Nearby Stations

This endpoint enables users to find nearby weather stations by geo location. When calling this endpoint, make sure to provide valid geographic coordinates (decimal degrees) using the lat (latitude) and lon (longitude) parameters. The limit parameter allows us to specify the maximum number of weather stations returned by this endpoint.

By default, the endpoint only returns weather stations which are closer than 100 kilometers to the specified geo location. If you want to limit your query to a certain radius, just set the radius parameter to any integer value.

Endpoint

The endpoint is available through this URL:

GET https://meteostat.p.rapidapi.com/stations/nearby

Parameters

When calling this endpoint, please refer to the following parameters.

Parameter	Description	Types	Required	Default
lat	The latitude of the location	Float	Yes	undefined
lon	The longitude of the location	Float	Yes	undefined
limit	The maximum number of results	Integer	No	10
radius	The radius of the query in meters	Integer	No	100000

Response

The response body includes the following properties.

Parameter	Description	Type
id	The Meteostat ID of the weather station	String
name	Name of the weather station in different languages	Object
distance	The distance to the provided geo location in meters	Float

Example

This example requires the cURL command-line interface. Alternatively, you can use an API client like Postman.

curl --request GET \
	--url 'https://meteostat.p.rapidapi.com/stations/nearby?lat=51.5085&lon=-0.1257&limit=5' \
	--header 'x-rapidapi-host: meteostat.p.rapidapi.com' \
	--header 'x-rapidapi-key: {key}'

Please replace {key} with your personal API key.

Data Response

The response should look like that:

{
  "meta": {
    "exec_time": 0.172,
    "generated": "2021-06-23 18:36:46"
  },
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "03779",
      "name": {
        "en": "London Weather Centre"
      },
      "distance": 1104.3
    },
    {
      "id": "EGLC0",
      "name": {
        "en": "London / Abbey Wood"
      },
      "distance": 16804.1
    },
    {
      "id": "03672",
      "name": {
        "en": "Northolt"
      },
      "distance": 20652.3
    },
    {
      "id": "03772",
      "name": {
        "en": "London Heathrow Airport"
      },
      "distance": 22624.4
    },
    {
      "id": "03781",
      "name": {
        "en": "Kenley"
      },
      "distance": 23370
    }
  ]
}