Weather Underground Overview
Pro stress-test →Weather Underground is an American commercial weather service providing real-time weather information over the Internet, delivering weather reports for most major cities globally on its website and providing local weather reports for newspapers and third-party sites through data sourced from the National Weather Service and over 250,000 personal weather stations. The company is trusted by hundreds of millions of monthly active users via its digital properties at wunderground.com.
Strategic Profile
Pro stress-test →As of February 2024, Weather Underground and its parent company, The Weather Company, became controlled by Francisco Partners. The Weather Company, the world's most accurate weather forecaster and leader in data-driven media solutions, operates Weather Underground as a core digital property alongside The Weather Channel app and weather.com. The company is innovating at the intersection of AI, data science and consumer behavior, modernizing its ad tech stack and commercializing new consumer membership products.
Competitive Landscape
Pro stress-test →OpenWeather, AccuWeather, and WeatherBug are primary competitors. Weather Underground differentiates through its network of community-contributed personal weather stations, enabling hyperlocal forecast accuracy. It competes with larger incumbent technology platforms (Google Weather, Apple Weather) on free consumer channels and specialized weather data providers (Spire Global, PlanetiQ) on enterprise data licensing. The company maintains unique positioning as a consumer-first platform with enterprise data licensing and media distribution capabilities.
Industry Context
Weather Underground operates in Weather data and forecasting services.
Key facts
Founded: 1995 · Headquarters: San Francisco, US · Employees: 51 (as of December 2025) · Revenue: $6.8M–$12M (unverified; recent sources conflict)