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Data sources

The reviewed external references behind place, time, astronomy and weather information.

GeoNames

GeoNames cities15000 and country reference files supply place names, coordinates, population, administrative areas and time-zone identifiers under CC BY 4.0.

GeoNames data export

IANA Time Zone Database

IANA tzdb supplies canonical zone identifiers and civil UTC-offset rules. Runtime compatibility is checked before future changes are published.

IANA time-zone releases

Unicode CLDR

Unicode CLDR supplies reviewed English display names for countries, currencies and languages under the Unicode license.

Unicode CLDR

US Naval Observatory

The USNO Astronomical Applications API supplies daily Sun and Moon events when the governed source integration is enabled and the requested date is supported.

USNO data services

Open-Meteo

Open-Meteo supplies modeled current, hourly and daily forecasts. The free endpoint is used only while the service has no advertising or subscriptions; a commercial customer endpoint and key are required before monetization.

Open-Meteo forecast documentation

WeatherAPI.com

WeatherAPI.com supplies current, hourly and daily forecast data through a server-side integration. Its free plan permits commercial and non-commercial use, includes a three-day forecast, and is credited on forecast pages.

WeatherAPI.com documentation