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🌧️ API Paquet Radar (EN)

🌧️ API Paquet Radar (EN)

Jun 12, 2025 updated on Jul 10, 2025

 

To find out more about API products, please visit the radar data description.

 

Pre-requisite: you must have consulted the Météo-France portal API user guide

It is also advisable to read the Radar Data API operating manual, which contains general information on accessing Météo-France radar products.

Main features of this API

  • Data retention time (depth) = 20h

  • Real-time = yes

  • Archive = no

  • Access granularity = all radar station mosaics or products

  • Domain = mainland and overseas France

  • Update frequency = 15 minutes

  • Synchronous/asynchronous = synchronous

  • Limitation(s) : grouping of products from the previous 1/4 h (see product documentation)

 

How the API works

This API provides access to 15-minute packages of real-time radar data from Météo-France.

It has been designed to enable simplified downloading of all the latest composite images produced over mainland France and the French overseas territories in a single operation or to retrieve all recent production for a particular radar site via a single query.

  1. to download mosaics: download all mosaics with the web service /mosaique/paquet

  2. to download a station's products

    1. find the ID of the radar station you're looking for with the web service: /liste-stations

    2. download all radar station products with web service: /station/paquet

Common mistakes

  • error 400 : radar station non-existent or incorrectly identified. As a reminder, each Météo-France radar station is identified by two digits. This identifier can be retrieved via a /liste-stations query.

  • error 404 : may occur very rarely if the desired data is unavailable due to a production problem upstream in the Météo-France processing chain.

 

Use case

  1. In development mode, I want to retrieve all composite radar products for all major zones in France and overseas: 
    "Mosaic" package download request:

    curl -X 'GET' 'https://public-api.meteofrance.fr/public/DPPaquetRadar/v1/mosaique/paquet' -H 'accept: */*' -H 'Authorization: Bearer <your_token_here>'

    this request downloads a zipped archive file containing all the mosaics for the previous quarter-hour. This includes the last 3 deadlines for each type of product. For example, you'll find 5-minute reflectivity mosaics for metropolitan France for H-15, H-10 and H-5.

  2. In development mode, I want to download all the raw data produced by the Bollène radar: 
    BOLLENE's radar data package download request:

    curl -X 'GET' 'https://public-api.meteofrance.fr/public/DPPaquetRadar/v1/station/paquet?id_station=55 -H 'accept: */*' -H 'Authorization: Bearer <your_token_here>'

    here I retrieve a zipped archive file containing all the data for the last quarter-hour (reflectivity, PAM data and PAG data). This includes the last 3 deadlines for each product type. For example, you'll find 5-minute reflectivity data for H-15, H-10 and H-5.

  3. As a reminder, the list of all radars in CSV format can be consulted using the query: 
    list of all radars download request:

    curl -X 'GET' 'https://public-api.meteofrance.fr/public/DPPaquetRadar/v1/liste-stations' -H 'accept: */*' -H 'Authorization: Bearer <your_token_here>'

    thanks to this file you can retrieve the numerical identifier of all our radars.