Weather from terminal

Question

I want to find the current weather of a particular city or my location from terminal. Is there any command-line weather app?

score 187 · Accepted Answer · edited May 13 '18 at 15:46

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Simply enter the following in a terminal:

curl wttr.in

And will get your location from /etc/timezone. Otherwise curl wttr.in/your_location. For example, for Tehran:

curl wttr.in/tehran

Which gives you:

Sample output

You can also compare two cities:

diff -Naur <(curl -s http://wttr.in/london ) <(curl -s http://wttr.in/new-york )

Source code of developer is available on Github.

edited May 13 '18 at 15:46

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Feb 23 '16 at 14:16

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Way much better ! – Zachary Dahan May 13 '16 at 21:33
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https://github.com/schachmat/wego is not bad for the devs between us – Timo Dec 10 '17 at 19:49
like it, but it threw an error this time: Sorry, we are running out of queries to the weather service at the moment. We will get new queries as soon as possible. – Doyousketch2 Jun 28 '19 at 21:15
This no longer works - last response was "Follow @igor_chubin for wttr.in updates" – NightOwlPrgmr Dec 04 '20 at 18:33
One word: Nifty! @NightOwlPrgmr For me this works fine as of 2021-05-31. – stephanmg May 31 '21 at 07:39
Im also getting nothing but Follow @igor_chubin for wttr.in updates – Mark Deven Jan 28 '22 at 21:17
If anyone needs help processing this text. You need to remove all the ansi escape codes first: https://stackoverflow.com/q/14693701/11343425 – SurpriseDog Jun 16 '22 at 20:19
Works for me as of July 2022. – Organic Marble Jul 09 '22 at 00:03

score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 13 '13 at 17:28

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Search for your city at http://www.accuweather.com and replace the URL in the following script with the URL for your city:

#!/bin/sh

URL='http://www.accuweather.com/en/de/berlin/10178/weather-forecast/178087'

wget -q -O- "$URL" | awk -F\' '/acm_RecentLocationsCarousel\.push/{print $2": "$16", "$12"°" }'| head -1

Sample output:

Berlin, Germany: Foggy, 1°

answered Dec 13 '13 at 17:28

Florian Diesch

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But how do I change it to Celcius though – diamondburned Aug 02 '17 at 15:12
In the source html, I see acm_RecentLocationsCarousel.push({name:"Berlin, Germany", daypart:'day', href:'/en/de/berlin/10178/weather-forecast/178087', icon:'i-6-l', bg:'c', temp:'0', realfeel:'-6', text:"Mostly cloudy"});. Using your code, the awkfield separator is ' ' (space). Is $12 (temperature) the 12th column? – Timo Dec 10 '17 at 08:41
My fault, the awk separator is '. The api uses 2 numbers, the first one is the postleitzahl or zipcode. The second seems to be an api code number – Timo Dec 10 '17 at 08:51
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Does not work anymore, has Accuweather API changed? – Timo Dec 31 '18 at 09:58

score 20 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '15 at 19:19

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Here's a great semi-graphical command line utility written in Go:

https://github.com/schachmat/wego/

You'll need to install Go and setup some API stuff, but the instructions are there. Here's a sample pic:

enter image description here

answered Jun 04 '15 at 19:19

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This is being publicly hosted now - with IP address to region mapping. Try: curl -4 http://wttr.in – jschrab Feb 24 '16 at 21:56
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@jschrab: And you don't need -4 actually. curl wttr.in is enough – Igor Chubin Feb 24 '16 at 22:25
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Metric units are also available on the publicly hosted version, like so: curl wttr.in/Helsinki?m – Ville Sep 30 '19 at 20:13
If you need metric, don't forget to escape the question mark like this curl wrrt.in/Helsinki\?m or place the URL in single quotes like this curl 'wttr.in/Helsinki?m' – mchid Dec 22 '20 at 02:22

score 15 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 15 '13 at 05:04

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I have got one more way .

Open your .bashrc file and then paste this code at the bottom

weather(){ curl -s "http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query=${@:-<YOURZIPORLOCATION>}"|perl -ne '/<title>([^<]+)/&&printf "%s: ",$1;/<fcttext>([^<]+)/&&print $1,"\n"';}

Then save & close your .bashrc file.

now type bash to update the file.

