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.
Recently 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 make the most of the available water resources, access to the best possible weather information is essential. That’s why the South African Weather Service and HydroLogic have joined forces—to deliver high-quality historical, current, and forecasted weather data to you in real-time.
The HydroLogic Weather Control Room is a cloud-based solution that offers easy access to sophisticated dashboards with relevant weather information from stations, satellites, and weather models—tailored to your area of interest. These user-friendly dashboards empower you to make well-informed, transparent WeatherSmart decisions. No software installation is required. Learn more on the HydroLogic 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