metoffice.gov.uk
Met Office
Who runs Met Office, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest national weather service alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- National Weather Service
Measured from Met Office’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Met Office01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Met Office
Met Office metoffice.gov.uk
Met Office weather forecasts for the UK. World leading weather services for the public.
Wikidata: United Kingdom's national weather service
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Met Office tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
13 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Session recording
Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Met Office
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Met Office, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Met Office match.
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Weather Information - Environment Canada
Environment Canada's weather web site provides official weather warnings, current conditions, forecasts, and weather models, for public and marine areas in Canada. Canadian weather RADAR, tropical storm tracking, lightning activity, UV index, and AQHI index values also available.
Very close - 02
En — SMHI
Swedish administrative authority
Very close - 03
ECMWF | Advancing global NWP through international collaboration
ECMWF is the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. We are both a research institute and a 24/7 operational service, producing global numerical weather predictions and other data for our Member and Co-operating States and the broader community. The Centre has one of the largest supercomputer facilities and meteorological data archives in the world
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Homepage | World Meteorological Organization WMO
A specialized agency of the United Nations whose mandate covers weather, climate and water resources. The UN’s scientific voice on the state and behaviour of our atmosphere and climate.
Very close - 05
BBC - Home
The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.
Very close - 06
Meteored – Weather Forecast
Reliable forecasts anywhere! Explore Meteored’s interactive map with real-time rain radar, satellite views, ECMWF models, air quality, and hurricane tracking.
Very close - 07
Welcome to GOV.UK
GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.
Very close - 08
Local Weather Today & Live Weather Radar | WeatherBug
What's the weather at your location right now? Get your local forecast for today, tonight & tomorrow, chance of rain, live radar, lightning & pollen.
Very close - 09
Ventusky - Weather Forecast, Radar and Wind Maps | Ventusky
Live wind, rain, radar or temperature maps, more than 50 weather layers, detailed forecast for your place, data from the best weather forecast models.
Very close - 10
Yr
Weather forecast. Hourly, long term and precipitation map from NRK and Meteorologisk institutt.
Very close - 11
Home
About the weather firsthand. Website of the Hydrometcenter of Russia
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Welcome to BGS - British Geological Survey
geological survey
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Home - Office for National Statistics
The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.
Close - 14
Windy: Wind map & weather forecast
Weather radar, wind and waves forecast for kiters, surfers, paragliders, pilots, sailors and anyone else. Worldwide animated weather map, with easy to use layers and precise spot forecast. METAR, TAF and NOTAMs for any airport in the World. SYNOP codes from weather stations and buoys. Forecast models ECMWF, GFS, RRFS and NEMS
Very close - 15
Home page wetterzentrale.de
Webpage for finding all the weather information: weather maps, observations, diagrams and a weather forum.
Very close - 16
Home - National Audit Office
The UK’s independent public spending watchdog. We support Parliament to hold the government to account and we help improve public services.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST
NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
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NPS.gov Homepage (U.S. National Park Service)
The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage.
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National Physical Laboratory - impact from science - NPL
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK’s National Metrology Institute, providing the measurement capability that underpins the UK’s prosperity and quality of life.
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The Official Home Page of the United States Army
The latest news, images, videos, career information, and links from the U.S. Army
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Met Office’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Met Office uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Met Office adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 77 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Met Office’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Analytics
- Microsoft Clarity page source: clarity.ms/tag/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: TE-d7m91HRoMbJV_FzsBVss0m_8SR0mLaaeF8aef169Wse2k8xvNTw==
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 ip4:151.170.240.81 ip4:151.170.240.82 ip4:18.196.215.67 ip4:15…
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS use4.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=IaAE8Wc8lOVy7drQ
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=fCyieFbMOSTL+D/K0DokXpV2XIkGSpKCRtAb/qz…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: LR7Q3483mkrmLcJJZpzIbl48mNnTbBDVzjA3GqT3Q2M
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- jQuery · not on metoffice.gov.uk 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront 5/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on metoffice.gov.uk 4/20
- Adobe · not on metoffice.gov.uk 4/20
- DocuSign · not on metoffice.gov.uk 4/20
- Google Workspace · not on metoffice.gov.uk 4/20
- PHP · not on metoffice.gov.uk 4/20
- Google Ad Manager 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on metoffice.gov.uk 3/20
- nginx · not on metoffice.gov.uk 3/20
- Drupal · not on metoffice.gov.uk 3/20