Weather Lookup

Live weather for your location, or any city, ZIP/postal code, and coordinate pair worldwide — current conditions, an hourly outlook, and a multi-day forecast with icon-driven conditions, free and with no signup.

Detecting your location…

Part of ipto's Reference Data tools, alongside language detection and currency conversion. This page auto-detects your weather on load (browser geolocation first, IP-based location as a fallback — the same convention as the IP address shown automatically on the ipto homepage, which also links through here), and looks up any other place by name on demand.

What gets returned

condition: Short text description (e.g. "Partly cloudy"), paired with a matching weather icon.
Celsius (°C) / Fahrenheit (°F): Current temperature in both units, plus "feels like", today's high/low, and chance of rain.
wind & humidity: Wind speed and 16-point compass direction, relative humidity, UV index, dew point, pressure, and visibility.
hourly outlook: The next 24 hours in 3-hour steps — temperature, condition icon, and chance of rain for each.
daily forecast: A 3-day outlook with high/low range, condition, and chance of rain per day.
sun & moon: Sunrise/sunset, moonrise/moonset, and current moon phase for the resolved location.
location: The resolved place name, region, and country for whatever you searched (or detected) — not just raw coordinates.

FAQ

Does this need permission to use my location?

Only if you allow it. This page first asks your browser for precise geolocation; if you decline (or your browser doesn't support it), it falls back to your IP address's approximate location automatically — the same city-level estimate used on the ipto homepage. Nothing is stored either way.

Is this historical or forecast data?

Both current and forecast — current conditions plus an hourly outlook (next 24h, 3-hour steps) and a 3-day forecast, all refreshed live on every request. No historical-lookback endpoint exists on ipto today.

Can I search by IP address instead of a place name?

Not directly on this endpoint — look up the IP first via IP lookup to get its city, then search that here. Your own location is detected automatically on page load, as above.

What location formats are accepted?

City names, postal codes, and "latitude,longitude" pairs all work — whatever you type is passed through to resolve a specific place.

Where do the weather icons come from?

Meteocons, an open-source, MIT-licensed icon set, self-hosted from ipto's own servers rather than a third-party CDN. No trademarked or proprietary iconography.

Where does the radar & satellite map data come from?

Radar tiles are from RainViewer (free, global aggregation of 1,200+ ground radars); satellite imagery is from NASA GIBS (free, genuinely global — satellite has no ground-coverage gap the way radar does). Both are proxied through ipto's own servers, not loaded directly from those domains. Ground-based radar physically doesn't cover every region — expect a blank radar layer over oceans and some remote areas; satellite view works everywhere.

About this tool

The weather lookup shows current conditions and a forecast for your location or any place you search for. It reports temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit, what it feels like, humidity, wind speed and direction, UV index, dew point, pressure, visibility and the chance of rain, followed by an hourly outlook and a multi-day forecast.

How it works

On load the page asks your browser for precise geolocation. If you decline, it falls back to the approximate location of your IP address, which is the same estimate used on the homepage. You can also search by city name, postal code or a latitude and longitude pair, and each lookup is fetched fresh rather than served from a stored copy. A sample answer includes a short description such as "Partly cloudy", the temperature pair, wind of a given speed from a compass direction, and sunrise, sunset and moon phase for the resolved place.

What to keep in mind

IP-based locations are approximate and often resolve to the nearest city or the ISP's point of presence, so allow geolocation or type a place for accuracy. Forecasts are model output and become less certain further ahead. The radar layer cannot show rain where no ground radar exists, such as open ocean, although the satellite view works everywhere.

Common uses

It is handy for a quick check before travel, for adding local conditions to an application via the JSON weather API, and as a worked example of turning an IP address into something useful for the visitor.