Download websites that use AccuWeather

About AccuWeather

A forecast is one of the few things a visitor comes back for daily without being prompted, which is why publishers pay somebody to supply one. What we detect is weather content served from AccuWeather and embedded on a page as a forecast panel, a radar map or a script that pulls conditions for the visitor's location. Behind that embed sits a commercial supply arrangement with a data provider rather than a downloaded package.

AccuWeather predates the web by a wide margin, having been founded in 1962 as a forecasting business selling to broadcasters, utilities and airlines. The web embed is a later channel for the same product. Licensing is Proprietary, and there is no free self-hosted edition to muddy the picture, so a detection is reasonably strong evidence of a paying or partner relationship rather than a hobbyist copying a snippet.

The distinction shapes who the sites are. Weather content clusters on local news publishers, regional media groups, travel and tourism sites, event and venue pages, agriculture and marine operators, and municipal portals. A site carrying a forecast is usually a site whose audience is geographically anchored, because a national or global readership has no use for one local forecast. As of October 2026 we detect AccuWeather on 721 sites, and the shape of the list is more informative than its size.

A weather panel is also a third-party dependency that a publisher accepted knowingly. The forecast arrives from somebody else's servers, on somebody else's uptime, inside a page the publisher is measured on, and editorial teams accept that trade because a daily-return feature earns its place. Sites willing to make that trade for weather are usually willing to make it for other embedded content too, which is why this list behaves as a proxy for a wider disposition towards syndicated widgets.

Detection has real limits worth stating. Weather content is frequently rendered server side and cached, or proxied through the publisher's own domain, in which case the provider's fingerprint never reaches the page we fetch. Some large media groups negotiate white-label feeds precisely so their forecast pages look like their own product. Our figure should be read as sites that expose the integration in their front end markup, not as a complete customer base.

For a researcher the useful output is the population itself. Competing weather data vendors use it to find publishers to displace and to see which segments have already been won. Media analysts use it to map which local outlets belong to which group, since a shared embed configuration often gives away shared ownership or a shared CMS. Partnership teams use it to find inventory sitting next to a feature that brings readers back daily. None of those questions can be answered by checking one domain at a time, which is what the downloadable export exists for.