This page provides information about the weather codes used in various Foreca data feeds. Below you will find the mapping between weather codes and symbols. You can use your own symbols or our custom symbolset free of charge which you can download from the bottom of this page.

The codes work as follows:

Letter (D/N) distinguishes day and night symbols from eachother. We provide different symbols for night and daytime since it can cause confusion if daytime symbols are used to describe night time weather.

For example: daytime, overcast, sleet showers: d421

First number indicates cloudiness

• 0 clear
• 1 almost clear
• 2 half cloudy
• 3 broken
• 4 overcast
• 5 thin high clouds
• 6 fog

Second number indicates precipitation rate

• 0 no precipitation
• 1 slight precipitation
• 2 showers
• 3 precipitation
• 4 thunder

Last number indicates type of the precipitation

• 0 rain
• 1 sleet
• 2 snow

Mouse over the text codes to see the explanation. Pictures are provided only for some of the codes and nonsensical combinations don't even have standard text descriptions. The forecast symbols can also be mapped by Foreca to any subset of the provided symbols. We suggest only using the ones with pictures provided in any end-user services

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