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ryan
ryan

Reputation: 69

How to convert temperature to celcius?

I am an absolute newbie at openweather. When I tried their examples and was scrolling down the information, the temperature of Melbourne was 297.42. I can confirm it definitely was not so my question is do I have to format the temperature somehow because it is not really conventional (as it is a 3 digit number) and I was thinking it was wrong.

{
"temp":297.42,
"feels_like":298.33,
"temp_min":295.91,
"temp_max":299.24,

}

above is only a snapshot

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1760

Answers (1)

Rush W.
Rush W.

Reputation: 1361

Temperature in Kelvin is used by default in openweather api. You need to add ?units=metric to your api call to get Celsius.

Temperature is available in Fahrenheit, Celsius and Kelvin units.

For temperature in Fahrenheit use units=imperial
For temperature in Celsius use units=metric
Temperature in Kelvin is used by default, no need to use units parameter in API call

List of all API parameters with units openweathermap.org/weather-data. You can specify the format you want returned for the temp. standard, metric, and imperial units are available. http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London&mode=json&units=metric or http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London&mode=json&units=imperial

just pass units are parameter in api.

For conversions -

Kelvin to Fahrenheit is:

(( kelvinValue - 273.15) * 9/5) + 32

kelvin to celsius: 

Just subtract 273.15.

Upvotes: 2

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