We are thrilled to announce the major new release of the Visual Crossing Query Builder, our industry-unique, powerful, yet easy-to-use, tool for accessing global weather data. This new version has been fundamentally re-engineered for unprecedented ease-of-use, transparency, and developer-focused power—cementing its status as the ultimate solution for every data scientist, analyst, and developer. Whether you want to download a weather dataset for your desktop, bulk data for a warehouse or build an API Query for your application or ETL Process, our Query Builder makes your world a whole lot easier.
Our focus with this release was on an enhanced UI experience, transparent usage, and tools that go beyond simple data retrieval. Getting the exact weather data you need for your projects, reports, or applications has never been this fast or flexible. From first-time visitors looking for data to the advanced coder, this tool was designed for you.
What’s New and Improved: Streamlined Workflow and Advanced Developer Tools
The latest version of the Query Builder introduces core enhancements designed to streamline your workflow and unlock advanced data capabilities:
Enhanced User Experience & Transparency
- Enhanced UI Experience: Makes building weather queries easier than ever. A cleaner, more intuitive interface that simplifies every step of the query process.
- Simplified Download Flow: Get your weather data instantly with more transparent account usage limits and cost details, giving you full control over your budget.
- Improved Element Picker: Faster, cleaner experience for selecting elements, now featuring data dictionary descriptions, units of measure, API property names, and category groupings.
- Improved Grid View: Enhanced grid view usability, including the ability to pick elements in place directly on the grid.
- New Custom Data Dashboard: Create custom data views and layouts for downloading and sharing, tailoring your data presentation to your exact needs.
Developer & Automation Power
- Interactive AI Code Generator: Use the interactive AI Code Generator to write code/scripts with ready-to-run code to query the Weather API, dramatically accelerating your development.
- New Data Format: Introduces the FlatJSON format for lighter-weight and easier-to-parse JSON data structures, saving developer time on data cleaning.
- Enhanced Editing & Scheduling: Enhanced editing of saved datasets including the ability to copy save dataset objects, and enhanced scheduling with multiple execution times.
Statistical & Climate Analysis
- Updated Statistics: Summarize decades of data, calculate frost dates, and utilize a new selector interface to build the statistical grid in a more predictable format.
Core Query Builder Functionality: The Power You Rely On
The Query Builder continues to deliver the robust capabilities our users rely on every day:
Data Coverage & Access
- Build queries to retrieve weather data for any location on Earth.
- Access past (back to January 1, 1970), current, and future weather data.
- View data by days, hours, and even minutes for high-resolution analysis.
- Choose from more than 100 weather elements.
- Ability to import your own location lists and easily download huge weather datasets.
- View and download official Weather Events and Alerts.
Integration & Workflow
- Instantly create query URLs to load weather data into other tools or apps.
- Download weather data to import into databases and analysis tools.
- Schedule weather queries to run for you at preset times.
- Save datasets for future use.
- Preview for free enhanced data and features that require higher account levels.
Climate & Statistical Analysis
- Statistical summaries provide climate statistics to monitor typical weather by day, week, month or year.
- Identify nearby weather stations on a map view.
Ready to build faster and analyze smarter?
Discover the power of the new Visual Crossing Query Builder today!