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The weather map: all three models at once

Met Office, European, American side by side across United Kingdom.Live rain radar →
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Will it rain today? Ask three forecasts and you can get three different answers. The Met Office, the European model and the American model each read the British weather their own way. We put all three side by side for every town in the UK, so you can see where they agree and where a shower is genuinely up in the air.

Next 14 hours

consensus of the three models

14-day forecast

where the models agree, and where they split

Which forecast is most accurate in the UK?

CheckWeather Score — graded against the weather that actually happened
ProviderCheckWeather Score🌡 Temp💨 Wind🌧 RainRun by
European logo
European ★ Best
Behind Apple Weather, Windy
91
/100rank #1
91±0.5°C97±1.0 mph8793% hitECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather ForecastsReading, United Kingdom
Met Office logo
Met Office
Behind BBC Weather
85
/100rank #2
88±0.6°C96±1.3 mph7586% hitMet Office (United Kingdom)Exeter, United Kingdom
American logo
American
Behind Windy & many free apps
82
/100rank #3
81±1.0°C93±2.3 mph7586% hitNOAA / NCEP (United States)College Park, Maryland, USA

The CheckWeather Score blends temperature, wind and rain accuracy — each measured against ERA5 (the recorded weather) over the last 30 days across 1880 cities. Lower error means a higher score. The apps you know (AccuWeather, Apple Weather, The Weather Channel) are built on these models.

Popular weather apps — and what powers them

Real app-store ratings, plus the forecast each one runs on
App🍎 App Store▶️ Google PlayForecast source
Apple Weather logoApple Weather
built-iniOS onlyApple's own blend (ex–Dark Sky)
AccuWeather logoAccuWeather
4.61.5M ratings3.52.6M ratingsAccuWeather's own forecast
The Weather Channel logoThe Weather Channel
4.85.9M ratings4.63.6M ratingsIBM / TWC forecast
Windy.com logoWindy.com
4.878K ratings4.7812K ratingsShows ECMWF · GFS · ICON
Met Office logoMet Office
4.6616K ratings4.3130K ratingsMet Office (UKMO)
BBC Weather logoBBC Weather
4.61.2M ratings4.5399K ratingsDTN / MeteoGroup

App-store stars measure the app experience (design, features, reliability) — not forecast accuracy. For accuracy, see the model scoreboard above. Ratings from the US & UK App Store and Google Play, July 2026; they drift over time. Apple Weather is built into iOS, with no separate store rating.

The forecasts Britons check

The Met Office runs Britain's own open model, so its data sits right in the comparison above. BBC Weather and AccuWeather keep theirs closed, so we link you to them. Good news: BBC is moving back to the Met Office model, so it'll join the comparison too.

Every forecast runs on a model. We show you three, side by side.

When the Met Office, European and American models agree, the forecast is solid. When they split, sometimes by 8° on the same afternoon, it's genuinely uncertain, and no single app will tell you that. We turn that disagreement into a plain-English confidence score.

See the uncertainty

Three models, one view. Where they disagree, you know to take the forecast with a pinch of salt.

The models the pros use

ECMWF and GFS are the two global heavyweights every forecaster starts from, plus Met Office. No black boxes.

Honest & sourced

We show real, open model data and cite it. The closed apps can't show theirs, which is why AI assistants can cite us, not them.

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