Units & language
Choose metric, Metric UK or imperial readings and one of twenty-two languages for your public site.
Your public site can show readings in metric, Metric UK or imperial units and speak one of twenty-two languages. Both settings live on your site's Content page, under Localization, and apply to your live site as soon as you save.
Units
Pick the unit system used for everything on your public site:
| System | Temperature | Wind | Pressure | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metric | °C | km/h | hPa | mm |
| Metric UK | °C | mph | hPa | mm |
| Imperial | °F | mph | inHg | in |
Metric UK is the mix UK forecasts and most UK hobby stations use: Celsius, hectopascals (millibars) and millimetres, with wind speeds in miles per hour. Wind run and lightning distance follow the wind unit (miles), snow depth follows the rain unit (centimetres) and cloud base is shown in metres.
The choice applies everywhere: the overview tiles, charts, records, the forecast, the almanac, the climate reports, the diary and the monthly summary email. Three details follow from it:
- Alert thresholds follow your units. When you set up alerts, you enter thresholds in your site's units (on a Metric UK site, a wind alert in mph and a rain alert in mm), and alert emails use them too.
- CSV exports include both systems. Your data exports carry each reading in metric and imperial columns, so switching later loses nothing.
- Particulates stay metric. Air-quality readings (PM1, PM2.5, PM10) are always in µg/m³ in both systems, as they are everywhere.
US stations default to imperial
When you first connect a station located in the United States (or a US territory), your site starts in imperial automatically; everywhere else starts in metric. This happens only on the first connect and never overrides a choice you have made yourself. You can switch systems at any time.
Language
Your public site can be shown in:
- English
- Bahasa Melayu (Malay)
- Català (Catalan)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Deutsch (German)
- Español (Spanish)
- Filipino
- Français (French)
- Hrvatski (Croatian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- Polski (Polish)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Română (Romanian)
- Slovenčina (Slovak)
- Slovenščina (Slovenian)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
Every visitor-facing label is translated: tabs, tiles, charts, the forecast, warnings, the almanac, the sky events and the cookie-consent banner. Dates and times are formatted the way that language expects (for example, Dutch sites show day-month dates and a 24-hour clock). Your own text, such as the tagline, footer line and About page, is shown as you wrote it.
What stays in English
The language setting covers your public weather site. Your dashboard and the emails Pro Weather sends you are in English.
Every language is included on the Pro plan and during the free trial.
Time zone
There is nothing to configure: your site's clock follows your station's time zone, discovered from WeatherLink or the vendor cloud when you connect. For pushed hardware you pick the time zone yourself on the Connection page, in the station card under the upload URL, next to its name and coordinates. Daily rain totals, the almanac's days and sunrise and sunset all use station-local time, so a rainy evening never spills into the wrong day. When a day should end is a separate choice: see the weather day.
Next steps
- Set up email alerts with thresholds in your units
- Customize the design
- History, records & the almanac