The South African Weather Service has a variety of weather products and services which can be customized to meet your needs.
Our portfolio of offerings includes:
Without the need for downloading an App, you can access the weather by dialing *120*7297# By selecting your area or date, weather information is available at a click on your phone.
In 2024, the South African Weather Service (National Meteorological Authority in South Africa) partnered with METEORAGE, to provide the lightning detection solutions to the South African market through the exploitation of data from our lightning detection network.
In drought-prone South Africa every raindrop counts. To optimally benefit from the available rainfall, access to real-time weather information is essential. The South African Weather Service and HydroNET have joined forces to provide reliable weather forecasts (including the 6 month seasonal forecast in Grid format), real-time and historical weather data to you.
HydroNET is a multiple award winning web-based decision support system which transfers weather and water data into sophisticated applications and dashboards available online, without the need for software downloads. These applications enable you to make well-informed and transparent WeatherSmart decisions. Further information can be obtained from HydroNET Website
The WeatherSmart App from the South African Weather Service (SAWS), provides you with location based forecasts and other handy weather information for your immediate surroundings.
WeatherSmart includes the following features and options:
To download the WeatherSmart application, install the app from the IOS and Android store.
The Weather Application Programming Interface (API) is offered through our partner AfriGIS. This API allows users to access a set of functions and procedures to create applications from the following datasets: thunderstorms, lightning and, in the near future, weather alerts.
The Weather API can be accessed at the following link: Weather API link