fcastevalbygroup
Forecast Model Scores by Area
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Scores how well each forecast model actually performed at each of many locations, by comparing what the models predicted against what was then observed. Returns one score matrix per location, models by evaluation metrics, for a single weather metric at a single lead time, plus the winning model per location.
<br><b>When to use:</b> Answer 'which forecast model is most accurate here?' at scale — to map the best model by region, to check whether a specific model is worth using over the default blend, or to compare physical and AI models across the world.
<br><b>Date format:</b> ymd_start and ymd_end are YYYYMMDD and inclusive. Inclusive day range as YYYYMMDD. Defaults to the 14 days ending yesterday; today is never included because it has not been verified yet. At most 180 days, which is also how much history the index retains.
<br><b>Performance:</b> Filter by ctryid, latlon+radius_km or a small sample_pct to keep it fast; a global 5 percent sample over 14 days is a few hundred locations.
<br><b>Prerequisites:</b> None. Supply locid, name, latlon+radius_km, ctryid, or nothing at all with a sample_pct for an unbiased global sample.
<br><b>Investigate:</b> Use this to find where a model is strong or weak. Ask for one metric and one lead_time at a time; compare models by reading across each row of evals, and use winners for the answer at a glance.
<br><b>Augment:</b> Back a claim about forecast reliability with the measured error of the named model at that place over the recent past.
<br><b>Notes:</b> Forecasts come from Open-Meteo. Lead time is the number of days ahead the forecast was issued, so lead_time 1 is yesterday's forecast for today; only the indexed lead times are available. The WN2 model is an ensemble mean, which is smoother than the deterministic models and so tends to score slightly better on mae and rmse and slightly worse on extremes. A score is null, never zero, when its sample was too small to measure: fewer than 5 verified days for mae, rmse, mse, bias and ets, or fewer than 10 for acc. Returns: metric, unit, lead_time, ymd_start, ymd_end, days, models, eval_metrics, sample_pct, sample_pct_effective, seed, buckets, count, scanned, truncated, note, error, results, locid, location, evals, n, winners.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ctryid | string | no | Comma-separated ISO country codes from /api/countries, e.g. US,CA. Omit for a global query. This endpoint compares many locations and has no single-location argument; for one place use fcastevalbylocation |
| eval_metrics | string | no | Evaluation metrics, comma-separated, any of: 'mae' mean absolute error in the metric's own unit, lower is better; 'rmse' root mean squared error, same unit, lower is better, more sensitive to large misses than mae; 'mse' the same squared, lower is better; 'bias' mean signed error, positive means the model forecasts too high, zero is best; 'acc' anomaly correlation coefficient from -1 to 1, higher is better, which measures whether the model got the departure from the local seasonal normal right rather than just the absolute value, so a model that always forecasts the local average scores near zero however small its mae; 'ets' equitable threat score from -1/3 to 1, higher is better, the standard precipitation score, which is only valid for the accumulation metrics obs.rain.mean and obs.snow.mean and uses the threshold argument. Defaults to mae,rmse,acc. A cell whose sample was too small is returned as null, never as zero. (default: mae,rmse,acc) |
| lead_time | string | no | Forecast lead time in days. A lead time is how many days ahead the forecast was issued, so lead time 1 is yesterday's forecast for today and lead time 10 is a forecast made ten days before the day it describes. Only these lead times are indexed: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10. Asking for any other lead time is an error, not an empty result. One value only here; use fcastevalbylocation to compare lead times. (default: 1) |
| limit | string | no | Maximum locations returned, 1 to 4000 (default: 500) |
| metric | string | no | Metric names are literal and case-sensitive. Never drop the 'obs.' segment and never drop the '.mean' suffix. The eight metrics are: max_t.mean, min_t.mean, obs.temp.mean, obs.dewp.mean (C); obs.rain.mean, obs.snow.mean (mm); obs.wind.mean, obs.gust.mean (km/hr). They are daily quantities: max_t.mean and min_t.mean are the day's high and low, obs.temp.mean the day's mean temperature, obs.dewp.mean the day's mean dew point, obs.rain.mean and obs.snow.mean the day's total precipitation and snowfall, obs.wind.mean the day's mean wind speed and obs.gust.mean the day's maximum gust. Exactly one metric per request. Full list: max_t.mean, min_t.mean, obs.temp.mean, obs.dewp.mean, obs.rain.mean, obs.snow.mean, obs.wind.mean, obs.gust.mean (default: obs.temp.mean) |
| models | string | no | Forecast models, given as comma-separated keys: auto (Open-Meteo's own per-location blend — what a caller gets by default), IFS (ECMWF IFS 0.25 degree, physical NWP), GFS (NCEP GFS), AIFS (ECMWF AIFS, machine-learned, deterministic), WN2 (Google WeatherNext 2, ensemble mean). Defaults to all of them. |
| sample_pct | string | no | Percent of the world's locations to sample, from 0.1 to 100. Sampling is by stable hash bucket, so every location has an equal chance of being selected and the sample is unbiased by geography. The granularity is one bucket, which is 2.5 percent, and a request is rounded up to whole buckets; the response reports the sample_pct_effective actually served and the buckets drawn. Defaults to 5 percent for a global query, and to 100 when ctryid is given, because sampling exists to bound a world-sized scan and naming countries is already a restriction. |
