Weather forecasting

Weather forecasting - application of science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere for a given location and time. Article “Weather forecasting” in English Wikipedia has 94 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 129 references and 29 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Weather forecasting”, its content was written by 528 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2018 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1423 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8076 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3883 in July 2003
• Global: #1647 in January 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #28901 in June 2008
• Global: #14915 in October 2018

There are 48 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Weather forecasting		93.9591
2	Malay (ms) Peramalan cuaca		93.3333
3	Serbian (sr) Временска прогноза		82.9833
4	Catalan (ca) Predicció meteorològica		77.8584
5	Italian (it) Previsione meteorologica		76.5583
6	German (de) Wettervorhersage		65.2198
7	Croatian (hr) Vremenska prognoza		45.957
8	Japanese (ja) 天気予報		44.6473
9	Chinese (zh) 天气预报		40.1905
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Vêrvarsling		38.6183

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Weather forecasting" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Weather forecasting		4 394 567
2	Japanese (ja) 天気予報		1 241 583
3	Spanish (es) Pronóstico del tiempo		1 181 784
4	German (de) Wettervorhersage		831 723
5	Portuguese (pt) Previsão do tempo		556 775
6	Polish (pl) Prognoza pogody		437 381
7	Russian (ru) Прогноз погоды		375 862
8	Italian (it) Previsione meteorologica		256 897
9	Chinese (zh) 天气预报		256 680
10	French (fr) Prévision météorologique		193 088

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Weather forecasting" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Weather forecasting		7 571
2	Vietnamese (vi) Dự báo thời tiết		2 656
3	Japanese (ja) 天気予報		2 242
4	German (de) Wettervorhersage		1 964
5	Russian (ru) Прогноз погоды		527
6	Spanish (es) Pronóstico del tiempo		487
7	Chinese (zh) 天气预报		484
8	Korean (ko) 일기예보		314
9	Polish (pl) Prognoza pogody		301
10	French (fr) Prévision météorologique		283

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Weather forecasting" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Weather forecasting		528
2	German (de) Wettervorhersage		231
3	Japanese (ja) 天気予報		141
4	Russian (ru) Прогноз погоды		84
5	French (fr) Prévision météorologique		77
6	Hebrew (he) חיזוי מזג אוויר		76
7	Italian (it) Previsione meteorologica		69
8	Polish (pl) Prognoza pogody		69
9	Spanish (es) Pronóstico del tiempo		59
10	Portuguese (pt) Previsão do tempo		45

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Weather forecasting" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Serbian (sr) Временска прогноза		4
2	Catalan (ca) Predicció meteorològica		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Veterprognozo		1
4	Japanese (ja) 天気予報		1
5	Uzbek (uz) Ob-havoni oldindan aytish		1
6	Arabic (ar) توقع جوي		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Hava proqnozu		0
8	Belarusian (be) Прагноз надвор’я		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Прогноза за времето		0
10	Czech (cs) Předpověď počasí		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Weather forecasting" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 天気予報		1 863
2	English (en) Weather forecasting		1 423
3	French (fr) Prévision météorologique		438
4	Ukrainian (uk) Прогноз погоди		356
5	Russian (ru) Прогноз погоды		351
6	German (de) Wettervorhersage		344
7	Chinese (zh) 天气预报		270
8	Turkish (tr) Hava tahmini		252
9	Hebrew (he) חיזוי מזג אוויר		222
10	Persian (fa) پیش‌بینی وضع هوا		203

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic توقع جوي
az	Azerbaijani Hava proqnozu
be	Belarusian Прагноз надвор’я
bg	Bulgarian Прогноза за времето
ca	Catalan Predicció meteorològica
cs	Czech Předpověď počasí
da	Danish Vejrudsigt
de	German Wettervorhersage
en	English Weather forecasting
eo	Esperanto Veterprognozo
es	Spanish Pronóstico del tiempo
et	Estonian Ilmaennustus
eu	Basque Eguraldi iragarpen
fa	Persian پیش‌بینی وضع هوا
fi	Finnish Sään ennustaminen
fr	French Prévision météorologique
he	Hebrew חיזוי מזג אוויר
hi	Hindi मौसम का पूर्वानुमान
hr	Croatian Vremenska prognoza
hy	Armenian Եղանակի կանխատեսում
id	Indonesian Prakiraan cuaca
it	Italian Previsione meteorologica
ja	Japanese 天気予報
kk	Kazakh Ауа райын болжау
ko	Korean 일기예보
lt	Lithuanian Orų prognozė
ms	Malay Peramalan cuaca
nl	Dutch Weersvoorspelling
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Vêrvarsling
no	Norwegian Værvarsling
pl	Polish Prognoza pogody
pt	Portuguese Previsão do tempo
ro	Romanian Prognoză meteorologică
ru	Russian Прогноз погоды
sh	Serbo-Croatian Vremenska prognoza
simple	Simple English Weather forecast
sk	Slovak Predpoveď počasia
sr	Serbian Временска прогноза
sv	Swedish Väderprognos
ta	Tamil வானிலை முன்னறிவிப்பு
th	Thai การพยากรณ์อากาศ
tr	Turkish Hava tahmini
uk	Ukrainian Прогноз погоди
ur	Urdu موسم کی پیش قیاسی
uz	Uzbek Ob-havoni oldindan aytish
vi	Vietnamese Dự báo thời tiết
zh	Chinese 天气预报
zhminnan	Min Nan Thiⁿ-khì ī-pò

Best Rank

English: #28901 06.2008

Global: #14915 10.2018

Best Rank

English: #3883 07.2003

Global: #1647 01.2012

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