Data Sources & Attribution

Last updated: March 2026

TempSureShip uses weather forecast and geocoding data from the following providers to evaluate shipping safety. No personally identifiable information is sent to any provider — only ZIP/postal codes or derived latitude/longitude coordinates.

Provider	Service	License
Open-Meteo	Weather forecasts, geocoding	CC BY 4.0
WeatherAPI.com	Weather forecasts	Commercial (Pro plan)
National Weather Service (NWS)	Weather forecasts (US backup)	US Government public domain
Zippopotam.us	Postal code geocoding	Free / open

Open-Meteo

Weather forecast and geocoding data provided by Open-Meteo.

Data is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Open-Meteo sources data from national weather services including NOAA (US), DWD (Germany), Météo-France, and others. Full data source details are available on the Open-Meteo documentation page.

WeatherAPI.com

Weather forecast data powered by WeatherAPI.com. Used as the primary weather data source for production forecasts.

National Weather Service (NWS)

US weather forecast data from the National Weather Service (NOAA). Used as a backup source for US destinations when other providers are unavailable. NWS data is in the public domain as a work of the US federal government.

Zippopotam.us

Postal code to coordinates lookup provided by Zippopotam.us. Used to convert ZIP/postal codes into geographic coordinates for weather forecast queries.