| seed | string | no | Any string. The sample of locations is drawn deterministically from it, so the same seed always returns the same locations. Every response reports the seed it used, including when one was not supplied, so any result can be reproduced exactly by sending that seed back. |
| threshold | string | no | Precipitation threshold in mm per day for the 'ets' eval metric, ignored otherwise. A day counts as a wet-day event when the total is at or above this. Useful rungs are 0.2, 1.0, 5.0, 10.0, 25.0. (default: 1.0) |
| ymd_end | string | no | Last day evaluated, YYYYMMDD, inclusive |
| ymd_start | string | no | Inclusive day range as YYYYMMDD. Defaults to the 14 days ending yesterday; today is never included because it has not been verified yet. At most 180 days, which is also how much history the index retains. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"ctryid": {
"description": "Comma-separated ISO country codes from /api/countries, e.g. US,CA. Omit for a global query. This endpoint compares many locations and has no single-location argument; for one place use fcastevalbylocation",
"type": "string"
},
"eval_metrics": {
"description": "Evaluation metrics, comma-separated, any of: 'mae' mean absolute error in the metric's own unit, lower is better; 'rmse' root mean squared error, same unit, lower is better, more sensitive to large misses than mae; 'mse' the same squared, lower is better; 'bias' mean signed error, positive means the model forecasts too high, zero is best; 'acc' anomaly correlation coefficient from -1 to 1, higher is better, which measures whether the model got the departure from the local seasonal normal right rather than just the absolute value, so a model that always forecasts the local average scores near zero however small its mae; 'ets' equitable threat score from -1/3 to 1, higher is better, the standard precipitation score, which is only valid for the accumulation metrics obs.rain.mean and obs.snow.mean and uses the threshold argument. Defaults to mae,rmse,acc. A cell whose sample was too small is returned as null, never as zero. (default: mae,rmse,acc)",
"type": "string"
},
"lead_time": {
"description": "Forecast lead time in days. A lead time is how many days ahead the forecast was issued, so lead time 1 is yesterday's forecast for today and lead time 10 is a forecast made ten days before the day it describes. Only these lead times are indexed: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10. Asking for any other lead time is an error, not an empty result. One value only here; use fcastevalbylocation to compare lead times. (default: 1)",
"type": "string"
},
"limit": {
"description": "Maximum locations returned, 1 to 4000 (default: 500)",
"type": "string"
},
"metric": {
"description": "Metric names are literal and case-sensitive. Never drop the 'obs.' segment and never drop the '.mean' suffix. The eight metrics are: max_t.mean, min_t.mean, obs.temp.mean, obs.dewp.mean (C); obs.rain.mean, obs.snow.mean (mm); obs.wind.mean, obs.gust.mean (km/hr). They are daily quantities: max_t.mean and min_t.mean are the day's high and low, obs.temp.mean the day's mean temperature, obs.dewp.mean the day's mean dew point, obs.rain.mean and obs.snow.mean the day's total precipitation and snowfall, obs.wind.mean the day's mean wind speed and obs.gust.mean the day's maximum gust. Exactly one metric per request. Full list: max_t.mean, min_t.mean, obs.temp.mean, obs.dewp.mean, obs.rain.mean, obs.snow.mean, obs.wind.mean, obs.gust.mean (default: obs.temp.mean)",
"type": "string"
},
"models": {
"description": "Forecast models, given as comma-separated keys: auto (Open-Meteo's own per-location blend — what a caller gets by default), IFS (ECMWF IFS 0.25 degree, physical NWP), GFS (NCEP GFS), AIFS (ECMWF AIFS, machine-learned, deterministic), WN2 (Google WeatherNext 2, ensemble mean). Defaults to all of them.",
"type": "string"
},
"sample_pct": {
"description": "Percent of the world's locations to sample, from 0.1 to 100. Sampling is by stable hash bucket, so every location has an equal chance of being selected and the sample is unbiased by geography. The granularity is one bucket, which is 2.5 percent, and a request is rounded up to whole buckets; the response reports the sample_pct_effective actually served and the buckets drawn. Defaults to 5 percent for a global query, and to 100 when ctryid is given, because sampling exists to bound a world-sized scan and naming countries is already a restriction.",
"type": "string"
},
"seed": {
"description": "Any string. The sample of locations is drawn deterministically from it, so the same seed always returns the same locations. Every response reports the seed it used, including when one was not supplied, so any result can be reproduced exactly by sending that seed back.",
"type": "string"
},
"threshold": {
"description": "Precipitation threshold in mm per day for the 'ets' eval metric, ignored otherwise. A day counts as a wet-day event when the total is at or above this. Useful rungs are 0.2, 1.0, 5.0, 10.0, 25.0. (default: 1.0)",
"type": "string"
},
"ymd_end": {
"description": "Last day evaluated, YYYYMMDD, inclusive",
"type": "string"
},
"ymd_start": {
"description": "Inclusive day range as YYYYMMDD. Defaults to the 14 days ending yesterday; today is never included because it has not been verified yet. At most 180 days, which is also how much history the index retains.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [],
"type": "object"
}