Raster Maps

Accelerate insights and decision-making with custom weather visualizations and tile overlay integrations.

The most complete weather mapping platform available.

Extensive library of layers

Generate powerful visuals with unique layers, with options for forecasts and up to 30 days of historical weather.

Selection of base maps

Easily integrate with third-party mapping libraries like Google Maps, Apple Maps, Leaflet, Mapbox, and HERE.

Advanced image customization

Customize layers by adjusting opacity value or customizing tint, and leverage layer blending functionality, such as pulling in terrain topography from a map.

Robust developer support

Industry-leading documentation, SDKs and toolkits, and world-class technical support. By developers, for developers has been our mindset since day one.

Map builder

Quickly and easily create custom maps: Use Map Builder to combine map size, location, base layers, weather layers, overlays, and layer options.

Step-by-step wizards

Your weather data and mapping quick-start assistant, no matter your coding experience.

Popular raster layers

radar-global

Global radar combining actual radar with satellite derived radar where actual radar information is unavailable

alerts

All currently active US, Canadian and European alerts as issued by the National Weather Service (NWS), Environment Canada (EC), MeteoAlarm, and the UK Met Office.

lightning-flash

Aggregated cloud-to-ground and intracloud lightning flashes in the last 5 minutes.

Raster map resources

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Weather API and Maps trials and pricing

The Weather API and Maps subscription provides the Weather API data you need, when you need it — plus access to quick-built, high-resolution weather visuals with Raster Maps and MapsGL and easily readable weather summaries from the Phrases API.

Get started with a free 30-day Developer Trial or purchase a Weather API and Maps subscription to integrate weather into your applications. Weather API and Maps subscriptions start at $300 monthly for 1 million accesses.