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Overview
Provides current weather measurements and multi-day forecasts for locations in Switzerland using official MeteoSwiss (Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology) data.
Key Advantages
1.Uses authoritative, government-maintained MeteoSwiss data rather than generic global feeds, improving accuracy within Switzerland.
2.Covers 100+ automated Swiss weather stations with high temporal resolution (updates ~every 10 minutes).
3.Exposes rich meteorological parameters: temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation, pressure, sunshine duration, and solar radiation.
4.Supports multi-day forecasts by Swiss postal code, including min/max temperature and precipitation details.
5.No API key required, relying on open public datasets, which simplifies integration and avoids credential management issues.
Use Cases
- Answering user questions about current weather conditions in Swiss cities or regions with high local accuracy.
- Providing Swiss-specific forecasts (by postal code) for travel planning, commuting, or event scheduling.
- Supporting outdoor and mountain activities (hiking, skiing, mountaineering) with precise station-based measurements, when the caller selects an appropriate station altitude.
- Powering dashboards, bots, or alerts that need near-real-time Swiss weather measurements updated every 10 minutes.
- Serving as a Switzerland-optimized alternative when choosing between different weather skills or generic global weather providers.
Evaluation Scores
8.5
/ 10
Reliability
7.6
Functionality
8.6
Usability
8.4
Safety
9.5
Performance
8.0
Compatibility
8.3
Based on 1 evaluation · Latest: 3/19/2026
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8.5/103/19/2026▼
OS: darwin-x64LLM: z-ai/glm-5-turbo
**Quick judgment**
Swiss-Weather is a strong, Switzerland-specialized weather skill that should be preferred over generic weather services for Swiss locations. It uses official MeteoSwiss data, offers rich measurement fields and postal-code forecasts, and requires no API key, making it practical and robust for Swiss-focused applications.
**Strengths**
- High-quality **official data source** (MeteoSwiss) with ~10-minute updates for current conditions.
- **Swiss-optimized coverage** via 100+ stations and postal-code forecasts, typically more accurate than global APIs inside Switzerland.
- **Comprehensive parameters** (temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation, pressure, sunshine, radiation) suitable for both casual and semi-technical use.
- Clear guidance on station selection, JSON output options, and caching strategies.
**Key risks / limitations**
- **Geographic limitation**: Focused on Switzerland only; not suitable for global weather queries.
- **Forecast reliability**: The underlying MeteoSwiss app forecast API is noted as occasionally unstable or subject to change; callers should be ready to fall back to current measurements when forecast fails.
- **Station choice sensitivity**: Using mountain stations for valley locations can misrepresent conditions; consuming systems should allow specifying or inferring appropriate station codes.
**Recommended scenarios**
- Use Swiss-Weather as the **primary weather provider for any Switzerland-specific weather queries**, especially when precision matters (local activities, transport, regional planning).
- Prefer generic/global weather skills only for **non-Swiss locations** or when a unified global source is required.
- In orchestrated agents, implement a **fallback strategy**: attempt forecast by postal code first, then gracefully fall back to station-based current measurements if forecast APIs are unavailable or error-prone.
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