then type

weather <location name>

for example

august@august-OEM:~$ weather guntur
December 14, 2013: Clear. High 31&amp;deg;C (87&amp;deg;F). Winds 0 kph North
December 15, 2013: Clear. High 29&amp;deg;C (84&amp;deg;F). Winds 10 kph NNW
December 16, 2013: Clear. High 31&amp;deg;C (87&amp;deg;F). Winds 10 kph North
December 17, 2013: Clear. High 29&amp;deg;C (84&amp;deg;F). Winds 7 kph ENE
December 18, 2013: Scattered Clouds. High 29&amp;deg;C (84&amp;deg;F). Winds 3 kph ENE
December 19, 2013: Scattered Clouds. High 29&amp;deg;C (84&amp;deg;F). Winds 3 kph ENE

answered Dec 15 '13 at 05:04

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Nice with weather forecast. +1 from me. – sourav c. Dec 15 '13 at 05:48
This no longer works, the last dates it shows is from May 2015 (for Cape Town, South Africa at least). Closer examination of the xml output reveals the txt_forecast parent has not been updated since May 2015 while the simpleforecast element seems to have the latest data. – Zahir J Dec 27 '16 at 22:12
I will update my answer – Raja G Dec 28 '16 at 02:06
Replace YOUZIPORLOCATION with $1 if you want weather to work – Ed Neville Jan 17 '18 at 20:23
When I replace YOUZIPORLOCATION with $1 and pass 20001 (Washington, DC zipcode), I get lines that look unformatted like Today: Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. When I use "washington.dc", I get table output May 4, 2015: Clear. High 32&deg;C (89&deg;F). Winds 43 kph East. Any idea why the difference? – blalterman Jan 10 '19 at 13:47
This seems to work fine now. – mchid Jan 27 '19 at 01:47
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I spoke too soon. The api is no longer free and there once was the option to apply for a free key for limited use but this is no longer the case. – mchid Dec 22 '20 at 02:16

user782355 · Answer 5 · 2018-01-13T14:21:35.850

ansiweather

AnsiWeather is a Shell script for displaying the current weather conditions in your terminal, with support for ANSI colors and Unicode symbols. Weather data comes from the OpenWeatherMap free weather API.

sudo apt-get install ansiweather
ansiweather -l London,GB -f 3
London forecast => Sat Jan 13: 7/2 °C ☔ - Sun Jan 14: 4/1 °C ☔ - Mon Jan 15: 9/6 °C ☔

https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather

score 7 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 19 '23 at 20:53

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Another a program that comes pre-installed with Ubuntu called inxi will give you all types of stats on your computer as well as a weather output.

command: inxi --help

command: inxi -w

        Conditions: 82 F (28 C) - Clear Time: May 13, 10:52 AM CDT

command: inxi -wxxx

     Conditions: 82 F (28 C) - Clear Wind: From the SW at 13 MPH Humidity: 60%
   Pressure: 29.99 in (1016 mb) Heat Index: 84 F (29 C)
   Location: city (USA) Altitude: 185 m
   Time: May 13, 10:52 AM CDT (America/Chicago) Observation Time: May 13, 9:54 AM CDT

edited Apr 19 '23 at 20:53

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Seems that inxi is not part of ubuntu, as of 10.04, but can be installed with sudo apt install inxi – Starbuck Nov 28 '18 at 23:35
Yes, inxi is available but you need to enable the universe repository first. – mchid Mar 17 '19 at 07:17

Mitch · Answer 7 · 2013-12-13T17:25:45.400

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First you need to install the weather-util package, to do that just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo apt-get install weather-util

You’ll need your local weather code.

After installation you can run weather -i <code>. The code you get from the link above. For a list of available options, you can run weather^{Weather info}

edited Dec 13 '13 at 17:25

answered Dec 13 '13 at 16:57

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it shows Last updated Dec 11, 2013 - 07:00 AM EST / 2013.12.11 1200 UTC Temperature: 86 F (30 C).is there no way to know the current weather. – Avinash Raj Dec 13 '13 at 17:13
Depending on your location that could be the current info that's available. – Mitch Dec 13 '13 at 17:15
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I just tried this and discovered that it is easier to use now: weather YOURLOCATIONNAME It searches for your location then and provides possibly multiple results. From these you can read the station identifier which you can use as argument to fetch your weather informations from – Nicolas Mar 22 '16 at 23:05
It looks like the service it depends on has been discontinued. I just installed version 2.0, and weather LAX (which should show the weather for Los Angeles International Airport) shows a 404 error for http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KNKX.TXT – Keith Thompson Aug 27 '16 at 20:08
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That particular data file has moved from here to here. It should be possible to update the data files, changing each occurrence of http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data to http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data. UPDATE: Looks like they've already fixed it in version 2.1, which you can get from the project site. – Keith Thompson Jan 31 '17 at 03:08
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Users outside of the US should read weather-utils description though: "[...] providing data for localities throughout the United States of America and some select locations globally [...]" – domsson Jan 13 '18 at 16:09

score 5 · Answer 8 · answered Feb 26 '16 at 02:44

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Try using

telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com

answered Feb 26 '16 at 02:44

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This seems to be US-only? – Vladimir Panteleev Sep 27 '16 at 20:11
Doesn't seem to work in '22 – SurpriseDog Jun 16 '22 at 16:31

