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Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview
Comprehensive 2025 guide to weather radar APIs by Rain Viewer's founder. Compare Rainbow.ai, OpenWeatherMap, meteoblue, Tomorrow.io, and Xweather with pricing, features, and migration strategies for developers.
After 10 years of building and maintaining Rain Viewer, I’ve made one of the most difficult decisions of my career: transitioning our API services to limited operation throughout 2025. Rain Viewer isn’t disappearing - we’ll continue providing radar data through our website and maintain our tiled map service for personal and educational use. Last year, we replaced OpenWeatherMap with our own system that grabs precipitation types from models, allowing us to display not only rain and snow, but also ice pellets and sleet on the map much better.
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