The forecast endpoint
provides up to 96 hours (4 days) of hourly air
quality forecast information for a given location. Each forecast includes hourly
air quality indexes as well as additional information:
- Specific time and date or time period for forecast
- Language code for translated fields
- Local or custom air quality index (AQI)
- Health recommendations
- Dominant pollutants
- Pollutant concentration
- Additional information about pollutants
- Response page size
- Color palette
The APIs Explorer lets you make live requests so that you can get familiar with the API and the API options:
About forecast requests
You can request hourly air quality forecast information using the forecast endpoint by sending an HTTP POST request to:
https://airquality.googleapis.com/v1/forecast:lookup?key=YOUR_API_KEY
Include your parameters in the request body. The request body contains the location for which you would like to get air quality hourly forecast information and various options to control what additional information to include in the response.
About forecast responses
The response body provides the UTC date and time for which to display air quality forecast information, air quality indexes, and additional customized information. The response body also includes a token to retrieve the next page if the information does not fit within the requested page size.
Example of basic request
The following code shows how to construct a forecast request. In this example, you specify the location, date and time (beginning from the next hour up to 96 hours) for which to show hourly air quality forecast information.
curl -X POST -d '{
"location": {
"latitude": 37.4125333,
"longitude": -122.0840937
},
"dateTime": "2024-02-09T08:00:00Z"
}' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept-Language: *" \
"https://airquality.googleapis.com/v1/forecast:lookup?key=YOUR_API_KEY"
The call generates the following JSON response.
{ "hourlyForecasts": [ { "dateTime": "2024-02-09T08:00:00Z", "indexes": [ { "code": "uaqi", "displayName": "Universal AQI", "aqi": 80, "aqiDisplay": "80", "color": { "red": 0.34509805, "green": 0.74509805, "blue": 0.20784314 }, "category": "Excellent air quality", "dominantPollutant": "pm25" } ] } ], "regionCode": "us" }
Example of request with multiple parameters
The following code shows how to construct a request body with multiple parameters. In this example, you specify the following:
- Location
- Time period for which to display air quality forecast information
- Language code
- Extra computations (such as health recommendations, the dominant pollutant concentration, and additional pollutant information)
- Color palette
curl -X POST -d '{
"pageSize": "10",
"universalAqi": "true",
"location": {
"latitude": "40.741895",
"longitude": "-73.989308"
},
"period": {
"startTime": "2024-02-27T13:58:14+02:00",
"endTime": "2024-02-28T16:58:14+02:00"
},
"languageCode": "en",
"extraComputations": [
"HEALTH_RECOMMENDATIONS",
"DOMINANT_POLLUTANT_CONCENTRATION",
"POLLUTANT_ADDITIONAL_INFO"
],
"uaqiColorPalette": "RED_GREEN"
}' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept-Language: *" \
"https://airquality.googleapis.com/v1/forecast:lookup?key=YOUR_API_KEY"
The call generates the following JSON response.
{ { "hourlyForecasts": [ { "dateTime": "2024-02-27T11:00:00Z", "indexes": [ { "code": "uaqi", "displayName": "Universal AQI", "aqi": 75, "aqiDisplay": "75", "color": { "red": 0.43137255, "green": 0.7764706, "blue": 0.20392157 }, "category": "Good air quality", "dominantPollutant": "pm25" } ], "pollutants": [ { "code": "pm25", "displayName": "PM2.5", "fullName": "Fine particulate matter (\u003c2.5µm)", "concentration": { "value": 15.1, "units": "MICROGRAMS_PER_CUBIC_METER" }, "additionalInfo": { "sources": "...", "effects": "..." } } ], "healthRecommendations": { "generalPopulation": "...", "lungDiseasePopulation": "...", "heartDiseasePopulation": "...", "athletes": "...", "pregnantWomen": "..." } }, { "dateTime": "2024-02-27T12:00:00Z", "indexes": [ { "code": "uaqi", "displayName": "Universal AQI", "aqi": 67, "aqiDisplay": "67", "color": { "red": 0.5882353, "green": 0.8392157, "blue": 0.16862746 }, "category": "Good air quality", "dominantPollutant": "pm25" } ], "pollutants": [ { "code": "pm25", "displayName": "PM2.5", "fullName": "Fine particulate matter (\u003c2.5µm)", "concentration": { "value": 19.96, "units": "MICROGRAMS_PER_CUBIC_METER" }, "additionalInfo": { "sources": "...", "effects": "..." } } ], "healthRecommendations": { "generalPopulation": "...", "lungDiseasePopulation": "...", "heartDiseasePopulation": "...", "athletes": "...", "pregnantWomen": "...", "children": "..." } }, /.../ ] } "regionCode": "us", "nextPageToken": "CjMKEglwCFVq9l5EQBH0aoDSUH9SwBoQCgYI1pDirgYSBgiGiOiuBiABKgMCBAMyAmVuOAEQGA==" }
To view the next page of forecast information, pass in the nextPageToken
returned at the end of the response body:
curl -X POST -d '{
"universalAqi": "true",
"location": {
"latitude": "40.741895",
"longitude": "-73.989308"
},
"period": {
"startTime": "2024-02-27T13:58:14+02:00",
"endTime": "2024-02-28T16:58:14+02:00"
},
"languageCode": "en",
"extraComputations": [
"HEALTH_RECOMMENDATIONS",
"DOMINANT_POLLUTANT_CONCENTRATION",
"POLLUTANT_ADDITIONAL_INFO"
],
"uaqiColorPalette": "RED_GREEN",
"pageToken": "CjMKEglwCFVq9l5EQBH0aoDSUH9SwBoQCgYI1pDirgYSBgiGiOiuBiABKgMCBAMyAmVuOAEQGA=="
}' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept-Language: *" \
"https://airquality.googleapis.com/v1/forecast:lookup?key=YOUR_API_KEY"
This returns the next page of forecast information:
{ "hourlyForecasts": [ { "dateTime": "2024-02-27T21:00:00Z", "indexes": [ { "code": "uaqi", "displayName": "Universal AQI", "aqi": 74, "aqiDisplay": "74", "color": { "red": 0.44705883, "green": 0.78431374, "blue": 0.2 }, "category": "Good air quality", "dominantPollutant": "o3" } ], "pollutants": [ { "code": "o3", "displayName": "O3", "fullName": "Ozone", "concentration": { "value": 32.07, "units": "PARTS_PER_BILLION" }, "additionalInfo": { "sources": "...", "effects": "..." } } ], "healthRecommendations": { "generalPopulation": "...", "elderly": "...", "lungDiseasePopulation": "...", "heartDiseasePopulation": "...", "athletes": "...", "pregnantWomen": "...", "children": "..." } }, { "dateTime": "2024-02-27T22:00:00Z", "indexes": [ { "code": "uaqi", "displayName": "Universal AQI", "aqi": 75, "aqiDisplay": "75", "color": { "red": 0.43137255, "green": 0.7764706, "blue": 0.20392157 }, "category": "Good air quality", "dominantPollutant": "o3" } ], "pollutants": [ { "code": "o3", "displayName": "O3", "fullName": "Ozone", "concentration": { "value": 30.94, "units": "PARTS_PER_BILLION" }, "additionalInfo": { "sources": "...", "effects": "..." } } ], "healthRecommendations": { "generalPopulation": "...", "lungDiseasePopulation": "...", "heartDiseasePopulation": "...", "athletes": "...", "pregnantWomen": "...", "children": "..." } }, /.../ ] "regionCode": "us" }