost API description: >- REST API for historical meteorological observation data from weather stations worldwide, maintained by MET Norway. Access time-series temperature, precipitation, wind, and other observations. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://frost.met.no/howto.html baseURL: https://frost.met.no/ tags: - Observations - Historical Data - Climate - Global properties: - type: Documentation url: https://frost.met.no/howto.html - name: Oceanforecast API description: >- Ocean forecasts for points at sea in Northwestern Europe, providing wave height, sea temperature, current direction and speed, and salinity. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/oceanforecast/2.0/documentation baseURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/oceanforecast/2.0/ tags: - Ocean - Marine - Forecast - Northwestern Europe properties: - type: Documentation url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/oceanforecast/2.0/documentation - type: OpenAPI url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/oceanforecast/2.0/swagger - name: Radar API description: >- Radar composite images for various areas in the Nordic region, providing near real-time precipitation radar data in multiple formats and scan types. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/radar/2.0/documentation baseURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/radar/2.0/ tags: - Radar - Precipitation - Nordic properties: - type: Documentation url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/radar/2.0/documentation - type: OpenAPI url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/radar/2.0/swagger - name: Air Quality Forecast API description: >- Forecasts of air quality for locations in Norway, including concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, NO2, and ozone, with daily and hourly granularity. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/airqualityforecast/0.1/documentation baseURL: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/airqualityforecast/0.1/ tags: - Air Quality - Pollution - Norway properties: - type: Documentation url: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/airqualityforecast/0.1/documentation common: - type: Website url: https://www.yr.no/en - type: Documentation url: https://developer.yr.no/ - type: GitHubOrg url: https://github.com/YR - type: GitHubOrg url: https://github.com/metno - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/met-norway/ - type: Blog url: https://developer.yr.no/ - type: Pricing url: https://developer.yr.no/doc/TermsOfService/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://developer.yr.no/doc/TermsOfService/ - type: License url: https://developer.yr.no/doc/License/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://www.met.no/en/About-us/privacy - type: X url: https://twitter.com/meteorologene - type: Facebook url: https://www.facebook.com/yrno-22652235447/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://developer.yr.no/doc/GettingStarted/ - type: Plans url: plans/yr-no-plans-pricing.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/yr-no-rate-limits.yml - type: FinOps url: finops/yr-no-finops.yml maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com