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Interestingly, all of the data which is shown in the DWD app, and third-party apps, is available free of charge since 2019.

You can look at the price list here: https://www.dwd.de/SharedDocs/downloads/DE/allgemein/preisli...

All the important stuff is free.

So one would just have to develop a free app to process and display this data ;)



Interesting, I did not expect the high-resolution COSMOS-D2 and ICON weather models to be available free of charge. Cool!

Basically, the data is free, but most higher-level processing results are not (like point forecasts derived from the models).


Actually, point forecasts are also free – but only for places where they already have to create the forecasts (you can find those on their FTP for free).

It’s high quality data, for free, you’d just have to build your own frontend.


Not even German and I'll chip in for this as long as the app ends up open source.




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