A Year of Growth on the Synoptic Platform

Between October 2025 and September 2026, the Synoptic Weather API answered more than 10 billion requests.

That number is a major milestone, and a representation of something much bigger than just 10 billion data queries. Behind every weather API request is a forecaster checking conditions, a utility operator monitoring wind speeds near power lines, emergency managers tracking humidity in a fire-prone area, or a model pulling observations to power smarter predictions.

This massive volume of requests shows more teams than ever are building applications and improving their operations by using real-time environmental data from the Synoptic platform for essential work. This incredible growth tells us that users rely on this data and are utilizing it at a rapid pace. We’re proud to provide the data services and put in the work to prepare the platform for the next 10 billion requests.

Who Is Driving the Growth?

Synoptic’s growth isn’t tied to a single customer or a single use case. It reflects teams across industries choosing the platform as their source for real-time weather observations:

• Forecasting and weather services: forecasters and weather companies using live observations to create and verify forecasts and power their own products.
• AI and machine learning: teams using quality-controlled historical and real-time observations to train and run weather models.
• Energy and utilities: utilities tracking fire weather situations and monitoring conditions near their infrastructure to prepare for and respond to severe weather.
• Emergency management: emergency managers tracking conditions during floods, storms, and wildfires to guide warnings and response.
• Transportation: road, aviation, and maritime operators monitoring conditions to plan routes and respond to hazardous weather.

That range of users reflects the range of tools the Synoptic platform offers. The Data Viewer gives users instant visualization and context for real-time weather observations. At the heart of the platform is the Synoptic Weather API, with vast amounts of weather data, both real-time and historical. Additionally, the Weather API offers value-added capabilities like Statistics & Percentiles, Push Streaming, and Precipitation Services, so teams can build real-time weather data into their own applications in whatever way their use case requires. 

Building a Weather API to Scale: A Year of Innovation

Handling over 10 billion queries in 12 months required continuous improvement and innovation throughout the year. Our team is constantly optimizing the Synoptic platform for speed, reliability, and scale to better support growing demand. 

Improving the platform never stops. We’re continuing to develop smarter quality control, faster data delivery, and new ways to put real-time observations in context using advanced data science, so every request returns accurate, reliable data the moment it’s needed. 

On to the Next 10 Billion

Thank you to every developer, researcher, forecaster, and operator who relies on the Synoptic platform. Your requests are why we keep adding stations, sharpening quality control, improving the platform, and making the data easier to reach.

Synoptic looks forward to supporting the next 10 billion requests and many more to come. 

See what the platform can do for your team: try the interactive Weather API demo or start a free trial.