KNMI

Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut

About this app

You can do this with the KNMI app:
• Receive hazardous weather alerts with advice on what to expect and how to prepare
• The hourly weather forecast for your places for today and tomorrow
• The weather forecast per day up to 14 days ahead
• View rain with the precipitation radar
• View the risk of skin damage with the sun power forecast
• Sunrise and sunset times
• Climate information with the weather forecast (temperature)
• See where code red, orange or yellow applies in the Netherlands
• Receive alerts for earthquakes in the Netherlands
• Maps with measurements from KNMI stations combined with citizen measurements. View the current temperature for your places. For example, you can see that it is warmer in the city

Accessibility and sustainability
When designing and developing this app, special attention was paid to accessibility, user-friendliness, sustainability and quality. We have taken into account a broad target group including possible limitations. The app's carbon footprint has been kept as small as possible by applying the rules of Green Software Engineering. Furthermore, the app is ad-free and the source code will be freely available in 2025.

About the KNMI
The climate is changing, the weather is becoming more erratic, the ground is shaking. Keeping the Netherlands safe and livable is becoming increasingly challenging. The KNMI provides society with independent knowledge, advice and warnings about risks in the field of weather, climate and seismology, day and night.

Ratings and reviews

I love the app and it shows weather information while being privacy-friendly! It's great that there finally are widgets, but they still need to be optimised more. I hope they will take an example from Samsung's weather app and their widget. I.e., the 5x2 (width x height) widget size leaves a lot of empty space in the bottom of the widget. It could be filled with some future weather predictions, but currently it is not.

I love it! However, I think a huge downside is that it is not an option (as far as I could find) to set the language to English. For an app that claims to be accessible that is one huge downside, especially since people living here who cannot speak Dutch yet, often are the ones that miss all the warnings for dangerous weather..

This app is very useful in many ways. The only downside is that when a weather code is given the map is colored in that code color, at that moment you can not check the radar anymore, and i have to fall back to buienradar.nl again. So, unless i missed that view somewhere while code is raised, the app is nice to have, just bring back an option to view the radar images while a code color is active, than it would be perfect.

What’s new

• Meldingen voor gevaarlijk weer zijn verbeterd
• Advies over wat te verwachten en hoe je je kunt voorbereiden op gevaarlijk weer
• Een overzicht waar in Nederland code rood, oranje of geel geldt
• Meldingen voor aardbevingen in Nederland
• Kaarten met metingen van KNMI-stations gecombineerd met burgermetingen
In deze versie zijn nieuwe kaarten toegevoegd met metingen voor windsnelheid en relatieve luchtvochtigheid.