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.

Please use the form below to find out about, and order, the available datafeeds.

Contents

• Instructions
• Order form
• Met Office web site 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.

Order form

Datafeed name and description		Format	Info	Sample	Price Exc VAT	Price Inc VAT	Request data
UK national forecast: UK Forecast for next 24 hours		Text			£515	£605.13
UK regional forecasts: Regional UK forecasts for next 24 hours, for 15 regions.		Text			£515	£605.13
UK severe weather warnings: Severe weather warnings for 13 UK regions.		Text			£515	£605.13
UK inshore waters forecast: Forecast for inshore water areas around coastline of UK.		Text			£515	£605.13
UK shipping forecast: Forecast for shipping areas around UK, from Iceland to Spain.		Text			£515	£605.13
4,000 world cities five-day forecast: Forecast of max. and min. temperature and weather for each day out to five days for 4,000 cities worldwide, including 300 UK cities.		Comma delimited			£21/city (min 25 cities)	£24.68/city	No. of cities:
UK land observations: Actual observations for 60 UK locations.		Colon delimited			£4,120	£4,841
Latest world observations: Three-hourly observations of windspeed and direction, temperature, significant weather, visibility, pressure and pressure tendency, and humidity for around 3,000 locations worldwide.		Comma delimited			£5.15/city (min 100 cities)	£6.05/city	No. of cities:
UK cities detailed five-day forecasts: Forecast of temperature, weather, windspeed 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			£205/city (min 3 cities)	£240.88/city	No. of cities:
World cities current weather: Actual max. and min. temperature and weather for 171 global locations.		Text - fixed width			£2,060	£2,420.50
European visible satellite: Visible satellite image covering Atlantic and Europe.		JPEG			£2,965	£3,483.88
European infrared satellite: Infrared satellite image covering Atlantic and Europe.		JPEG			£2,965	£3,483.88

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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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 Met. Service (PMS). 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 Met. 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 web site link button

One of the following buttons should be used on websites that use Met Office data. The button should be linked to http://www.metoffice.gov.uk . The buttons 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.

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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.