Metar USA
Weather
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Metar USA brings you the METAR observations of more than two thousand reporting
stations across the United States, read straight from the official Aviation
Weather Center (NOAA) source.
The app opens on the full station list with the raw report, the observation time
in UTC and the ICAO identifier coloured by flight category: green VFR, blue
MVFR, red IFR, purple LIFR. One glance tells you where you can fly.
Tap a station and the report is decoded item by item: temperature and dewpoint,
wind direction and speed with gusts, visibility, altimeter setting in inches of
mercury and hectopascals, field elevation and cloud layers in METAR notation.
• Every US reporting station, refreshed on launch and on pull to refresh
• Search by ICAO identifier
• Map of all stations — tap a pin to read the report
• Home Screen widget for the station you choose, in three sizes
• Apple Watch app: your station plus the ten closest to you, ranked by distance
• The observation time is highlighted when the report is no longer current
• No account, no advertising, no data collected
Data comes from the Aviation Weather Center (NOAA), exactly as published at the
source. Metar USA is a quick reference tool: always rely on official sources and
the required aeronautical documentation for flight planning.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app’s overall rating was recently reset.
The weather service the app relied on was retired, and reports had stopped
updating. This version moves to the current Aviation Weather Center interfaces:
observations from more than 2,500 US stations work again.
• Station identifier coloured by flight category: green VFR, blue MVFR,
red IFR, purple LIFR
• Observation time in UTC, highlighted when the report is no longer current
• Altimeter setting shown in both inches of mercury and hectopascals
• Cloud layers on a single line in METAR notation (e.g. SCT016 BKN033 BKN140)
• Search by ICAO identifier or by the text of the report
• Pull down to refresh
• Rebuilt widget: refreshes reliably and now comes in the large size too
• On Apple Watch the picker puts the ten closest stations at the top with their
distance — no more scrolling an alphabetical list of thousands of airports
• When data cannot be loaded the app explains why instead of showing an empty
screen
• Fixed a few widget crashes
The developer, Emanuele Chiavelli, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Emanuele Chiavelli
- Size
- 3.6 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.6 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Emanuele Chiavelli