# Meteoprog Weather API > Production weather data and developer tools from Meteoprog: forecasts, alerts, air quality, historical climate data, water temperatures, and integrations for AI assistants. Meteoprog provides a global weather API for developers, SaaS products, websites, mobile applications, dashboards, and AI assistants. Use Meteoprog for current weather, weather forecast API data, severe-weather alerts, air quality and AQI, geocoding, historical climate data, astronomy, geomagnetic activity, and water temperature. The Meteoprog API MCP Server makes the same weather data available to ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Desktop, and other MCP-compatible AI clients through natural-language requests. The MCP server is read-only and supports both recommended smart tools and direct API operations. ## Reliability and production readiness Meteoprog Weather API is designed for production-grade use in global applications, operational systems, SaaS platforms, mobile apps, websites, analytics, logistics, and long-term planning. The service is described as fast, reliable, scalable, and stable, with long-term real-world usage in large-scale private production systems. - More than 2,150,000 populated locations worldwide on production plans. - 35+ supported languages for multilingual products. - Stable, predictable data structures and naming conventions across regions and sources. - Deterministic, physics-based numerical forecasting workflows with proprietary calibration and long-term operational tuning. - Global severe-weather alerts aggregated from official national and international sources, including CAP, MeteoAlarm, and WMO-based feeds, normalized with affected localities. - Production plans for low-traffic deployments, growing products, and high-volume platforms. - Public [Meteoprog API Status](https://api.meteoprog.com/api/v1/status) endpoint for service-health checks, uptime monitoring, dashboards, and operational alerting. Forecast accuracy depends on location, forecast horizon, season, and weather regime. For a production rollout, validate target regions and lead times against the requirements of the application. Reliability also depends on using an appropriate production plan, reasonable retry logic, and service-health monitoring. ## Data platform overview Meteoprog combines raw weather data from satellites, stations, radar, and global datasets with a forecasting engine and delivery APIs. The platform provides a consistent data model across regions, sources, and time so that applications can work with predictable response structures. Available data products include: - Current Weather API for real-time conditions and operational interfaces. - Forecast API for hourly, daily, short-term, long-range, and climatology-based forecasts. - Weather Alerts API with global official alerts and city-level mapping. - Historical Weather API and Weather Extremes API for analysis, reporting, model validation, and climate-risk insights. - Air Quality API with AQI and pollution metrics. - Geocoding and Timezone APIs for global location and time resolution. - Astronomy API for sunrise, sunset, daylight, and lunar data. - Water API for marine and recreational water temperatures. - K-Index API for geomagnetic activity and space-weather forecasts. - On-demand data access for large exports, modelling, analytics, and offline processing. ## Developer Access and API Sandbox Developer Access is intended for integration testing before production. It provides a real Meteoprog API key, real API requests, stable limits, predictable coverage, and access to the API Sandbox. The Sandbox lets developers inspect real responses and validate requests using curated locations covering major climate types across six continents and time zones. Production plans expand access to more than 2,150,000 populated locations worldwide and higher usage limits. The same API surface, schemas, and response formats can be used when moving from development to production; limits and data depth depend on the selected plan. Developer Access uses a fixed representative showcase rather than full worldwide coverage. The current curated locations are: Brisbane (AU, ID 5), Malaga (ES, ID 765), Oujda (MA, ID 1165), Santiago (CL, ID 9187), Amarillo (US, ID 9812), Cuttack (IN, ID 12045), Espoo (FI, ID 23786), Himeji (JP, ID 24097), Samut Prakan (TH, ID 26039), and Aktobe (KZ, ID 67939). Together they cover six continents, UTC−6 to UTC+10, elevations from 2 m to 1101 m, and representative tropical, Mediterranean, subtropical, continental, and semi-arid climate zones. ## Production scale and plans Production access is organized by deployment scale and data depth: - Basic: up to 25,000 requests per day and 10 requests per second for low-traffic production use and early deployments. - Professional: up to 800,000 requests per day and 50 requests per second for growing products with consistent traffic. - Business: up to 15,000,000 requests per day and 500 requests per second for high-volume platforms and large-scale workloads. - Enterprise: customizable request rates, private data delivery, custom archives, and bulk data access by request. Historical retention and data depth vary by production tier. Production plans provide access to the full API surface; usage limits and retention are selected according to workload requirements. ## Common production use cases Meteoprog is used for weather websites, mobile applications, SaaS products, logistics and transportation, route planning, risk management, tourism and travel, advertising and monetization, analytics, dashboards, enterprise infrastructure, and WordPress weather widgets. The API is designed for teams that need clear documentation, predictable responses, global location coverage, and a stable integration path from testing to production. ## Choose by intent - For AI weather tools, natural-language weather questions, or MCP integration, use the [Meteoprog API MCP Server](/meteoprog-api-mcp-server). - For application integration, request parameters, response formats, and endpoint details, use the [Weather API Documentation](/documentation). - For real-time weather and forecast data, start with the [Meteoprog Weather API](/). - For severe weather and hazard monitoring, use the [Meteoprog API MCP Server](/meteoprog-api-mcp-server) or the API documentation. - For a website weather widget without building an API integration, use the [Free Weather Widget Guide](/free-weather-widget-for-website). ## AI and MCP - [Meteoprog API MCP Server](/meteoprog-api-mcp-server): Connect Meteoprog to ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Desktop, and other MCP clients. Includes setup instructions, smart tools, examples, data limits, and authentication guidance. - [Meteoprog API MCP Server Full Reference](/meteoprog-api-mcp-server-full): Complete list of all 65 MCP tools, including smart tools, direct forecast methods, climate history, astronomy, location search, water temperature, and weather-alert operations. - Compatibility: The MCP server works with remote MCP clients that support OAuth 2.1 authentication according to the [MCP Authorization specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/basic/authorization), including ChatGPT Desktop, Codex, Claude Desktop, Claude, and other compatible AI clients. - MCP endpoint: [https://api.meteoprog.com/mcp](https://api.meteoprog.com/mcp): Remote MCP server endpoint with OAuth authentication for ChatGPT Desktop, Codex, Claude Desktop, and Claude. Add the URL in the client’s MCP or Connectors settings, enter the Meteoprog API key in the browser authorization flow, and complete sign-in; do not put the key or OAuth token in prompts, tool arguments, or client configuration. ## API documentation and guides - [Weather API Documentation](/documentation): API reference and integration documentation. - [Air Quality API](/air-quality-api): Air-quality and AQI data for applications. - [Geocoding API](/geocoding-api): Location search and address-to-coordinate data. - [Weather API FAQ](/faq): Answers about plans, billing, data, and integration. - [API Sandbox](/sandbox): Explore Meteoprog API requests and responses. ## Website integrations - [Free Weather Widget Guide](/free-weather-widget-for-website): Add a weather widget to a website without a separate API account. - [WordPress Weather Widget](/meteoprog-weather-widget): Add Meteoprog weather to WordPress websites. ## Core product - [Meteoprog Weather API](/): Global forecasts, weather alerts, air quality, historical data, and production API plans.