# Weather Station

> Weather Station with temperature, rainfall, pressure, humidity, sensors and maps

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.arf.weatherstation](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.arf.weatherstation)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.arf.weatherstation`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Dromosys
- **Category:** WEATHER
- **Downloads:** 7,794,785
- **Rating:** 3.42 / 5 (18,547 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.7.8
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-09
- **First published:** 2011-12-29
- **Publisher country:** AU
- **Size:** 12 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arf.weatherstation)
- **Website:** [https://www.dromosys.com](https://www.dromosys.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.dromosys.com/privacy/](https://www.dromosys.com/privacy/)

## Description

**Weather Station** is a feature-rich Android app for monitoring local weather conditions and personal weather-station data. View temperature, rainfall, pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, solar radiation, sunrise and sunset, forecasts, maps, and historical data with graphs.

The app supports Android sensors, GPS and Wi-Fi location updates, indoor sensors, dark mode, metric and imperial units, lock-screen and home-screen widgets, and talking weather announcements. It integrates with services including Ambient Weather, Davis, NOAA, OpenWeatherMap, Yahoo Weather, BOM Australia, Netatmo, Ecowitt, Arduino, Mesowest, PWS and ClientRaw.

## Rankings

- #17,207 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS`
- `android.permission.SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE`
- `com.arf.weatherstation.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`

## Review summary

Users praise the app for accurate data and a clean UI, especially for monitoring Personal Weather Stations and global conditions. However, recurring issues include inaccurate temperature readings, unreliable widget updates, intrusive ads, frequent bugs and startup prompts, and station-management problems.

### Pros

- Highly accurate and reliable weather data across locations.
- Good integration with Personal Weather Stations (PWS) and a sense of having your own weather station.
- Clear, readable UI and well-presented data.
- Fast data acquisition and update flow, useful for planning and checking global conditions.
- Responsive developer support noted by some users (helpful when issues arise).

### Cons

- Inconsistent and often inaccurate temperature readings across locations (severe off-temps reported).
- Widget frequently fails to auto-update or stays out-of-sync.
- Ads persist even for subscribers; intrusive monetization or ad downloads.
- Frequent bugs and instability: crashes, startup problems, and misleading forecasts (e.g., incorrect daily forecasts).
- Nagging prompts to enable or configure Weather Station/Custom mode and issues with station management (adding/overriding stations).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.arf.weatherstation)