Serge Stroobandt · Answer 9 · 2023-04-19T21:01:30.153

Meteogram of all mayor cities in the world

finger city_name@graph.no

$ finger cologne@graph.no
       -= Meteogram for germany/north_rhine-westphalia/cologne =-           

'C                                                                   Rain
 16

 15                           ^^^

 14                  ======^^^   ^^^

 13               ===               ^^^===^^^===

 12                                             =========

 11            ===                                       ====--

 10      ======                                                ---

  9=====|                                                         --- 3 mm 
  8     |  |                                                          2 mm 
  7  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |              |     |  |  |  |  |          1 mm 
   _08_09_10_11_12_13_14_15_16_17_18 19 20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 05 Hour
SE SE SE SE SE SW SW  W  W  W  W SW  W  W  W  W  W NW NW NW  N  N Wind dir.
 5  5  5  5  4  4  5  6  6  6  5  5  5  4  4  5  5  5  4  3  3  3 Wind(mps)


Legend left axis:   - Sunny   ^ Scattered   = Clouded   =V= Thunder   # Fog
Legend right axis:  | Rain    ! Sleet       * Snow
[Weather forecast from yr.no, delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the NRK.]

Adding ~$(tput cols) automatically adapts the graph width to the number of columns available in the shell. The forecast will look further into the future on wide shells.

$ finger cologne~$(tput cols)@graph.no

Here is further information about how to use it:

$ finger help@graph.no
yr.no is having technical problems, or you specified an unknown location.
Usage:

finger <city name>@graph.no (world weather forecast, no spaces)
Example: finger newyork@graph.no

Advanced usage:

finger o:<city name>@graph.no (a one-line forecast)
Example: finger o:newyork@graph.no

finger ^<city name>@graph.no (Imperial units)
Example: finger ^newyork@graph.no

finger <city name>+5@graph.no (forecast from 5 hrs ahead in time (max:26))
Example: finger northpole+5@graph.no

finger <city name>~160@graph.no (set screen width)
Example: finger southpole~160@graph.no

finger <city name>%2@graph.no (forecast for every second hour [Norway])
Example: finger oslo%2@graph.no

finger <post code>@graph.no (norwegian weather forecast)
Example: finger 0458@graph.no


Other:

finger news@graph.no (latest headlines from NRK)
finger time@graph.no (server local time)
finger date@graph.no (server local date)
finger about@graph.no (contact information)

International names comes from http://fil.nrk.no/yr/viktigestader/verda.txt.

The story behind this from the developer.

score 3 · Answer 10 · answered Oct 30 '21 at 20:33

If you are familiar with ICAO station names and METAR weather information from an airport.

sudo apt install metar

and check your preferable airport to get the data from https://www.world-airport-codes.com/ Example for Tokyo International airport/ Haneda = RJTT

metar -d rjtt

Sample output

RJTT 302000Z 34009KT 9999 FEW030 BKN050 14/08 Q1025 NOSIG  
Station       : RJTT  
Day           : 30  
Time          : 20:00 UTC  
Wind direction: 440 (NNE)  
Wind speed    : 9 KT  
Wind gust     : 9 KT  
Visibility    : 9999 M  
Temperature   : 14 C  
Dewpoint      : 8 C  
Pressure      : 1025 hPa  
Clouds        : FEW at 3000 ft  
                BRK at 5000 ft  
Phenomena     :

Unlike weather command, this doesn't understand name of cities or countries. Instead of that feature, this can load quicker and multiple places at once.

score 2 · Answer 11 · answered May 13 '18 at 17:23

You can compare cities using:

diff -Naur <(curl -s http://wttr.in/london ) <(curl -s http://wttr.in/new-york )

as illustrated in the top-voted answer. wttr.in also makes a great "splash" screen every time you open the terminal. Do this by adding it to your ~/.bashrc file. I've done that to include Weather, Date, Time and Distribution information as detailed in this answer: How can I get this terminal splash screen?

Sorry I was in Ubuntu in Windows 10 WSL for Spring 2018 updates when I captured this image. Promise I'll boot back into Ubuntu in Linux soon.

score 2 · Answer 12 · edited Jan 27 '19 at 03:47

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I have got one more way .

Open your .bashrc file and then paste this code at the bottom

test -f ~/.wttr.in || curl -sk wttr.in -o ~/.wttr.in
find ~ -maxdepth 1 -name .wttr.in -cmin +5 -exec curl -sk wttr.in -o ~/.wttr.in \;
head -7 ~/.wttr.in | tail -5
W(){ find ~ -maxdepth 1 -name .wttr.in -cmin +5 -exec curl -sk wttr.in -o ~/.wttr.in \;; head -27 ~/.wttr.in; }

Save & close your .bashrc file and run the following command to update bash:

. .bashrc

then type W upper case

edited Jan 27 '19 at 03:47

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bash: W: command not found – Jan 16 '17 at 04:37
After edit .bashrc relogin – sergkog Dec 14 '17 at 20:38
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You don't have to relogin if you "source" your .bashrc file. You can run: source .bashrc or you can run this instead: . .bashrc – mchid Jan 27 '19 at 03:59

kai-dj · Answer 13 · 2022-07-08T23:35:47.887

For even shorter weather output openweathermap.org provides weather data in json format.

