A custom Home Assistant integration for Open-Meteo weather forecasting. Provides more accurate forecasts and richer weather data than the built-in open_meteo integration.
The most significant difference is the timezone handling. The built-in integration uses UTC as the day boundary for daily forecasts. This means that "today's" forecast is aggregated over a UTC day (00:00–23:59 UTC), not your local day. For example, in JST (UTC+9), the daily high temperature would be calculated from 09:00–32:59 local time, mixing two calendar days. This integration uses the local timezone (auto), so daily forecasts correctly represent local calendar days.
In addition, this integration exposes many more weather attributes and uses more efficient API communication.
- Local timezone: Daily forecast aggregation uses local calendar days instead of UTC days.
- FlatBuffers format: Uses
openmeteo-sdkfor efficient binary parsing instead of the JSON-basedopen-meteolibrary. - Faster updates: Polls every 15 minutes (built-in is 30 minutes).
| Feature | Built-in open_meteo |
open_meteo_local |
|---|---|---|
| Current: Temperature | Yes | Yes |
| Current: Humidity | No | Yes |
| Current: Dew point | No | Yes |
| Current: Apparent temperature | No | Yes |
| Current: Cloud coverage | No | Yes |
| Current: Pressure (MSL) | No | Yes |
| Current: Visibility | No | Yes |
| Current: Wind speed | Yes | Yes |
| Current: Wind bearing | Yes | Yes |
| Current: Wind gust speed | No | Yes |
| Current: UV index | No | Yes |
| Current: Ozone | No | No |
| Current: Day/Night awareness | No | Yes |
| Daily: Temperature max/min | Yes | Yes |
| Daily: Apparent temperature | No | Yes |
| Daily: Precipitation sum | Yes | Yes |
| Daily: Precipitation probability | No | Yes |
| Daily: Wind speed / direction | Yes | Yes |
| Daily: Wind gust speed | No | Yes |
| Daily: UV index | No | Yes |
| Daily: Humidity | No | No |
| Daily: Dew point | No | No |
| Daily: Cloud coverage | No | No |
| Daily: Pressure | No | No |
| Hourly: Temperature | Yes | Yes |
| Hourly: Precipitation | Yes | Yes |
| Hourly: Humidity | No | Yes |
| Hourly: Dew point | No | Yes |
| Hourly: Apparent temperature | No | Yes |
| Hourly: Precipitation probability | No | Yes |
| Hourly: Cloud coverage | No | Yes |
| Hourly: Pressure | No | Yes |
| Hourly: Wind speed / direction / gusts | No | Yes |
| Hourly: UV index | No | Yes |
| Hourly: Day/Night awareness | No | Yes |
The built-in integration maps WMO weather codes with limited granularity — for example, thunderstorms are all shown as lightning, and freezing drizzle/rain is treated as plain rainy.
This integration provides more accurate condition mapping:
| WMO Weather Code | Built-in open_meteo |
open_meteo_local |
|---|---|---|
| Freezing Drizzle / Rain | rainy |
snowy-rainy |
| Thunderstorm | lightning |
lightning-rainy |
| Thunderstorm with hail | lightning |
hail |
| Clear sky (at night) | sunny |
clear-night |
- Open HACS in your Home Assistant instance.
- Add this repository as a custom repository:
- URL:
https://github.com/sayurin/open_meteo_local - Category: Integration
- URL:
- Search for "Open-Meteo local" and install it.
- Restart Home Assistant.
- Copy the
custom_components/open_meteo_localdirectory to your Home Assistantconfig/custom_components/directory. - Restart Home Assistant.
- Go to Settings → Devices & Services → Add Integration.
- Search for Open-Meteo local.
- Select a zone to use for the weather location.
The integration creates a weather entity bound to the selected zone. The location (latitude/longitude) is read from the zone entity, so updating the zone will update the weather data location.
- Uses the Open-Meteo API with FlatBuffers format (
openmeteo-sdk) for efficient binary parsing, instead of the JSON-basedopen-meteolibrary used by the built-in integration. - Polls every 15 minutes.
- Provides 48-hour hourly forecasts and 7-day daily forecasts.
- Timestamps use the local timezone (
auto) for more intuitive forecast times.
See LICENSE.
