# NWS Point Metadata Lookup

> NWS Point Metadata Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from fittings.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the National Weather Service office, grid X/Y coordinates, timezone, forecast zones, county zones, and radar station for a given US latitude/longitude coordinate.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fittings.sh/v1/nws/point-metadata
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/nws-point-metadata-lookup-c2afc294
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_74GBR3yMsZlJ-X4zV2qwx

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability nws-point-metadata-lookup-c2afc294
```

Example prompt: What's the NWS office, forecast zone, county zone, and radar station for the coordinate 40.7128° N, 74.0060° W in New York City?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to resolve a US coordinate to NWS-specific identifiers (office, grid, zones, radar) as a prerequisite for fetching NWS forecast data or routing weather alerts. Prefer this over general geolocation endpoints when you specifically need NWS grid metadata rather than address or administrative boundary lookups.

## Known failure modes

- Coordinate is outside the US or its territories — NWS only covers US locations, returns an error
- Invalid or out-of-range latitude/longitude values
- NWS upstream API unavailability causing failure
- Coastal or offshore coordinates with no NWS grid coverage

## How this service works

The National Weather Service office, grid X/Y, timezone, forecast and county zones and radar station for a US coordinate.

## Output

Returns structured NWS metadata for the given coordinate including the responsible NWS office identifier, grid X and Y values for the point, the local timezone, the forecast zone ID, the county zone ID, and the nearest radar station identifier.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "lat",
      "lon"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "lat": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "lon": {
       "type": "number"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/nws-point-metadata-lookup-c2afc294/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from fittings.sh](https://www.zero.xyz/host/fittings.sh/llms.txt)