The filds from the JSON can then be obtained with a JSON parser like jq i.e..

I wrote a q&d weather-fetch script, wich gets the current temperature, icon and description of weather, then stores a unicode symbol corresponding to the icon and outputs it like

☂ 6°C

I regularly update via cronjob and then use the output in my tray status.

An API-key is needed for openweathermap - you may send 1000 requests free of charge per day.

The JSON contains further fields, i.e. forecast data, wind etc. – you can parse them, too, if you want. A description of the API can be found at https://openweathermap.org/current#one .

Unfortunatly some weather symbols are not represented in the Ubuntufont… feel free to adjust.

Here's my script. Change location if you don't life in Hamburg,DE and replace dummy value with your API-key. Depends on curl and jq.

#!/usr/bin/env sh
#☁☂☔❄❅❆☃ ☀☁☂⚡⚐☼⛅☇☈☾
#settings - adjust
APIKEY="DUMMY"
LAT="53.618814544576594"
LON="10.131139271164836"
#build query url
QUERY="https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat="$LAT"&lon="$LON"&appid="$APIKEY"&units=metric"
write json to variable
WEATHER_JSON=$(curl -Ls "$QUERY")
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
  exit 0
fi
get fields from xml via xmllint | xargs for trimming
weather description
WEATHER_TEXT=$(jq -r '.weather | .[0] | .description' - <<<"$WEATHER_JSON" | xargs);
WEATHER_ICON_CODE=$(jq -r '.weather | .[0] | .icon' - <<<"$WEATHER_JSON" | xargs);
temperature
WEATHER_TEMPERATURE=$(jq -r '.main | .temp' - <<<"$WEATHER_JSON" | cut -d '.' -f 1 | xargs);
set $WEATHER_SYMBOL according to $WEATHER_TEXT
if   [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "01d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☼"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "01n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☾";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "02d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="⛅";elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "02n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☁";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "03d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☁"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "03n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☁";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "04d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☁"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "04n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☁";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "09d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☔"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "09n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☔";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "10d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☂"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "10n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☂";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "11d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="⚡"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "11n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="⚡";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "13d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="❄"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "13n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="❄";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "50d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="⛆";elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "50n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="⛆";
if unknown icon, set text instead of symbol
else WEATHER_SYMBOL="$WEATHER_TEXT";
fi
output <symbol><space><temp-in-°C>
echo "$WEATHER_SYMBOL"" ""$WEATHER_TEMPERATURE""°C";
exit 0;

EDIT 2022-07-09: Since tuxnet24.de does not provide weather anymore. I changed the provider to openweathermap. (this also involves json beeing parsed instead of xml in the former version) /EDIT

Switching shebang to #!/usr/bin/env bash fixed for me, Ubuntu 18.04 — Philip Kirkbride, Feb 16 '19 at 04:11
rewrote script to use non-404-service. thanks for pointing out, @SurpriseDog — kai-dj, Jul 08 '22 at 23:36

score 1 · Answer 14 · answered Jun 28 '20 at 23:24

I've just made a quick endpoint that returns the weather, along with some more metrics:

curl https://curl-weather.herokuapp.com/

Note that it currently only displays the weather for London (UK). Here's the Github repo in case you'd like to clone or open issues: https://github.com/nkhil/weather-script

score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Jul 02 '14 at 07:02

Although accuweather curl solution is pretty good I needed something more informational, so I created simple bash script that pulls info for next 4 hrs from weather.com website. As in previous example you have to modify link for your location.

Example output:
$ ./getWeather.sh
Temperature for 1 AM : 65&deg;F and outside should be: Partly - Cloudy FEELS LIKE:   65&deg;
Temperature for 2 AM : 65deg;F and outside should be: Partly - Cloudy FEELS LIKE: 65deg;
Temperature for 3 AM : 63deg; and outside should be: Partly - Cloudy FEELS LIKE: 63deg;
Temperature for 4 AM : 62deg; and should be: Mostly - Clear FEELS LIKE: 62deg;

Full script is located at: https://sites.google.com/site/wozoopalinux/home/wzbash001/get-weather-information-from-command-line-for-next-4-hrs

Weather from terminal

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Meteogram of all mayor cities in the world

write json to variable

get fields from xml via xmllint | xargs for trimming

weather description

temperature

set $WEATHER_SYMBOL according to $WEATHER_TEXT

if unknown icon, set text instead of symbol

output <symbol><space><temp-in-°C>