National Weather Service (NWS) in Home Assistant
nws
part of Home Assistant since 0.99
National Weather Service (NWS) is an official Home Assistant integration for Weather. Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Cloud, polling – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Online service
- Installations
- 10,453 (1.5 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Weather
- Provides
- Diagnostics, Sensor, Weather
- Maintained by
- @MatthewFlamm, @kamiyo
- Python packages
pynws[retry]==1.8.2
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for National Weather Service (NWS).
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Known issues and fixes
1 open issues and 0 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for National Weather Service (NWS) in the Home Assistant issue tracker.
Open
- open Reported problem #160332
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 15, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration