About the data
loqation gives every town of 15,000 people or more its own page. Each section of a page says where its numbers come from and whether they were measured, modelled or forecast. Nothing on the site is written by hand about a particular place.
Where it comes from
- Places
- GeoNames
cities15000: name, position, population, elevation, time zone. CC BY 4.0. - Descriptions and images
- The introduction and lead image of the English Wikipedia article linked to each place through Wikidata. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Weather
- Open-Meteo forecast API, which blends national weather services' models. A forecast.
- The past twelve months
- Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis through Open-Meteo's archive API. Modelled on a ~25 km grid.
- Air
- Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) forecast through Open-Meteo. Modelled. Bands are the EEA's European Air Quality Index.
- Events
- Agenda PT, Portugal only.
- Nearby
- Wikipedia articles with coordinates, found with the Wikipedia geosearch API.
- Air quality in depth (Portugal)
- airhome: station history and 1 km annual maps.
How live sections load
Weather, air, events and nearby articles load in your browser straight from those services when you open a page. loqation stores none of it and keeps no record of which places you looked at.