Datafeeds catalogue

Ensure your web sites and portals can add real value by offering up-to-date global, national, regional and local forecasts - use our weather expertise to take your online presence further.

Websites using Met Office data

Contents

• Instructions
• Order form
• Met Office website link button
• Key/glossary
• Customer enquiries

Instructions

• Click on the 'Info' and 'Sample' buttons to find out more about the products.
• Check the 'Request data' box next to the product(s) you would like to purchase. For city forecasts, enter the number of cities you would like to be licenced for.
• Enter your details in the form at the bottom of the page.
• Read the terms and conditions, and check the box if you agree to them.
• Click on the 'Submit' button to send us your request.
• We will contact you to arrange payment for, and delivery of, the requested products.
• A key and glossary of terms can be found at the bottom of this page.
• If you have any queries about the datafeeds, please contact our customer centre.

Use this form to find out about and order the datafeeds

Datafeed name and description		Format	Info	Sample	Price Exc VAT		Request data
UK national forecast: UK Forecast for next 24 hours		Text, XML			£515
UK regional forecasts: Regional UK forecasts for next 24 hours, for 15 regions.		Text, XML			£515
UK severe weather warnings: Severe weather warnings or local and unitary authority areas.		Text			£515
UK inshore waters forecast: Forecast for inshore water areas around coastline of UK.		Text, XML			£515
UK shipping forecast: Forecast for shipping areas around UK, from Iceland to Spain.		Text, XML			£515
4,300 world cities five-day forecast: Forecast of max. and min. temperature and weather for each day out to five days for 4,300 cities worldwide, including 300 UK cities.		Text, XML			No. of cities Price ex. VAT   1-5 £300 4,300 world cities five-day forecast: 1-5 cities 6-25 £500 4,300 world cities five-day forecast: 6-25 cities 26-50 £750 4,300 world cities five-day forecast: 26-50 cities 51-100 £1,000 4,300 world cities five-day forecast: 51-100 cities 101-250 £3,000 4,300 world cities five-day forecast: 101-250 cities 251-500 £4,000 4,300 world cities five-day forecast: 251-500 cities 501-1,000 £5,000 4,300 world cities five-day forecast: 501-1000 cities 1,001-2,000 £6,500 4,300 world cities five-day forecast: 1001-2000 cities 2,001-4,300 £8,000 4,300 world cities five-day forecast: 2001-4300 cities
UK land observations: Actual observations for 60 UK locations.		Colon delimited			£4,120
Latest world observations: Three-hourly observations of wind speed and direction, temperature, significant weather, visibility, pressure and pressure tendency, and humidity for around 3,000 locations worldwide.		Text			£5.15/city (min 100 cities)		No. of cities:
UK cities detailed five-day forecasts: Forecast of temperature, weather, wind speed and direction, cloud cover and sea state in three-hourly timesteps for the first two days, then six-hourly timesteps for the next three days.		Comma delimited			No. of cities Price ex. VAT   1-5 £515 UK cities detailed five-day forecasts: 1-5 6-10 £1,000 UK cities detailed five-day forecasts: 6-10 11-20 £2,000 UK cities detailed five-day forecasts: 11-20 21-30 £3,000 UK cities detailed five-day forecasts: 21-30 31-50 £5,000 UK cities detailed five-day forecasts: 31-50 51-111 £10,000 UK cities detailed five-day forecasts: 51-111
World cities current weather: Actual max. and min. temperature and weather for 171 global locations.		Text - fixed width			£2,060
European visible satellite: Visible satellite image covering Atlantic and Europe.		JPEG			£2,965
European infrared satellite: Infrared satellite image covering Atlantic and Europe.		JPEG			£2,965
Time and Place: Weather at time of issue and forecast for the next 6 hours in hourly time steps. Forecast elements include wind speed, direction, percentage probability of rain, visibility, wind gust, temperature, cloud cover and precipitation type.		Text			No. of locations Price ex. VAT   Up to 1,000 £5,000 Time and Place: 0-1000 locations Up to 2,000 £8,000 Time and Place: 0-2000 locations Up to 5,000 £12,000 Time and Place: 0-5000 locations Up to 10,066 £15,000 Time and Place: 0-10066 locations
UV forecast Solar UV index for UK and world cities		Text			£515

Prices are for a 1-year subscription unless otherwise stated.

Information that the Met Office requires:
For the Met Office to set up a service for you we require customer details for both the writing of the contract and the technical set-up of the service. When you decide you want to subscribe to a service you will be sent a copy of our Standard Terms and Conditions, along with the Standard Form of Contract (please note as a rule no amendments to our Standard Terms and Conditions are permitted). Once you have had the opportunity to read the Standard Terms and Conditions document and the Standard Form of Contract and have decided that you are happy with all enclosed within then you will need to sign the contract and return it to the Met Office. On receiving the signed Standard Form of Contract, we will take the technical details that you have supplied and set up the service for you. Once the service has been set up an invoice will be despatched with a 30-day payment period.
Customer details:
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* Registered company name:
* Registered address:
Invoice address: (if different to registered address)
* Contact name:
* Contact e-mail:
* Contact telephone number:
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Symbol set If you are requesting UK or World city datafeeds, and you would like to use the Met Office symbol set, please check the box here. Other information If you would like other information, or if you wish to discuss our consultancy services, please check the box here. Data Protection Act If you would like to receive Met Office offers and information about services appropriate to you, please check the box here. The Met Office is an Executive Agency of the UK Ministry of Defence. The Met Office is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998. Conditions on the use of the data Prices quoted above are for single website use only - please contact our customer centre to discuss other arrangements. You must read and agree to our standard terms and conditions for the use of this data before you submit this form. The UK national and regional forecast datafeed services are products produced by the Public Weather Service (PWS). Although this service is permitted to be delivered to commercial users for use on their websites and intranet sites, you should be aware that the Public Weather Service could change aspects of the service, including the format, delivery times and content. We will try to notify you as soon as possible of any changes, but it is the service delivery mechanism that you are paying for and not the actual content. The Public Service script delivery times are nominal only and other weather events may delay their routine time of issue.   Check this box if you agree to these terms of use

 

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Met Office website link button

This image should be used on websites that use Met Office data and linked to http://www.metoffice.gov.uk

The button may be downloaded by right-clicking on the image and selecting the save image option. If you have any problems please contact enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk.

 

 

 

Key/Glossary

Click on the 'Info' button to see the detailed product specification.

Click on the 'Sample' button to see an example of the product (in a pop-up window). A sample of the actual datafeed product can be downloaded from the relevant information page.

CSV - Comma Separated Variables (also referred to as Comma Delimited)

XML - Extensible Markup Language

JPEG - Joint Photographics Experts Group (image format)

GIF - Graphics Interchange Format (image format)

Symbol set - Basic graphics package (in zipped format) containing the standard Met Office weather symbols and regional maps. The symbol set is available if purchasing the 4,000 world cities, UK regional or UK cities detailed five-day forecasts. To request the symbol set, please check the appropriate box on the form above.

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Customer enquiries

If you have any queries about the datafeeds, please contact our customer centre.